Jim Your suggestion is a good one, however I am wondering if it could be enhanced so as to preserve the last 'N' runs, or maybe the time & date could somehow be incorporated so that a series of backups could be preserved. In the later case it would be the resposibility of the user to delete an excessive number of backup's. I don't know what features are available in BAT files in Windows...I suppose it's documented somewhere.
Probably some DXBase user is up to date on this, or has a better solution. Ron, N5IN Jim McDonald wrote: >A few months ago we had a discussion about using a DOS batch file to backup >DXbase files. If you've upgraded to DXbase 2004, don't forget to update it >with the new path for DXbase 2004 instead of 2003. > >BTW, if you don't have one and want to try it, mine looks like this: > >Rem Copy all important DXBase files to a Mapped Drive H: >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.CO" H:\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.mdb" H:\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.ini" H:\DXbBak\ >copy C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts H:\DXbBak >Rem Copy all important DXBase files to another Hard Drive on my system >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.CO" >D:\Backups\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.mdb" >D:\Backups\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.ini" >D:\Backups\DXbBak\ >copy C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts D:\Backups\DXbBak\ > >I have a shortcut icon on the desktop and run it with DXbase shutdown. >Takes just a few seconds to run. > >Jim N7US > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > >
