Hi On Wednesday 7 March 2007 at 12:53:21 PM, in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian wrote:
> I am using The Bat Pro version 3.98.4 under xp and I would like to > make a weekly backup of my mail data to a file named: > D:\Backup\ApplicationData\PCName%Date="YYYY-MM-DD"-%Time="HH-MM-SS".tbk > However, this seems too long to paste into the dialog box in Options \ > Preferences \ System \ Autobackup and if I instead browse to the > folder and then paste > PCName%Date="YYYY-MM-DD"-%Time="HH-MM-SS".tbk > into the file name box I get an error message "Invalid File Name" > How can I date and time stamp my automatic backups? If the backup is *weekly* do you really require time as well as date stamping? You could use a short path/filename & automatically rename/move it using a batch file (others here can help more than I can with this). -- Best regards, MFPA Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it Using The Bat! v3.80.06 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
