Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Monday, June 2, 2008, 4:12:06 AM, you wrote:
JSL> Hello Dwight, JSL> Sunday, June 1, 2008, 4:43:05 PM, you wrote: DC>> On Sunday, June 1, 2008, 3:46:35 PM, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: >>> What won't work? Reading mail? Are you confirming the machine is >>> essentially locked during the backup? DC>> No. The machine isn't tied up at all. You just can't get the bat do do DC>> a backup and do other things at the same time. Makes sense to me. JSL> OK. Thank you Dwight and Roelof for the information. I never tried to JSL> do anything else with the machine except work in TB while the backup JSL> was in progress. JSL> Now, if I may beg the audience's indulgence again on this topic - I JSL> currently have the "standard" backup (not an 'update' backup) JSL> configured to create a backup file called JSL> F:\autobackup-%DATE(yyyy-mm-dd)-%TIME(hh-mm-ss).tbk. I assume this JSL> would cause a backup file to be created with the filename JSL> F:\autobackup-2008-06-02-xx-xx-xx.tbk with the Xs replaced with the JSL> time of creation. My F: drive holds all of my machine's backups. JSL> Because of this discussion I looked at my F: drive and noticed that JSL> the most recent TB! backup file was named: F:\autobackup.tbk with an JSL> OS timestamp of 03/25/2008. The backup which caused me to start this JSL> discussion was run a couple of weeks ago and was allowed to run to JSL> completion. But where did it go? And as you can see, the last backup JSL> file is called simply autobackup.tbk without any time/date info as JSL> part of the filename. JSL> I'd like to experiment with this file naming protocol and find out JSL> where the last backup went. Is there a way to manually start TB!'s JSL> backup at will? While you await an expert reply, I do manual backups using: Tools Backup Browse for file etc. Select all accounts OK -- Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using The Bat! v4.0.24 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ...Has anyone seen the `ANY' key? ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
