Emerging from lurkdom to say I've had exactly the same problem. I can get The Bat to do incremental backups automatically, but not full backup. In my case, I just resigned myself to doing a full backup manually every week or so.
Another Mark Thursday, July 22, 2010, 4:01:14 PM, you wrote: > Fellow list members, > Ok, I've looked through the archives for about an hour now and > can't find an answer that works. The problem has to do with the > filename used when TB! performs an automatic backup. I have the > backup filename as "TBbackup.tbk" and it will save the backup > properly the first time I run the backup. However, subsequent > backups either manually started or started by TB! result in an error > message because the filename already exists. Well, yes, that's true > because the first backup was saved to that filename. > Can I get TB! to automatically overwrite the old backup *OR* can a > new backup filename be automatically created every time the > autobackup runs? Some suggestions I found in the archives claimed > the current date and time could be used to generate a filename but I > never could get any of those to work. Usually a filename using a > macro string would consist of the characters in the string but not the actual > date and/or time. ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
