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Robert Manshack Member Offline Posts: 31 Joined: Jun 26^th, 2014	Controlling Backups Jul 14^th, 2014 at 9:05pm	Print Post
	Other than BACKUP ON INTERVAL, is there any clean way of creating backups automatically? I don't like how with BACKUP ON INTERVAL there's no control over where the backups go to, whether or not I want to overwrite the existing backup, etc.... Seems like it wouldn't be that tough to add an argument for destination directory in the INI file. Any suggestions?


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Ray the Reaper Global Moderator Members Lantica Support Offline The One & The Only Posts: 2482 Joined: Aug 20^th, 2003	Re: Controlling Backups Reply #1 - Jul 16^th, 2014 at 1:45pm	Print Post
	Hello Robert, For what you are after you might want to consider using a command like XCopy in a batch file set up on a scheduled task to run at say 3 in the morning, when no one is going to be changing the files. -Ray

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Robert Manshack Member Offline Posts: 31 Joined: Jun 26^th, 2014	Re: Controlling Backups Reply #2 - Jul 16^th, 2014 at 9:35pm	Print Post
	I'd have to unload all the apps first for that to work right? What if someone leaves an app open when they leave for the night?


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Ray the Reaper Global Moderator Members Lantica Support Offline The One & The Only Posts: 2482 Joined: Aug 20^th, 2003	Re: Controlling Backups Reply #3 - Jul 17^th, 2014 at 2:43pm	Print Post
	Hello Robert, The files do not have to be unloaded. As long as no one is actively changing the files, they can be backed up while loaded. The backups will be locked but that can easily be solved by a call to sunlock.exe to unlock the backup or by using Server Administration if the backup is ever needed. -Ray

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Robert Manshack Member Offline Posts: 31 Joined: Jun 26^th, 2014	Re: Controlling Backups Reply #4 - Jul 18^th, 2014 at 8:20pm	Print Post
	ok, so I could just do an xcopy, looking for the right file extensions in the c:\sesame2\data subdirectory, wrap that up in a dos batch, then make that a scheduled task and i'd be good to go? Do i have to actually do the backup command or could i just simply make a copy of the files?


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Ray the Reaper Global Moderator Members Lantica Support Offline The One & The Only Posts: 2482 Joined: Aug 20^th, 2003	Re: Controlling Backups Reply #5 - Jul 18^th, 2014 at 8:28pm	Print Post
	Yup that will do you. No need to use the backup on interval command in addition to this unless you want to have that backup as well. -Ray

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Robert Manshack Member Offline Posts: 31 Joined: Jun 26^th, 2014	Re: Controlling Backups Reply #6 - Jul 18^th, 2014 at 10:03pm	Print Post
	fantastic....i love it when something is actually simple.... thanks!


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