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Shane:
--- Quote ---Tried the new exe. It still has both tests, so need to drop the first set.
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I left those on purpose. In case a user deletes the file int he windows dir :-)
--- Quote ---As I mentioned before, I have Win 7, called DELL-P370 on I: and Win 8 Consumer Preview, also called DELL-P370 on I: I do it this way so the computer name is always the same on my network irregardless of which version I boot. Makes sharing much easier.
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What if I added the windows version to the file name as well?
--- Quote ---Take a page from ERUNT and create a folder under \Windows that holds the backups, removing the ability to specify where the backups are written. Then it's real simple to refer to directories using \.
attrib -h -s "\Windows\System32\Config\default"
attrib -h -s "Windows\System32\Config\default.old"
del "\Windows\System32\Config\default.old"
copy "\Windows\System32\Config\default" "\Windows\System32\Config\default.old"
del "\Windows\System32\Config\default"
copy "C\Windows\System32\Config\default" "\Windows\System32\Config\default"
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This would kill the purpose of letting a user decided where to keep the backups though. :wink:
Shane
chris635:
Hey Bud
Great Program man. Hey is there anyway the program can let me know if the backup was good for a scheduled back up? Say for instance if I set it for 1:00 am, when I wake up, could there be some sort of good or failed back up notification?
Chris
Ztruker:
Some people have multiple installs of the same version so that could still be problematic, better though.
How important is it to allow people to decide where they want to save the backups? Mine run 137MB which is peanuts with the size of today's hard drives. Even 30 days worth of backups is only 4GB.
It's beginning to sound like a unique file name stored in the \Windows directory is the only sure way to handle this, bummer. If there was an API to find the Disk Signature then that would also solve the problem.
Hmmmm, what about generating a timestamp as the file name?
tweakBack_yyyymmdd-hhmmss (or something similar)
No way that can occur on two partitions unless some dummy manages to set the clock back exactly right and if they do then they deserve what they get :evil:
Shane:
--- Quote ---Hey Bud
Great Program man. Hey is there anyway the program can let me know if the backup was good for a scheduled back up? Say for instance if I set it for 1:00 am, when I wake up, could there be some sort of good or failed back up notification?
Chris
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Thats a good idea. Did you have any certain way in mind?
--- Quote ---Some people have multiple installs of the same version so that could still be problematic, better though.
How important is it to allow people to decide where they want to save the backups? Mine run 137MB which is peanuts with the size of today's hard drives. Even 30 days worth of backups is only 4GB.
It's beginning to sound like a unique file name stored in the \Windows directory is the only sure way to handle this, bummer. If there was an API to find the Disk Signature then that would also solve the problem.
Hmmmm, what about generating a timestamp as the file name?
tweakBack_yyyymmdd-hhmmss (or something similar)
No way that can occur on two partitions unless some dummy manages to set the clock back exactly right and if they do then they deserve what they get :evil:
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The goal is to only make one file. So right now I do computer name. I need something unique from the system to name the file with. But something the program can always pull.
I built it with techs running it from a thumb drive in mind.
Right now the computer name and os version seems like a good middle ground. I cant think that to many people would have the same OS installed more than once (if some do it can't be to many). Normally dual boots are different OS's. Myself I keep each other OS in vmware :-)
Shane
peterr:
I just knew Shane and Ztruker would work well together -this is great!
I wish I could contribute; David has joined from across the pond as I noticed in the other thread.
I am happy he received my link.
He will also be of great assisstance.
Peter
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