[Dx4win] SyncBack_DX4WIN_BACKUPS

[Larry Gauthier (K8UT)]

George,

Gary has found a feature that I overlooked in SyncBack. When you create a 
schedule for a profile, there is an <Advanced Schedule Options> screen on 
which you can declare the start date and repeat interval for backups. So, 
you could define a backup to run every day at 00:00, and then tell it to 
repeat every 5 minutes (or whatever number of minutes you want) for 24 
hours. Essentially, this creates a backup that runs every 5 minutes forever!

Thanks for the tip, Gary!

-larry
K8UT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Bartlett VE1RGB" <garybartlett at accesswave.ca>
To: "Larry Gauthier (K8UT)" <K8UT at charter.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 09:59
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] SyncBack_DX4WIN_BACKUPS


> Hi, Larry:
>
>    I got SyncBack to do ten-minute backups for DX4WIN and for N1MM 
> contesting software, although it took a bit of experimenting to get there. 
> I wanted to use the Synchronize feature, but I couldn't get it going.  It 
> seemed like they wanted me to download and pay for SyncBackSE to get 
> synchronization to work.
>
>    So, it will do a job -- sort of.
>
>    73,
>    Gary, VE1RGB
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Gauthier (K8UT)" <K8UT at charter.net>
> To: "George K" <w2yj at highstream.net>; <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] SyncBack_DX4WIN_BACKUPS
>
>
>> George,
>>
>> I'm afraid I might have mis-marketed SyncBack when I talked about its 
>> benefits here on the reflector. SyncBack is a great backup program for 
>> doing daily (or less frequent) backups, but it is NOT the right tool for 
>> mirroring two drives in real-time or at short intervals. There are some 
>> software programs out there that will do this -- as well as some 
>> hardware-only solutions -- but I don't use them and have no 
>> recommendations.
>>
>> I simply back-up my DX4WIN \SAVE directory daily, and my entire 
>> collection of \HAM RADIO programs weekly. I figure that's good enough for 
>> me... stuff doesn't change that often here!
>>
>> -larry
>> K8UT
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "George K" <w2yj at highstream.net>
>> To: <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 08:14
>> Subject: [Dx4win] SyncBack_DX4WIN_BACKUPS
>>
>>
>> Anyone have an idea of how to use SyncBack the free backup program to 
>> backup DX4WIN logging files at 2 or 3 min intervals to my Kingston512MB 
>> USB flash drive???
>> I just can't make SyncBack work and I don't know what DX4WIN file changes 
>> as the upper part of DX4WIN screen says in red, "MODIFIED (count down 
>> numbers)", to black, "Modified", to backup on a regular basis.
>> Anyone, help.
>> Thanks.
>> George
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