Suggestion: archiving files to be overwritten

[CrispinH]

Amongst other things, I use BC to update (geographically remote) web servers from a local source directory. It would be useful to be able to automatically archive files that are to be overwritten.

The way I see it working is this:

1. The session stores a (session-dependent) path to an archive location.

2. At overwrite time, BC generates a sub-folder in the archive location according to a user-defined date format eg "yyyy MM dd HH-mm"

3. All files to be overwritten are copied into the archive directory.

Crispin

[Guest]

Re: Suggestion: archiving files to be overwritten

Depending on your criteria, a script may help == you may be able to use something like
select rt.diff.files
copyto rt path:relative "somewhere\something_%date%.zip"
select lt.diff.file
copy lt->rt

Worse case that I can see is you might have to do a second load before selecting the left to copy to the right.

HTH

/dps

[Chris]

Re: Suggestion: archiving files to be overwritten

BC does have some limited backup options. To turn them on, go to the Backups section of Tools|Options.

More powerful backup options are on our wish list for the future.