Re: backup script
Re: backup script
- Subject: Re: backup script
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:23:27 +0100
At 18:06 +0100 13/02/01, Mr Tea wrote:
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This from Jolly Roger - dateline 2/13/01 12.23 am:
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> tell application "Finder"
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> duplicate myFile to zipDisk with replacing
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> end tell
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One solution is for the script to empty the trash after its done the backup
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(or repeatedly during), but some people (god bless 'em) actually use the
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trash for storing stuff that they might want to keep. My preferred method is
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to use the deleteFile command from Jon's Additions.
My heart bleeds when I see "tell finder to duplicate with replacing", and
the lenghty steps needed to sort out which file is newer, and to get rid of
older files.
The "backup" command of the (free) Satimage osax (that we make) is way
better than using Finder.
- it is way faster (we synch thousands of files over our network in 5 minutes)
- it updates only outdated files
- it produces a report
- it can compare the folders without synchronizing it
Advanced features include:
- working on aliases, so that setting up a synchronization just comes to
make two aliases in an empty folder.
- having an incremental mode ( = keep all changes)
- filtering by creator types
There is little doubt that when you use it you don't use the Finder ever
more for synch, specially if the number of files increases.
There is an easy interface to it in the Smile distribution ("Compare
folders"). Just drop two folders on the window, then click "Compare", or
"Synchronize" (there is a confirmation dialog ...).
Emmanuel