Re: Backup Droplet
Re: Backup Droplet
- Subject: Re: Backup Droplet
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:26:29 -0500
On 7/24/02 9:10 AM, "Ari Winokur" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I want to create a droplet that will backup files or directories that I drag
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onto it to a specific location of my choosing, I know this is not a
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difficult script however, I want to know how to set it to automatically
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overwrite the old backup. Thanks in advance for all your help
With a little help from this list, I just got through writing two scripts
that are very similar to what you're asking for. Neither of them is designed
to be "portable" away from my own file structure, but it shouldn't be too
hard to adapt them. 'Make StuffIt Archive at...' was written to be used with
Big Cat (thought it should also work with the front Finder window selection
from the script menu) and brings up a "save" dialog for each individual file
you're compressing. (Just dragging onto DropStuff, as you probably know,
puts all the files together into one archive.) It depends on the library
script 'Stuff.scpt' 'Blue Danube Archive' is a droplet which takes the
folder containing the FileMaker database set I use to run my business,
compresses it, renames it to a standard archive name based on the date and
how many backups have already been made for that day, puts the backup in a
pre-selected backup folder, and deletes the oldest existing backup. (I guess
the next step will be to set it up so that it's invoked automatically from
within FileMaker on shutdown....) I'll put them on my FTP server for 24
hours in a file called "AppleScript.sit", at <
ftp://ftp.bdanube.com>.
Michael
--
Republican? Democrat? How totally 20th-century. Next you'll be voting
Whig....
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