6 replies to this topic

[bdunn]

It would be great to optionally have a new name applied for each backup Currently I back up several times a day when I am using RM. When I do this, I have to manually increment the file name of the backup each time I backup more than once in a day. It would probably be very easy to allow that name to either automatically increment or to allow the date AND the time to be in the filename for the backup.

 

[Nettie]

Mine have year month date on each back up all you would have to do it add a or b or c before ).

[pstaveley]

That is the point bdunn is making, he thinks it would be better if RM applies a different file name to every backup.

[Renee Zamora]

Confirming this is on the enhancement request list. 

[Bob C]

This can be easily solved by adding a HH:MM time stamp to the existing date. That way each backup is unique to the minute!

[zhangrau]

Here's an example of how a photography program that I use names files:

 

20181231124359.jpg

 

very easy to decode:

 

YYYYmmddhhmmss = year month day hour minute second

[bdunn]

Legacy 9 already does this and it's very helpful. Each backup filename is appended by the Year-Month-Day-Hour-Minute-Second so the filenames for backups look like this:

 

"MASTER GEDCOM FROM RM-2019-01-20 1.36.27 PM.zip"

 

That would be awesome and probably simple to add to RM.

 

Thanks!