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Posted 19 January 2019 - 07:37 PM
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.
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Posted 20 January 2019 - 09:49 AM
Mine have year month date on each back up all you would have to do it add a or b or c before ).
Genealogy:
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Posted 20 January 2019 - 04:51 PM
That is the point bdunn is making, he thinks it would be better if RM applies a different file name to every backup.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 02:59 PM
Confirming this is on the enhancement request list.
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 04:00 PM
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!
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Posted 22 January 2019 - 07:42 PM
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
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Posted 25 January 2019 - 10:06 AM
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!
