Preliminary Conclusions

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 4/6/12 10:56 AM, "Thorsten Hohage" <thohage at genericobjects.de> wrote:

Hi Thorsten,

>> - BACKUP DATABASE TO Œfolder¹ should copy files into Œfolder¹ and not create
>> in Œfolder¹ a new folder with time stamp:
>>  
>> BACKUP DATABASE TO Œc:\\backup¹ results in files in:
>> c:\backup\20120405_140953\dmxp_db.vdvŠ
>> But I hoped for:
>>                c:\backup\dmxp_db.vdbŠ
> 
> And I asked and hoped for two options for a long time

Mantis number?  :)
 

> a) just direct in the folder (like it was long before???) or in a timestamped
> folder
> 
> b) timestamp folder with an option for clean up scheme
> 
> b1 keep all (like it is now)
> 
> b2 last XXX number to specify
> 
> b3 "professional" scheme ... all for one week, last of a week, last of a
> month, last of a year  .... that would be my dream :)
> 
> 
> I know all this clean up options can be done by scripting the system, but not
> all developers are hardcore scripters (think e. g. of Revolution user) and we
> buy Valentina, we could instead use BTree if we want to go hardcore ;) so b2
> and b3 would be really, really helpful to define a new level of professionally
> integrated database backup.

Yes they can be helpful.

Please copy paste into mantis from your name.

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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