save application folder in a zip

[calude]

Sometimes I close my laptop a little brutally fast, and as a by-product I got UDC and other *.DAT files reset to their "Default" state.
probably they where being saved by XY while the laptop was closing everything.
I unchecked "save on exit". And all is good. But While trying to recover from those .dat resets I found out that, although I had backups, they where old and not so many.
to be more on the safe side I would like to have a script that would backup the application data folder in a zip sequentially named by the date.

Thanks

Claude

[yuyu]

Something like this:

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$BackupPath = "[YOUR PATH]\XY_<xyver>_<date ddmmyy_hhnnss>.zip";
	status "Backup in progress...", "", "progress";
	zip_add($BackupPath, <xydata>);
	status "Backup to ""$BackupPath"" done", "", "ready";

Change [YOUR PATH] to your needs.

[calude]

yuyu thanks a lot

but when I launch the script it complains that some characters are not allowed to be compressed.


if I use 7zip to zip the same folder no complain?!?

Claude

[yuyu]

The problem is not in the script itself. It seems that native Windows zip utility somehow does not like § symbols. I don't use Session Manager (and that problem characters are generated likely by it). Tried on my system. It compresses without complaints but breaks those symbols in the archive and after decompressing.
§2§_ >>> _2__
Cannot offer the solution yet

[klownboy]

It seems you have 7-Zip installed. You could try substituting 7z for zip_add. Something along these lines.

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 $BackupPath = "Your Destinaiton Path\XY_<xyver>_<date ddmmyy_hhnnss>.zip";
 status "Backup in progress...", "", "progress";
 run """Your Path to 7z\7z.exe"" a ""$BackupPath"" ""<xydata>""";
 status "Backup to ""$BackupPath"" done", "", "ready";

[highend]

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run """Your Path to 7z\7z.exe"" a ""$BackupPath"" ""<xydata>""";

Otherwise you'll run into problems if any of your paths contains space(s)...

[klownboy]

Oops sorry, thanks highend. I'll correct my post so no one is lead down a merry path.

[yuyu]

Thanks highend for help with those quotations. Switched to 7z.

[klownboy]

To make it more seemless (i.e., without the 7z box flashing on the screen) use "0" for SC run show parameter.
run """Your Path to 7z\7z.exe"" a ""$BackupPath"" ""<xydata>""",,,0;

[highend]

or runret() with a flag of 2 so you have some error checking as well

[calude]

A big thank you to all

Claude