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Saturday, 24 July 2010 06:54 CDT

user12388

Is there a way to insert a time stamp macro in the description parameter of a native command line command?

i.e. -profile 3 -description "Partial File Backup [DATE]-[TIME]"

I tried and it doesn't work the same way that the file name macros work.

Thanks,
David

Saturday, 24 July 2010 11:33 CDT

dlb

I knew I'd seen something about the macros in the change log, but it involved post processing. I'll flag this for Nicholas.

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Saturday, 24 July 2010 11:41 CDT

user12388

Thanks Dale.

I might suggest that it be coded into the default description message in a similar way that happens in the back end.

David

Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:46 CDT

nicholas

In fact, the description never supported "variables", only the archive name did. Since the last developer's release, so does the directory name of remote storage (S3, DropBox, FTP, etc). If you used the default description, the date/time stamp was automatically appended, as part of automatically defining the default description that is.

Now, since there seems to be a need to insert automatically defined values, like the date and time, in descriptions and comments, I am doing a small modification to support the same kind of "variables" supported in the archive naming, i.e. [DATE], [TIME], [HOST] and [RANDOM]. I will be rolling out this update with the next developer's release.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:07 CDT

user12388

Thumbs up for the responsiveness!

David

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:56 CDT

nicholas

This feature will make it in the next SVN release (most probably SVN199 or SVN200)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Friday, 30 July 2010 03:16 CDT

user12388

Working well in SVN198.

Thanks for the great work.

David

Friday, 30 July 2010 08:01 CDT

nicholas

Thank you!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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