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THe more I think about using the date/time file names for doing clever things with backups, the more I think abot how this should be implemented, the more it seems like you could replace all the %DATETIME features with just one: $DATETIME("formatString"). Then all the limits I've suddenly figured ou...

I assume you mean Options=>Advanced in the program and Parameters in the help index. But right now I can't seem to do both a daily backup using dd and a monthly backup using MM unless I use up the "Timestamp" format in filenames for one of them and there seems to be no way to do that for 3 formats n...

Tried and working. Why I never though of that before is curious, but thanks so much for leading me to a better solution. It does make me want to ask why there is only one alternate date format or why I can't do something like:

%CUSTOMFORMATDATETIME("dd")

I see that %DOM is not there, but %FORMATDATETIME with the Alternate date time set to "dd" looks like it would work. I will have to try that.

I did something like this for one of my clients, but I did it using 31 identical backup jobs each one firing on a different day of the month with a different target directory. I realize it's kind of brute force, but it's simple for her to find any days backup up to 30 days ago and it works perfectly...

Sorry, I know how to do this, I was trying to help the poster and I pointed out that needed to be checked.

Not to complain, but I just downloaded the SQL browser and it would be awfully nice if you'd add a view or two so that the data might be useful to those who don't understand the relationships. Personally I don't care, I was just surprised to see that I pretty much learned nothing by looking at the r...

You might be able to use get-process in a powershell script to get that information.

I thought that's what my example does, return 7 when the file is missing.

You might be able to create a batch file with a line like this:

if not exist c:\lists.txt exit 7

and then don't continue backup on error be checking "Cancel the task if some event fails."