PHWinfo - Afficher un message - script for scheduled backing up local content files to the network file storage

27/11/2007, 23h30

Hey Al,
Just wondering what the official name is? I don't even know whether it can
be called a scripting language? Can it? What is it?
Thanks,
Dave.

"Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub@hotmail.com.nospaam> wrote in message
news:ud6WSGKMIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Since this thread has already degenerated to a bit of a hissy-fit argument
> on the meaning of words like "deprecated" :-) I'll risk pointing out that
> Pegasus' comment was not a slight against your use of batch scripting, but
> against your referring to batch scripts as "DOS scripts".
>
> As for your latest reply below, I am at a loss to know how you could write
> anything "in" "MS-Dos". MS-DOS is not a language, but an operating system.
> And if you were indeed still using MS-DOS as your operating system, that
> would be good enough reason not to have converted to VBScript, because
> VBScript requires, at a minimum, Windows 98.
>
>
> /Al
>
> "D.R." <a@b.c.d> wrote in message
> news:eLccj55LIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>

Okay, the backup script is written in MS-Dos - I haven't converted it
>> to VBScript yet. I prefer OpenVMS DCL as a scripting language, but these
>> days most things I do are in VBScript.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
>> news:eVVFgo5LIHA.3516@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "D.R." <a@b.c.d> wrote in message
>>> news:uWIsVM5LIHA.5244@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Stanley,
>>>>
>>>> Is the script supposed to start automatically in the background?
>>>> Or will ir be manually initiated?
>>>> If it fires automatically, who will be around (and logged on) to
>>>> respond to any dialog boxes?
>>>> What about using "ntbackup" to create compressed BKF files?
>>>> How many copies to reside on the file server?
>>>> Must the script keep at least one good copy, i.e. only remove/delete
>>>> the previous backup as long as the current backup actually works?
>>>> How much data are we talking about from the client? How many different
>>>> clients will run this backup?
>>>>
>>>> I have a DOS script that could run as a scheduled task, and thus you
>>>> could configure for the scheduled task to run as a particular user name
>>>> automatically, but it will stop working as soon as the password for the
>>>> account is changed.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you want a copy, it's a DOS script of medium complexity.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dave.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I thought that DOS was an operating system that was retired some
>>> fifteen years ago? :-)
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

27/11/2007, 23h30	#30
D.R. Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: script for scheduled backing up local content files to the network file storage Hey Al, Just wondering what the official name is? I don't even know whether it can be called a scripting language? Can it? What is it? Thanks, Dave. "Al Dunbar" <AlanDrub@hotmail.com.nospaam> wrote in message news:ud6WSGKMIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Since this thread has already degenerated to a bit of a hissy-fit argument > on the meaning of words like "deprecated" :-) I'll risk pointing out that > Pegasus' comment was not a slight against your use of batch scripting, but > against your referring to batch scripts as "DOS scripts". > > As for your latest reply below, I am at a loss to know how you could write > anything "in" "MS-Dos". MS-DOS is not a language, but an operating system. > And if you were indeed still using MS-DOS as your operating system, that > would be good enough reason not to have converted to VBScript, because > VBScript requires, at a minimum, Windows 98. > > > /Al > > "D.R." <a@b.c.d> wrote in message > news:eLccj55LIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Okay, the backup script is written in MS-Dos - I haven't converted it >> to VBScript yet. I prefer OpenVMS DCL as a scripting language, but these >> days most things I do are in VBScript. >> >> >> >> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message >> news:eVVFgo5LIHA.3516@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> >>> "D.R." <a@b.c.d> wrote in message >>> news:uWIsVM5LIHA.5244@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >>>> Stanley, >>>> >>>> Is the script supposed to start automatically in the background? >>>> Or will ir be manually initiated? >>>> If it fires automatically, who will be around (and logged on) to >>>> respond to any dialog boxes? >>>> What about using "ntbackup" to create compressed BKF files? >>>> How many copies to reside on the file server? >>>> Must the script keep at least one good copy, i.e. only remove/delete >>>> the previous backup as long as the current backup actually works? >>>> How much data are we talking about from the client? How many different >>>> clients will run this backup? >>>> >>>> I have a DOS script that could run as a scheduled task, and thus you >>>> could configure for the scheduled task to run as a particular user name >>>> automatically, but it will stop working as soon as the password for the >>>> account is changed. >>>> >>>> Let me know if you want a copy, it's a DOS script of medium complexity. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Dave. >>>> >>> >>> I thought that DOS was an operating system that was retired some >>> fifteen years ago? :-) >>> >> >> > >