Option to add the date to the archive name in PACOMP ?

[Grigann]

I couldn’t find this option, so if it exists, please correct me :) But it would be great to have an option as in the WinRAR command line utility to add the date to the archive file name. For example :
pacomp -a -dyyyymmdd test.zip test.txt
would create a file called 20040917test.zip.

It’s really useful in the case of automatic daily backup.

[drew]

I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but i’ve found it to be pretty money to my backups. WinXP command line

**@echo off

echo “z:\lawoffice* –> c:\backup\lawoffice_(date).zip”
echo excluding: jpg, zip, pdf, tif, c:\lawoffice\clients*

FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%I IN (‘DATE /t’) DO SET mydate=%%L-%%J-%%K

PATH “C:\backup\bin”
pacomp -P -r -c2 -x@mab_noLawoffice.txt “c:\backup\lawoffice_%mydate%.zip” “z:\law office*.*”

echo all done!**

[Grigann]

Yes I’m already doing something like that, but it would be easier just to have this option implement in pacomp :) Thx anyway :)

[drew]

what code are you using for your solution?

[Grigann]

Unfortunately the same obscure code as yours :D I found it on the Internet, and I don’t like it, but I don’t think we have the choice :)