P E Schoen
2011-01-02 22:43:22 UTC
I don't fully trust most of the backup programs I've found and tried to use,
and I usually just do a manual backup by copying critical and recently
modified files and folders to an external drive or CDROM. I thought it would
be good to use Delphi to create an application that automates this process
and allows me to add or change things to my own needs. But it seemed a waste
of time to start from scratch so I searched for an existing app with source
code as a starting point.
I downloaded this "Backup Machine", which seemed promising:
http://delphi.about.com/od/fullcodeprojects/l/aa033004a.htm. However, when I
tried to open the project with D4pro there were multiple errors which I
found were caused by a missing TApplicationEvents component. I found what
was supposed to be a free download for this but the link went to some crap
website. (Tong software or xentrix.net)
Before I waste more time searching with no joy, does anyone have any
suggestions for obtaining a Delphi project and source code that will work on
D4, or even good suggestions for a backup program? Is the built-in backup
utility in Win7 any good? I've had terrible experience with the Western
Digital Smartware that came with the "My Passport" external drive, and the
NCH software "FileFort" http://www.nchsoftware.com/backup/index.html was not
very good IMHO. I don't want an app that uses a proprietary backup format.
Just filenames and perhaps a date-time stamp added. And maybe zipfiles.
Thanks!
Paul
and I usually just do a manual backup by copying critical and recently
modified files and folders to an external drive or CDROM. I thought it would
be good to use Delphi to create an application that automates this process
and allows me to add or change things to my own needs. But it seemed a waste
of time to start from scratch so I searched for an existing app with source
code as a starting point.
I downloaded this "Backup Machine", which seemed promising:
http://delphi.about.com/od/fullcodeprojects/l/aa033004a.htm. However, when I
tried to open the project with D4pro there were multiple errors which I
found were caused by a missing TApplicationEvents component. I found what
was supposed to be a free download for this but the link went to some crap
website. (Tong software or xentrix.net)
Before I waste more time searching with no joy, does anyone have any
suggestions for obtaining a Delphi project and source code that will work on
D4, or even good suggestions for a backup program? Is the built-in backup
utility in Win7 any good? I've had terrible experience with the Western
Digital Smartware that came with the "My Passport" external drive, and the
NCH software "FileFort" http://www.nchsoftware.com/backup/index.html was not
very good IMHO. I don't want an app that uses a proprietary backup format.
Just filenames and perhaps a date-time stamp added. And maybe zipfiles.
Thanks!
Paul