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Posted by Jim on August 6, 2006, 11:34 am
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Does this silence mean that no one is interested in an application that
will manage their Quicken backup files?
It will delete backup files that are no longer needed.
It's a GUI application written in Python.
Thanks,
Jim
Jim wrote:
> PURPOSE: MANAGE QUICKEN BACKUP DIRECTORY FILES, i.e., MQBUDF.
>
> I have written a script in Python that meets the following
> ======================================================
> REQUIREMENTS:
> 1) Read in all file names from Quicken backup directory.
> 2) Produce a list of all Quicken backup file names with date.
> 3) Keep all:
> a) Backup files created within the last 38 days.
> b) Month-end backup files for last 18 months.
> c) Year-end backup files for last 10 years.
> NOTE: If MQBUDF finds no backups in the last 38 days then
> MQBUDF will revise options file "options.jsc" to show
> a keep date that will be equal to the most recent backup
> set.
> 4) Delete all other Quicken backup files (by request only).
> 5) ONLY Quicken backup files can be in the Quicken backup
> directory.
> 6) Quicken backups must be created within +/- 7 days of each
> month-end.
> 7) Quicken backup file names must be in the following format:
> Name_yyyymmdd.ext.
> 8) "Python MQBUDF.PY" command-line options are as follows:
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Does this silence mean that no one is interested in an application that
will manage their Quicken backup files?
It will delete backup files that are no longer needed.
It's a GUI application written in Python.
Thanks,
Jim
Jim wrote:
> PURPOSE: MANAGE QUICKEN BACKUP DIRECTORY FILES, i.e., MQBUDF.
>
> I have written a script in Python that meets the following
> ======================================================
> REQUIREMENTS:
> 1) Read in all file names from Quicken backup directory.
> 2) Produce a list of all Quicken backup file names with date.
> 3) Keep all:
> a) Backup files created within the last 38 days.
> b) Month-end backup files for last 18 months.
> c) Year-end backup files for last 10 years.
> NOTE: If MQBUDF finds no backups in the last 38 days then
> MQBUDF will revise options file "options.jsc" to show
> a keep date that will be equal to the most recent backup
> set.
> 4) Delete all other Quicken backup files (by request only).
> 5) ONLY Quicken backup files can be in the Quicken backup
> directory.
> 6) Quicken backups must be created within +/- 7 days of each
> month-end.
> 7) Quicken backup file names must be in the following format:
> Name_yyyymmdd.ext.
> 8) "Python MQBUDF.PY" command-line options are as follows:
> a) /? Outputs the command-line options syntax, i.e.,
> "Python MQBUDF.py /?".
> b) /D Dumps Quicken backup directory information into a
> tab delimited text file "QDump.txt".
> c) Drive:Path to Quicken backup files, e.g.,
> G:QUICKENBACKUP.
> 9) Place backup file names that can be deleted into file
> DQfiles.txt
> for viewing. Requires a procedure when file DQfiles.txt gets
> too
> large that it will remove the first few records. Maximum file
> size should be about 48K, i.e., about 1,000 records or 140
> backup
> days.
> 10) Have a file called options.jsc set the default path and/or
> numeric
> digits however, the command-line option will override this
> default
> path. Also, keep special backup file dates, that are not the
> regular keep dates, in this options.jsc file, e.g., "Keep:
> 20050615".
> Plus set AutoDelete to Yes, in order to automatically delete the
> non-keep backup files, e.g., AutoDelete: Yes. However, if using
> command-line arguments then turn off AutoDelete.
> ======================================================
> If anyone is interested please contact me.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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