Use Winzip to Backup your files using the date as a filename

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Apr 28, 1998 11:00 pm

Contributed By: Ali Shah [email protected]
Submitted On: 29/04/98

Run Program>G:\Program Files\WinZip\Winzip32.exe
WaitWindowOpen>WinZip
Press CTRL
Send Character/Text>n
Release CTRL
Send Character/Text>c:\iparc\File backup of My Documents
Month>month
Day>day
Year>year
Send Character/Text>%day%-%month%-%year%.zip
Press Enter
Send Character/Text>f:\My Documents\*.*
Press Tab
Press Enter
Press Enter
Press Enter
Wait>300
Press F8
Send Character/Text>i:\
Press Enter
WaitWindowClosed>Copying
CloseWindow>WinZip

One problem with this - you have to modify the wait time depending on the number of files you have.
This script creates two backups, one to the hard drive and another to a zip disk. You can delete
everything after Wait>300 if you dont want to backup to a second source.