Hi,
I would like to zip certain directories and copy them to somewhere else. I'm able to create a button for this and click it manually. Obviously, this is not interesting because it has to be done daily. Is there any way to use DOpus and the task scheduler to achieve this?
Greetings,
Sigurd
If you want background scheduled tasks, rather than something with a user interface, you're better off using a command line zip tool (e.g. 7-Zip's command line mode is a good, free option).
While you could do this using Opus, you'd have progress dialogs and possibly error dialogs popping up when the scheduled task ran, which might get in your way.
Thx for the reply.
Is there a change DOpus will add such a feature in the next version? This would be extremely helpfull!
Opus isn't an automated background backup tool, and if we tried to make it one it probably wouldn't be a very good one as it would not be our focus.
If you want to build something using Task Scheduler, I'm not sure what value Opus can add over the command-line archiving tools you already have at your disposal. The value in Opus is providing a good, customizable UI for doing things, but you don't want a UI for automated background tasks (aside from the setup and scheduling), so command-line tools are actually better for that kind of job.
Using a dedicated tool made for doing automated backups is probably going to be even better than using Task Scheduler (with or without Opus being involved). Horses for courses!