Bring the "Backup" command closer please

[dirmansyah]

Request: To have the Backup command under the Tools menu.
menu "Tools" > "Backup" .
( with its keyboard shortcut, perhaps ? )

Currently, the backup command: menu "Tools" > "Options" - "Backup" tab - "Backup" button.

Thanks.

[admin]

What would be the use case for seeing it closer?

[dirmansyah]

What would be the use case for seeing it closer?

Well, not "seeing" it ; but "using" it.
So, even if there is no menu item for backup I can see, if keyboard shortcut can be used to call it, it would be handy.

The use case? Because I want to backup my data manually for the common reasons why users should backup their data.
Perhaps, I do not understand your question.

MS-OneNote devs also put the backup command deep down in the option menu. Something I hate for so many years.

Thanks.

[MetalDrop]

Like most things that can be done program independent if you spend the time to learn to do it another way you gain the ability to do it anywhere you want and freedom from whatever the Devs decide.

You can easily make a backup hotkey using https://www.autohotkey.com/
Which could provide you a more robust backup system than the one built into EPIM.

https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/FileCopy.htm
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Variables.htm#BuiltIn


Here's a simple example that backups a portable database to a backup folder and adds a UTC time stamp to it when you hit Win+b inside EPIM.

You could also dive deeper and use ZPAQ through a command line from AHK and then you'd be able to save databases to a compressed format that handles lots of duplicate data exceedingly well. You can also get fancy and setup AHK to check for number of files, use different naming styles, using other compression types, use the same hotkey in every program you want to use it for but have it work differently for each one...etc. Really the sky and your imagination become the limit.

Code: Select all

#IfWinActive ahk_exe EssentialPIM.exe
#b::
FileCopy, C:\Portable\EPIM\Database\MyDatabase.epim, D:\MyEPIMBackups\MyDatabase_%A_NowUTC%.epim
return

That said, I don't bother with manual backups myself. Humans are too fallible. I use to be very manual, and it never failed that the ONE time I actually needed a recent backup it would be the day I got distracted and didn't hit the button enough. So now that I'm older for less important things I set up a bat file that I run through windows task scheduler to do Zpaq or Backup4Sure backups twice day. For things I'm paranoid about I use an up to the minute offsite synchronization with 12hrs of revision history.

[dirmansyah]

thanks for the suggestion.