Wayne & Paul:
According to Bert, Amazing Charts Offsite Backup already creates a COMPRESSED, ENCRYPTED version of our database before it uploads to Texas, which is saved in our Amazing Charts folder. I think it is exactly the kind of file that Paul is talking about.
As I understand it, you can browse to that folder in Administrator Options RIGHT NOW, and restore your database from it, or copy it onto a flash drive, COMPRESSED & ENCRYPTED. It's just kind of inconvenient to click-click-click to it, is all.
It would take very little, it seems, to turn this property of an already-existing feature into a whole series of other super-cool features, such as you are describing:
1. If Amazing Charts would just allow us to set the folder that this file saves to, then we could automatically save it to a flash drive each night, as part of our backup routine, and take it home after the upload is complete.
2. If Amazing Charts would just rename this file each day, adding the date (ex. ACBACKUP010408), instead of writing over it, you would be automatically creating a DAILY, DATED, COMPRESSED & ENCRYPTED series of backup files, which you could burn onto a disk monthly.
Golly gee, how hard could this be? It drives me mad, I tell you.
What kind of programming language would I have to learn to create a utility that would detect this file when it is created, rename it, and stick it in a folder on another drive? Bert, could File Assistant Pro be bent to this task?
