Could Everything automatically perodically create an efu file?

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Biff
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Could Everything automatically perodically create an efu file?

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Could Everything automatically perodically create an efu file (may be for each drive separately) / a list or such and save it (e.g. to a special folder) of all of the drives (or special drives) to always have a back up of the state (of files) / a complete list of files of the drives?
void
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Re: Could Everything automatically perodically create an efu file?

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Please try the Everything command line interface ES:
http://www.voidtools.com/downloads/#cli

With the Task Scheduler, create a task to run ES to save an efu file.
ES.exe -export-efu c:\filelists\backup.efu

With some batch file work you could use the current date in the filename.

To limit the export to a single drive, simply search for that drive letter, for example, to limit the export to the d: only
ES.exe d: -export-efu c:\filelists\d-backup.efu

Another option is to backup your Everything.db since it is quite compressed.
Before you copy your Everything.db, please call:
Everything.exe -update
This will make sure the Everything database is updated on disk.
The Database recovery tool can be used to convert these database files to efu files.
Biff
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Re: Could Everything automatically perodically create an efu file?

Post by Biff »

Thank you very much!

Quite comprehensive to set up something like that, I will try it.

Many thanks again
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