Feature Request
 

Not sure if this is already possible but:

I have an ext drive with 4 partitions and every week i SD my Mac into one of those partitions, sequentially. Problem is that sometimes i forget which one i used last..
is there a way or could there be a way to save the log file with a user defined name onto the target partition?
that way, when i look at the partitions i immediately can see a text file named "SD Backup 27Oct06" or whatever.

what do you think?

Czr

Not really, but you could use a post-copy shell script to "touch" a file on the drive that could help you figure things out.

Thanks for the reply Dave,

I would really like to "leave a receipt" on the target drive after a backup. I think that a simple script to copy the logfile to the target would do it.

do you think it would be difficult to write such a script, i am willing to try but not sure how to get the <target> path.

Also, I poked around but was not able to find the log file, can you tell me where it is kept?

tx
CZR

FWIW:

I solved that issue (well, really a work around) by:
Creating a custom icon for my source drive. Then, each time SD! copies the source to the target volume, the custom icon is also copied. Thus, when I next log on, I have a visual cue that a copy has been made, e.g., a second volume that looks identical to the source.

Of course, I then remove (2 clicks) the custom icon from the target so that it is ready for the next SD! copy.

The "target" path is one of the parameters passed to the script ($4, as I recall)... these are documented in the User's Guide.

Note, though -- the log isn't usually written until the backup is done. So you can't really copy the log. Instead, as I said, just touch a receipt file with the date/time: that should work for you!

Is there a way to have the date/time as the file name of the 'receipt'?

Anyone care to walk me through this...?