DONE: auto-save AutoHotkey.ini daily to another folder

[brotherS]

Hi,

I'd like to add a few lines to my main AHK script (that's running 24/7) that will copy this script to another partition but with the name AutoHotkey-YYYY-MM-DD.ini (so for today it would be AutoHotkey-2005-11-24.ini) once a day only - so I'd get one copy for every day the PC is running.

Any ideas? Maybe this could be somehow combined with the auto-reload on save script?

Code

;2005-11-23
;auto-reloads the AHK script
;http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=135&highlight=auto+reload
$^s:: 
  Send, ^s 
  SetTitleMatchMode, 2
  IfWinActive, AutoHotkey.ini
    { 
       TrayTip, AutoHotkey, reloading script...
       SetTimer, RemoveTrayTip, 1500
     } 
return 

RemoveTrayTip: 
    SetTimer, RemoveTrayTip, Off 
    TrayTip 
    Reload 
return 
;http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=135&highlight=auto+reload

[mouser]

very useful idea.
can i suggest two additional features:
1) dont make a new backup file for the day if its identical to the last one.
2) zip it when making backup (in this case you wouldnt have to add date to file, just to zip).

[brotherS]

I didn't suggest option 1) because I want it to be as fast as possible, but I like your suggestion 2)!

[skrommel]

How about something along the lines of

Code

SetTimer,BACKUP,60000

BACKUP:
IfNotExist,D:\AutoHotkey-%A_YYYY%-%A_MM%-%A_DD%.ini
  FileCopy,C:\AutoHotkey.ini,D:\AutoHotkey-%A_YYYY%-%A_MM%-%A_DD%.ini
Return

Skrommel

[brotherS]

How about something along the lines of
[...]

clean and simple solution, thanks!

[brotherS]

Hmm, very strange:

At 23:07, while we still had the 24th, it created this file:
AutoHotkey-2005-11-25

EDIT:
Err, probably it is working just fine, I was just confused by the fact that the file date wasn't changed when copied, but that's good, I just have to get used to it