geirowe
27th October 2006 19:22 UTC

Backup prev installed directory/subdirectorys
Hi,
I am trying to backup more than one direcories where each of them have more than one subdirectory all directories with several files, before installing a new patch. Anybody with an ide how I can do that?:confused:

goldy1064
27th October 2006 19:38 UTC

Something like this?

FUnction .onINit
  InitPluginsDir
  #discover previous $INSTDIR
  CreateDirectory "$PLUGINSDIR\backup"
  CopyFiles "$INSTDIR\*.*" "$PLUGINSDIR\backup"
  #apply patch
FunctionEnd

geirowe
27th October 2006 20:19 UTC

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'm still confuced.
Your scode sample did not work. I did not do anything at all. I have tried several modifications and I have also tried using IfFileExists without any success.

The $PLUGINSDIR is a temporay directory, can that be my problem?

I want to make a new directory "$INSTDIR\backup" to backup the old direcorys an files to and as I mentioned will have several directories with several subdirecories.