Automatic backup of turn files

[Gandalf Parker]

Very nice. And excellent explanation.

One note. If your icon has a Target line like
"C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3.exe"
with the quotes (windows puts the quotes because of the space in that line) then put the --preexec backup.bat outside of the second quote.

It also answers a question I had about windows variables that I was going to look up so that I could convert some of my linux scripts to windows batch files.

[thejeff]

Another thing I found useful is to pass the game name on the --preexec line.

--preexec "backup.bat GameName"

This way you can use the same script for every game you play and just change the line in properties.

If you also generate the score dump, you can parse that for the turn number and actually save each turn.

I had a fairly simple bash script version, but gave up on converting it to Windows, since the current version behaves badly when running the postexec, at least if it's full screen.

[Gandalf Parker]

The passed name is a good thing. Thanks.
I can see it being useful since I tend to create a seperate icon for every server game Im in because it saves me changing the server and port when Im playing multiple games on multiple servers. With your hint I can have one bat file making backups of all of my MP games, and just have each icon telling it which game to save. Very handy since multiple games makes it hard to remember what I did last turn.

[Lollipop]

thejeff said:
If you also generate the score dump, you can parse that for the turn number and actually save each turn.

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.

I attached a python script. Instead of long winded explanations:

Code:

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pia@Lollipop:~/dominions3$ ./dom3backup.py --help

usage: dom3backup.py [options]



options:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -n NAME, --name=NAME  Process file <name>. Otherwise latest file

  -f FREQ, --freq=FREQ  create a Zipfile every <n> turns. Default: 0 (no

                        zipfile)

  -m MAXFILES, --maxfiles=MAXFILES

                        keep max. <n> Zipfiles. Delete oldest. Default: 0

                        (keep all)

  -d ARCHDIR, --archdir=ARCHDIR

                        create Zipfiles in archdir. archdir must exists.

                        Default: <dom3>/archivedgames

  --nocopy              don't copy files to backup-dir. Default: False

  --clean               remove all zipfiles and the backup-dir

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[Gandalf Parker]

I posted a batch file for playing with the map making commands. It makes it easy to generate map after map with the same settings. It also lets you play with things like the color settings. I posted it into the MOD/MAP subforum since I think it is more useful to that crowd.