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Create backup of workbook every specific period

Postby YasserKhalil » Fri May 01, 2015 4:08 pm

Hello everybody
The following code creates a backup of the active wirkbook every 15 second ... Of course you can change the period as you like
Create a folder and name it "Test" in the partition C:\

The code in a module
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Sub CreateBackup()
'The code creates backup of the workbook every 15 seconds. You can change the period

    Dim strDate As String, strTime As String
'Format date
    strDate = Format(Date, "DD-MM-YYYY")
'Format time
    strTime = Format(Time, "hh.mm.ss")
'Cancel alert messages
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
        With ActiveWorkbook
'Create a backup in the C:\Test folder. You can change the path
            .SaveCopyAs Filename:="C:\Test\" & strDate & "_" & strTime & "_" & .Name
        End With
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
'Run the macro again after 15 seconds
    Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:15"), "CreateBackup"
End Sub



And this code is in a workbook module
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Private Sub Workbook_Open()
'Run the macro named "CreateBackup" after 15 seconds when workbook is opened
    Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:15"), "CreateBackup"
End Sub


Regards,
YasserKhalil From Egypt
Last edited by Don on Sat May 02, 2015 8:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: added code tags to the second section of code
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