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Old May 23rd, 2005, 3:38 AM   #2
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I'm not sure how you would accomplish such a task on the software side without being extremely resource demanding. The only way that i can think to do it is constantly scanning files for changes in the date_modified part of the file information. This wouldn't be hard, but it would have to keep track of what every file was the last time it scanned before doing it again. Keeping something like that in program memory would be HELL! Maybe you could work with MSSQL server or something for better results, but still the process will be demanding on the computer and slow down performance.

I'm sorry if i'm being harsh but i'm trying to warn you, especially since you've never programmed C++ before, that a backup system of this magnitude would be comprable to the slowdown on the system that spyware causes.
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