>Moises,
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>I wrote some years ago a backup program that backups open tables, the concept is quite easy thou, just open the table and copy to cdx <g> Granted, you will probably end up with data inconsistencies, but at least you get most of it. Of course there is no way you can copy a table that has been opened exclusively...

Yes - copying to another table is probably the only way you will be able to do this. At least you *should* be writing complete records this way.

Zipping has no way to know if the table or records are in a state where they are complete enough to write. If a zip program actually wrote a file, it very likely would be corrupt if users had the table open and were actively writing data..