>Hi
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>I never really understood open file backup. If a file is open and in use by an application(s) and you do an open file backup, what are you getting? Surely this must result in a file that is not necessarily complete and/or in harmony with associated indexes or even possily corrupted.
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>How does open file backup work?

None of them work for dbf's as far as I have been able to determine.

I schedule a little fox application which opens shared tables and does a 'copy to' to a backup database - so extended table properties stired in the dbc is retained. It's not perfect, but quite sufficient for emergency reconstruction.

I'm not much of a blogger, but I think I documented a simplified description... having trouble finding it at the moment - could have been my missing Foxite blog. Let me know if you'd like to see it and I'll track it down.

Michael