Yes, backup can cause such error. Make sure that backup and your programs don't run at the same time.
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>We are running some foxpro programs automatically in the weekend w/o supervision. We are ingoring and logging all errors. Usually there are no errors, but last week we encountered a couple of 1705 errors. So we suspect that these errors happened at a moment that there happened a backup of the directories including the dbf files.
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>First, could this be possible? If so, how to solve this? Is it possible that when this error happens that the program could be suspended for some minutes ande resume?
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>Thanks beforehand.
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