>>I'd like to incorporate backup capability from within an app.
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>>Any source code lying around that could help me with that?
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>For my application backup I have a procedure that ZIPs all files/tables in the DATA folder into BACKUP folder (or any other folder that user will define in the configuration file). It is very simple and it works well.
>I could share the code but it is all based on the 3P zip DLL.
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>HTH.

Thank you Dmitry for the feedback. I'm hoping for something entirely VFP code.