>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?

When I was using VFP, I always did the backups online. So, the application was always running. There is a clause in the COPY TO DBF or something like that. This will take a copy of your actual table and make it into a filename of your choice. To rebuild the index, I had a special program for that in case I would have add to recover from the backup tables.