>I understand. But I would like to be able to do a backup - on demand - right from the VFP application.
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>>SQL Server has scheduled backup built-in. You can do it all from there.
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I would like to add to my VFP application (when using SQL Server database) a feature of backing up the database. Also it would be nice if this "backup procedure" would be able to specify where (folder name) the back up should be saved. Has anybody done something like this?

You can use the TSQL Backup command to do a backup of a database. Look in help.