>>>I'm looking for a good backup / restore utility that I can incorporate in my program.
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>>What exactly do you want to do through this utility? Is this simply a mechanism to make copies of data for the app before shutting down, or are you looking for a more general purpose application that can address other issues like the registry, instant system recovery after a hard crash, multi-system backup?
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>Just a simple backup process to archive the data in the event of system problems.. Some of my users have old machines that keep locking up and are getting the corrupt table messages...

You might look into DynaZip, an ActiveX that can ZIP/UNZIP files, or WInZip, which now has added a command-line control option.