>Hi all,
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>Can anyone recommend a Backup and Restore library that can be called from VFP 5 with compression features and that can be backup to harddisk, diskettes, zip drive?

You can try these few things :-

For compression there is a utility available called foxsqz, available here only in files section..

you can contact pkzip if they have any such ocx or some way to link with foxpro is available

check Win NT forum, lot of backup utilities are discussed...