This won't solve past problems, but should be done for the future:
Any backup procedure should keep several copies of the backed-up files.
One backup system I designed a while ago, based exclusively on batch files, kept nine or ten folders. The batch file renamed folder1 to folder2, folder2 to folder3, etc., and finally copied a backup of the data folder to folder1.
Currently I am using another approach:
1) An exe (created from a VFP-PRG file) creates a string corresponding to the current date, and passes it to a batch file.
2) The batch file copies the data folder (otherwise, the backup will fail if somebody happens to be using the system), erase un-needed files, and invokes a compression utility.
Regards, Hilmar.
>Craig, if I copy a plain old dbf file and overwrite it for backup everynite to a shared network drive, is there any trace or recovery possible to get previouse copies?
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