>Season Greetings to all
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>I have been providing a backup facility using xcopy, copy, zip, "my old dos compressed program" etc to backup clients data in vfp applications they use. What do other programers provide as a backup facility with their applications?? Can someone point me to the right direction please . . . TIA.
>Shafid
This is more or less what I have done, especially when I worked at Bata Shoe Organization.
Note that it is safer to do an XCOPY or similar when nobody is using the data. In other words, the backup that I did at midnight, I considered my main backup; I did another backup at noon, just in case, but I didn't keep it in the long run.
Download #10099 might help you implement the backup for different cases; just put all your options (folder to be backed up, files to be excluded, compression command, etc.) into a text file.
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