Hi James,
This task can indeed be messy, for all the reasons Nello mentioned. I've seen
some single-user apps ask the user if a backup is required as they exit the
app. I have a very large (and very old) multi-user Paradox app which does some
inter-office transfer stuff during the night. I do a zip backup afterwards, but
first I test that no users are loggin in. If the database is small, you could
just query the complete tables and then write the backup as you wish. Not
elegant, but at least multi-user.
Cheers,
Craig.
James Sugrue wrote:
> I want to backup (zip) some Paradox files, while the application that is
> using them is still running. What is the best way to go about this ?
>
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