Hank, 190M is obviously a lot of data to backup. Are you backing up everything in the DXbase folder and subfolders?
If you're not compacting your .mdb database, you might consider using Access Maintainer, a free utility that is a snap to use. Once you install it, you can right click on an Access database file in Windows Explorer (My Computer), and an option is to compact the database. (Do it with DXbase shut down.) The web site is http://www.gracemere.com/AccessMaintainer/ For the faint of heart, you may want to make a backup copy of the database first, but I have had no problems with it. I also use it on the DX spot database in AR-Cluster too (I am a sysop), and it's very effective on that too. Jim N7US -------Original Message------- From: Hank Kohl K8DD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05/08/03 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DXBase] Backup batch file > > At 5/8/2003 01:00 PM -0400, Garth A. Hamilton - VE3HO wrote: >If you create a batch files that open the program DXBase and have the call >to DXBase in the first line and then program you backup in the lines >following the call to DXBase, the batch file will make the call to DXBase >and then wait to get control back when DXBase closes and then it will >execute the additional lines of code and run your backup as detailed in >your batch file. > >73 Garth For Windows 2000 you would use ntbackup.exe My batch file looks like this (without the /m switch): d:\dxbase 2004\dxbase2004.exe ntbackup backup D:\dxbase2004 /j "Command Line Backup 4" /f "R:\DXB2004.bkf" /m incremental|differential|daily The D:\dxbase2004 would be replaced with where ever your DXbase files are located. The "R:\DXB2004.bkf" can be replaced with where ever you want to put the backup file .... it could even be a CD-RW, in which case you might want to rotate discs on a 5 day (or week - whatever backup strategy you are going to use) cycle. It takes me 4 min 28 sec to back up 198Mb of DXbase2004 to a network drive over a 10Mbs ethernet connection. The command line would, of course, be different for other operating systems that have a backup utility built into them. I haven't written one for XP yet, but I'm sure it would look somewhat the same. 73 Hank K8DD
