On 2014-06-24 19:14, Dan Covill wrote:
I'm not a fan of "Push", too many ways for it not to get there. I'd just query the server. A few years ago (say, about 20!) I did something like this for a 'live' backup system. FoxPro DOS system with 30 workstations, traffic got to where daily night backups just wouldn't cut it. I used a workstation on the LAN and wrote a program that queried the server every 10 minutes and check the record count on all the key DBFs. If it was greater than the one on the backup copies (which it almost always was), I copied the records from (old last rec) to (new last rec). Worked like a charm, with little/no effect on server response. Had to start from scratch whenever we packed the server, but that was no problem. Servers are there to respond, not to initiate actions. Let it do its thing, and when you want to find out something, just query it. Dan
<<Applause from the gentleman from Owings Mills, MD, signaling his obvious agreement with Mr. Covill>>
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