How is this different from just setting FMP Server's internal backup?
>Another _very_ useful and important routine to run is to set up a timed script
>in FileMaker that does a save as of the database(s). This ensures
>that there is an
>inert copy of the database that Retrospect can backup safely and a emergency
>copy available to use if a crash renders the original unusable.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Erik Ableson
>
>On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 03:39:25PM -0500, Jon Gardner wrote:
>> on 4/17/2000 1:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> >> I ran a backup on a test database and the backup ran without any errors
>> >> (while FileMaker was still running). I was then able to restore the
>> >> database from tape and open it -- no problems, but FileMaker Server was
>> >> never shutdown during the backup.
>> >
>> > I just ran a similar test and found that the database was backed
>>up, but some
>> > indices had to be rebuilt. Shutting down FileMaker should give
>>more reliable
>> > results. I just posted a very similar question to yours, before reading
>> > Friday's postings. It would be very nice if the server shutdown
>>script could
>> > somehow be triggered by the Retrospect Client, but I don't see a way to do
>> > that yet.
>>
>> Just set up a script in FileMaker Pro Server to backup all open databases at
>> a certain time, preferably just before the Retrospect script is set to run.
>> It's all built-in. Ours does it every night at 8:00 or something.
>
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