RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-02-07 Thread Rick Schummer
, 2017 12:33 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: CleverFox Backup At 15:41 2017-02-01, "Rick Schummer" <pro...@whitelightcomputing.com> wrote: [snip] >I mean, who writes their own reindexing routine for Visual FoxPro data >these days? (rhetorical question)

RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-02-02 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 15:41 2017-02-01, "Rick Schummer" wrote: [snip] I mean, who writes their own reindexing routine for Visual FoxPro data these days? (rhetorical question) What is the point here? That it is difficult or simple? I have an class associated with

RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-02-01 Thread Rick Schummer
question) Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 01:54 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: CleverFox Backup

RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-02-01 Thread Rick Schummer
Subject: Re: CleverFox Backup The thing is, with a database that is shared over many DBF files unless you can exclusively lock each one at a given point and then back them all up before unlocking you will never be sure you have a valid snapshot in time. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Peter Cushing wrote: > The backup server is only available to IT users, so we should be ok if an > ordinary user becomes infected. Yes we are at risk if an IT user gets > infected but we are SO much more careful ;-) Hahaha! Thanks

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-31 Thread Peter Cushing
On 30/01/2017 13:39, Ted Roche wrote: Peter: I would have a concern if the backup server can be connected-to over the same network containing the primary data, you have a risk that malware on connecting machines (ransomware is the current concern, but not the only one) could contaminate both the

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Peter Cushing wrote: > We created our own here by having a baseline data set on a backup server and > then zap each table and append from the live data. You then keep all the > database properties with the stored data. You have to

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-30 Thread Peter Cushing
On 27/01/2017 19:25, Ted Roche wrote: And how do you grab all the indexes, including that new one you added last week? And the free tables as well as the ones in the DBC. And don't forget the captions and stored procedures in the DBC. I mean, how hard can it be? Selling utilities to

RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-30 Thread José Enrique Llopis
+1 -Mensaje original- De: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] En nombre de mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Enviado el: domingo, 29 de enero de 2017 5:37 Para: ProFox Email List Asunto: Re: CleverFox Backup On 2017-01-27 14:25, Ted Roche wrote: > Or you could pay some

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-28 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-01-27 14:25, Ted Roche wrote: Or you could pay someone else to do it for you, mark it up and charge it to the customer. Oh I definitely think they've got what sounds like a great product, and I only wish I had lots of Fox databases out there so that I *could* become a reseller...but

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-27 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:54 PM, wrote: > Can't you just do a FLOCK() and then SELECT * from Source into table > c:\backup\Target ? Well, sure. What happens if FLOCK fails because someone left their machine on all night? And how do you grab all the

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-27 Thread Alan Bourke
The thing is, with a database that is shared over many DBF files unless you can exclusively lock each one at a given point and then back them all up before unlocking you will never be sure you have a valid snapshot in time. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 27 Jan

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-27 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2017-01-27 06:02, Man-wai Chang wrote: Always wrote our own Foxpro routines to backup and/or do data transfer (sometimes using external data compression programs) It's not that complicated. :) On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Rick Schummer wrote: SET

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-27 Thread Man-wai Chang
Always wrote our own Foxpro routines to backup and/or do data transfer (sometimes using external data compression programs) It's not that complicated. :) On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Rick Schummer wrote: > SET MARKETING ON && for those who are not

RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-26 Thread Richard Kaye
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:54 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: CleverFox Backup Hi Mike, Sorry for the delay in responding, it is tax season and our software generates 1099s so my time for forums and this list is very limited. I'm glad I took a quick break and saw this today

RE: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-26 Thread Rick Schummer
Hi Mike, Sorry for the delay in responding, it is tax season and our software generates 1099s so my time for forums and this list is very limited. I'm glad I took a quick break and saw this today. Yes, I'm a partner at Forward Thinking Software along with Frank Perez. We started building it

Re: CleverFox Backup

2017-01-10 Thread Alan Bourke
Interesting indeed .. will keep it in mind. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, at 03:23 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: > Rick's snippet from from my last thread: > > > Ransomware is probably the number one reason we get new