It is not safe to have any .10x files on any drive that is visible to the
machine that is going to serve the files to other machines. The easiest
solution is to never copy .10x files for backup but to zip them instead.
Running FMP Sever has fewer restrictions as it only opens files in a certain
directory or one level down from that directory. Alternately you can put
backups on drives that are not network accessible, but that is highly
dependent on the details of your backup mechanism. Put them on a drive that
is not normally shared. Then when you shutdown FM to do the backup, share
the backup drive, do the backup and unshare the drive.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arif Mamdani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 3:15 AM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] a follow up to my "odd win2k question"
>
>
> Okay, so I figured out what was happening -- and this is weird!
> The Windows
> 2000 machine in question lives on a network. On this network is a server
> that houses the organization's files. The Win2k box in question
> was opening
> Ebase, but not from cached copies, nor from local copies as I and
> others had
> suspected, but was instead being very precocious in that it was loading
> Ebase from a backup stored on the network drive!
>
> By manually redirecting Filemaker to look on the local drive, and _then_
> hitting the hosts button, we can open Ebase correctly from the machine
> that's serving it. But every time we restart Filemaker, it's back to
> looking at the backup. Now the obvious solution is to remove the back/do
> the backup elsewhere, but i'm reluctant to do that, as that to some degree
> defeats the idea of having a server that's backed up. So, if
> anyone has any
> ideas on how to have this organization continue to use their network as a
> place to park files till they're backed up onto some other media
> while also keeping this one Win2k machine from trying to open the backups,
> I'd love to hear them.
>
> thanks,
> -arif
> --
> Arif Mamdani
> Circuit Rider
> LINC Project -- Welfare Law Center
> www.lincproject.org www.welfarelaw.org
> p: 212.633.6967
>
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