Turning 60 this year. :)
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 4:33 PM Tracy Pearson tracy@powerchurch.com wrote:
You'll have trouble the same way if a user is saving the Word or Excel file. Writing to tables locks a portion of the table, and sometimes all of the table which can cause copy failures.. You've been out of the VFP for a couple of years and haven't worked with DBFs for longer. We'll forgive your older age and forgetfulness.
Tracy
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 5:29 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Creating a copy of a database -- best practice?
Would the table or index not be included? I get backups of word and excel files if they are open.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:40 PM mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On 2019-02-28 07:08, Stephen Russell wrote:
Why not make a compressed file of the entire folder where the data lies? After file is created move it to a different machine off the network.
Because I think open DBFs would present a problem with that approach???
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