Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
Mike, I used Duplicati some years ago to automatically sync some folder via ftp to a remote box. Other than that I always was happy with RoboCopy (builtin Windows command).
Copying open files like dbf / cdx etc is nice but renders them unusable at the target, thus it doesn't make too much sense. If he wants to have a working data copy from an in-use application, then you need to build a little helper program, which just loops through all dbfs with a simple ADIR(aFiles, "*.DBF") and USE it, then COPY ALL WITH CDX to a different folder. That folder is then transferred by Duplicati (or whatever tool you prefer).
If you have DBC bound data, then first copy that DBC to the target (also with USE/COPY TO), then loop through the DBC based on ADBObj(aFiles, "TABLE") and then COPY WITH CDX DATABASE <dbName>. That way the long fieldnames etc survive.
wOOdy
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] Im Auftrag von mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Gesendet: Samstag, 9. Dezember 2017 06:55 An: ProFox profox@leafe.com Betreff: [NF] Duplicati
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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I'm looking for a new offsite backup solution. I've been a longtime Crashplan user and one thing I love about it is the summary reports I receive by email. I can see when my son's computer was backed up last when he's away at college. Same for my parents. Yes, I have called them to restart their Crashplan backup service if they haven't been backed up for 3 days or so. Unfortunately, Crashplan is ending their Home service and their Business service is too expensive to continue with.
I've even started writing my own backup program in Xojo to duplicate the Crashplan functionality but I'm stumbling on the cross-platform (must be Win, Mac and Linux) file encryption part. It gets complicated when deciding how to approach backing up large files such as video files. In all of my spare time, right? I'd rather buy, and create in this case. If I use the DigitialOcean S3 service, I think my expense will be $10-$12 per month to back up 5 computers. That's about the right price point. I just need to stop this sleeping habit I've had.
Do you know if Duplicati has a reporting feature as I described above?
-Kevin
On 12/09/2017 12:55 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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Slightly drifting off the topic focus, but this fellow's solution was to build his own cloud server with less that $300 worth of hardware and $1500 worth of disks. Not counting power costs, this is going to run around $30 a month for 5 years (assuming all the hardware is zero at 60 months). You have the problem, of course, that whereever the storag ends up is in danger of fire, floods, catastrophes and unavailability.
http://blog.quindorian.org/2017/08/diy-cloud-backup-replacing-crashplan-home...
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
I'm looking for a new offsite backup solution. I've been a longtime Crashplan user and one thing I love about it is the summary reports I receive by email. I can see when my son's computer was backed up last when he's away at college. Same for my parents. Yes, I have called them to restart their Crashplan backup service if they haven't been backed up for 3 days or so. Unfortunately, Crashplan is ending their Home service and their Business service is too expensive to continue with.
I've even started writing my own backup program in Xojo to duplicate the Crashplan functionality but I'm stumbling on the cross-platform (must be Win, Mac and Linux) file encryption part. It gets complicated when deciding how to approach backing up large files such as video files. In all of my spare time, right? I'd rather buy, and create in this case. If I use the DigitialOcean S3 service, I think my expense will be $10-$12 per month to back up 5 computers. That's about the right price point. I just need to stop this sleeping habit I've had.
Do you know if Duplicati has a reporting feature as I described above?
-Kevin
On 12/09/2017 12:55 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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[image: MailTag] I've used Backblaze with success. You can't backup open files but it's a simple operation to make current copies of all tables/indices/memos and back those up.
----------------------------- Michael Oke, II okeind@gmail.com 661-349-6221 -----------------------------
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
Slightly drifting off the topic focus, but this fellow's solution was to build his own cloud server with less that $300 worth of hardware and $1500 worth of disks. Not counting power costs, this is going to run around $30 a month for 5 years (assuming all the hardware is zero at 60 months). You have the problem, of course, that whereever the storag ends up is in danger of fire, floods, catastrophes and unavailability.
http://blog.quindorian.org/2017/08/diy-cloud-backup- replacing-crashplan-home-family-diy-style.html/
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
I'm looking for a new offsite backup solution. I've been a longtime Crashplan user and one thing I love about it is the summary reports I receive by email. I can see when my son's computer was backed up last
when
he's away at college. Same for my parents. Yes, I have called them to restart their Crashplan backup service if they haven't been backed up
for 3
days or so. Unfortunately, Crashplan is ending their Home service and
their
Business service is too expensive to continue with.
I've even started writing my own backup program in Xojo to duplicate the Crashplan functionality but I'm stumbling on the cross-platform (must be Win, Mac and Linux) file encryption part. It gets complicated when
deciding
how to approach backing up large files such as video files. In all of my spare time, right? I'd rather buy, and create in this case. If I use
the
DigitialOcean S3 service, I think my expense will be $10-$12 per month to back up 5 computers. That's about the right price point. I just need to stop this sleeping habit I've had.
Do you know if Duplicati has a reporting feature as I described above?
-Kevin
On 12/09/2017 12:55 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
wrote:
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
I'd be willing to bet they've never done any disaster recovery exercises to find out whether that's a good idea.
I used to use a similar tool with FirebirdSQL that would dump the sql tables then transfer the backed up files to an ftp site. Looking for something similar to back up partition backup images off site. I may try this and give a review. I think if I can mount one of the backup images, that would be a success.
Paul
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On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
I'd be willing to bet they've never done any disaster recovery exercises to find out whether that's a good idea.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, at 05:55 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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Have you checked out CleverFox (https://cleverfoxbackup.com/)? It's from Rick Schummer and Frank Perez.
Eric
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
I used to use a similar tool with FirebirdSQL that would dump the sql tables then transfer the backed up files to an ftp site. Looking for something similar to back up partition backup images off site. I may try this and give a review. I think if I can mount one of the backup images, that would be a success.
Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm
wrote:
including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
I'd be willing to bet they've never done any disaster recovery exercises to find out whether that's a good idea.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, at 05:55 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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On 2017-12-11 09:04, Eric Selje wrote:
Have you checked out CleverFox (https://cleverfoxbackup.com/)? It's from Rick Schummer and Frank Perez.
Eric
I'm using CleverFox for 2 of my clients and it's great. Very easy to setup, and for just $10/month, well worth the convenience and speed for me. It handled a 600MB VFP free tables folder in under 2 minutes!
Rick -- for all our Fox friends here, speak to how CleverFox handles open VFP tables.
" I think if I can mount one of the backup images, that would be a success."
That is the only test on your backup plan. I have to mount/restore 20% of my databases a month out of our backup plan in a variety of backup modes. We use on-site .bak files, those same files off-site in a cloud system as well as a warm backup of on a virtual server in the cloud.
We user Restore Point as our cloud provider and the tools are Actifio as well as Asigra.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Paul H. Tarver paul@tpcqpc.com wrote:
I used to use a similar tool with FirebirdSQL that would dump the sql tables then transfer the backed up files to an ftp site. Looking for something similar to back up partition backup images off site. I may try this and give a review. I think if I can mount one of the backup images, that would be a success.
Paul
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm
wrote:
including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
I'd be willing to bet they've never done any disaster recovery exercises to find out whether that's a good idea.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, at 05:55 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open).
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And Syncback ...
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of AndyHC Sent: 11 December 2017 16:41 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Duplicati
... and there's ms SyncToy ....
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Defunct IIRC.
On 11-Dec-2017 11:51 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Defunct IIRC.
Well most Win 7 stuff works on Win 10 - and the ms SynToy forum says: "Select .Net Framework 3.5 to install. Then install SyncToy 2.1 as usual."
I **assume ** that later versions are backward compatible - or are we now in .Net hell?
I **assume ** that later versions are backward compatible - or are we now in .Net hell?
YMMV but I've never had an issue with backward compatibility and .NET.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration-guide/version-co...
On 2017-12-12 04:19, AndyHC wrote:
On 11-Dec-2017 11:51 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Defunct IIRC.
Well most Win 7 stuff works on Win 10 - and the ms SynToy forum says: "Select .Net Framework 3.5 to install. Then install SyncToy 2.1 as usual."
I **assume ** that later versions are backward compatible - or are we now in .Net hell?
IS there a DotNet hell? I thought that went away with DotNet.
The latest versions of .Net Framework are already there in Win 8 & 10. This puts in the framework from XP days, 3.5. That being said, NO the frameworks are not fully backward compatible. They have removed the old funky stuff that they thought nobody would ever consider needing as they are moving forward.
This is a good breakdown on versions. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/sujit9923/net-framework-features-fro...
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 AM, < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
On 2017-12-12 04:19, AndyHC wrote:
On 11-Dec-2017 11:51 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Defunct IIRC.
Well most Win 7 stuff works on Win 10 - and the ms SynToy forum says:
"Select .Net Framework 3.5 to install. Then install SyncToy 2.1 as usual."
I **assume ** that later versions are backward compatible - or are we now in .Net hell?
IS there a DotNet hell? I thought that went away with DotNet.
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In Windows 10 if a program needs it, you will be prompted to install it automatically.
But if you wish you can go in the old style Control Panel, Windows Features, and turn on ".NET Framework 3.5".
Install the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install/dotnet-35-windows-...
Gianni
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:59:34 -0600, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
The latest versions of .Net Framework are already there in Win 8 & 10. This puts in the framework from XP days, 3.5. That being said, NO the frameworks are not fully backward compatible. They have removed the old funky stuff that they thought nobody would ever consider needing as they are moving forward.
This is a good breakdown on versions. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/sujit9923/net-framework-features-fro...
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 AM, < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
On 2017-12-12 04:19, AndyHC wrote:
On 11-Dec-2017 11:51 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Defunct IIRC.
Well most Win 7 stuff works on Win 10 - and the ms SynToy forum says:
"Select .Net Framework 3.5 to install. Then install SyncToy 2.1 as usual."
I **assume ** that later versions are backward compatible - or are we now in .Net hell?
IS there a DotNet hell? I thought that went away with DotNet.
In practice no.
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