[DXBase] adding a backup feature to DXBase
Garth A. Hamilton - VE3HO
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2003年2月25日 16:27:00 -0500
If you back up with DXBase open still you will not have the latest up to date copy of your database, but rather the one that was there when you opened DXBase the last time. DXBase holds lots of information in hand and on closing writes that information to your database files indices and tables with the latest closing information. So to properly backup your database you need to it after closing DXBase.
Take a look at the activity in the lower left corner showing what is being written to at shut down and you can then appreciate how much information you might be missing after you restore from a backup done while DXBase is open.
73 Garth VE3HO
At 03:12 PM 25.02.2003 -0600, FireBrick wrote:
>Couple days ago I posted a way to create .bat file to backup DXBase critical
>files.
>My version was based on Tony Cash's batch file.
>>Well duh! Don't know why I didn't think of this.
>But I used the Programs Menu feature to create a 'Backup' by Adding it to
>the Menu.
>So I don't even have to close DXB.
>For some reason while you can't Copy/Paste your .mdb file with DXBase open
>using Windows Explorer.
>I can run the batch file from within DXBase and it will copy files with no
>problem.
>I think Windows Explorer will not allow you to move a file currently being
>used by a program.
>But the batch file, which runs in a Dos box, will.
>>Remember if you haven't backed up...it's not a question of IF. just a matter
>of WHEN!
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