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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