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Create a Dos batch file mention the following dos command in batch file<br />
copy &lt;your data directory\*.*&gt; your backup directory name<br />
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Call the batch file either using any app. or win' scheduler. Be sure during the period your fox app./dbf should not be used by any user other wise it will give error.<br />
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Regards,<br />
Bm Keshav<br />

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Create a Dos batch file mention the following dos command in batch file
copy <your data directory\*.*> your backup directory name

Call the batch file either using any app. or win' scheduler. Be sure during the period your fox app./dbf should not be used by any user other wise it will give error.

Regards,
Bm Keshav


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I am quite unfamiliar with FoxPro and I am just looking to create a simple nightly cold backup. I can do this with SQL Server and Oracle but shutting down the database, then copying the datafiles. I am not sure how to do this in FoxPro. <br />
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Every backup article I find online is related to a hot backup. While a hot backup would be ideal, it seems there are no clean cut solutions without a 3rd party utility. A cold backup would be fine as it's not a database that needs to be online constantly.<br />
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I am quite unfamiliar with FoxPro and I am just looking to create a simple nightly cold backup. I can do this with SQL Server and Oracle but shutting down the database, then copying the datafiles. I am not sure how to do this in FoxPro. 

Every backup article I find online is related to a hot backup. While a hot backup would be ideal, it seems there are no clean cut solutions without a 3rd party utility. A cold backup would be fine as it's not a database that needs to be online constantly.



Cold Backup of Visual FoxPro 7

Visual FoxPro (VFP), and its predecessor FoxPro, is a data-centric, object-oriented, procedural, database programming language and IDE from Microsoft last released in 2007 that still has some active use due to its low cost of deployment and fairly rapid development. In 2008, Microsoft released a set of add-ons for VFP's xBase components to allow interoperability with various Microsoft technologies. It allows data processing against its native file-based data tables or database servers such as SQL Server.