Tim

I seem to remember a request for this a while back, and I think your answer was one of the I'll have a look and see versions. Is my memory correct and if so is it going to happen (maybe next year)?

With an app I'm working on I have a file which has to be read and used as part of the mechanism for opening the tables and if it gets lost the app is dead.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< I seem to remember a request for this a while back, and I think your
answer was one of the I'll have a look and see versions. Is my memory
correct and if so is it going to happen (maybe next year)? >>

The issue is having to add the bits to allow for backing up from files in a
store instead of a database (allow for just backing up other files from the
database directory alone isn't really useful), so it will probably end up
being a separate set of statements - BACKUP STORE and RESTORE STORE instead
of DATABASE.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Roy,

<<I seem to remember a request for this a while back, and I think your answer was one of the I'll have a look and see versions. Is my memory correct and if so is it going to happen (maybe next year)?

With an app I'm working on I have a file which has to be read and used as part of the mechanism for opening the tables and if it gets lost the app is dead.>>

In the mean time, have you considered using WinZip?  It does have a command-line addon utility so you can backup and restore files from your application.  (www.winzip.com).

Richard Harding

Richard


>In the mean time, have you considered using WinZip? It does have a command-line addon utility so you can backup and restore files from your application. (www.winzip.com).

Yup, or rolling my own backup system totally, or just telling people to make a copy of the file but Tim's inbuilt stuff is more attractive.

Roy Lambert

Tim

>The issue is having to add the bits to allow for backing up from files in a
>store instead of a database (allow for just backing up other files from the
>database directory alone isn't really useful), so it will probably end up
>being a separate set of statements - BACKUP STORE and RESTORE STORE instead
>of DATABASE.

As long as it works it could be ABRAKADABRA as far as I care

Roy Lambert

<<
With an app I'm working on I have a file which has to be read and used as part of the mechanism for opening the tables and if it gets lost the app is dead.
>>

Could you just store it in a separate table (as blob) ? Or does this file include info for opening the tables (table names or encryption) - still could use separate special session/table to store file but now steps get bit more complex.

Raul

Raul

>With an app I'm working on I have a file which has to be read and used as part of the mechanism for opening the tables and if it gets lost the app is dead.
>>>
>
>Could you just store it in a separate table (as blob) ? Or does this file include info for opening the tables (table names or encryption) - still could use separate special session/table to store file but now steps get bit more complex.

That's it exactly, it would have to be a separate session/database/table and without testing my memory says you can only back up a database not two of them together.

Roy Lambert