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dBase version 3 Backups
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| Matt Koop 2006-03-31, 1:23 pm |
| I have a 30 Gig dBase Version 3 (very old) flat file. Is it possible to run differential nightly backups of this?
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| Bowen Moursund [DataTech] 2006-04-02, 8:23 pm |
| >I have a 30 Gig dBase Version 3 (very old) flat file.
I doubt that <smile>. DBFs larger than 2GB are inaccessible by dBASE.
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| Matt Koop 2006-04-04, 11:24 am |
| You are correct. (I don't know much about Dbase) We are trying to backup a 30 gig file for a client that contains a dBase III database within it amongst other things like an Outlook database with other data as well using Veritas. We want to backup the c
ore 30 gigs inititally and then run differetial backups every night after that. Is this possible to do if Dbase III is a part of that backup?
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| David Kerber 2006-04-04, 1:24 pm |
| In article <Ul0ygJAWGHA.2092@news-server>, mkoop@gobiztech.com says...
> You are correct. (I don't know much about Dbase) We are trying to backup a 30 gig file for a client that contains a dBase III database within it amongst other things like an Outlook database with other data as well using Veritas. We want to backup the
core 30 gigs inititally and then run differetial backups every night after that. Is this possible to do if Dbase III is a part of that backup?
If by differential you mean just backing up the changed records in the
..dbf file, I don't think so. It will back up the entire file if it has
changed. However, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to back up
the entire .dbf file as part of the backup routine, as long as it's not
opened exclusively by the application which uses it.
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| Mark Ziburis 2006-04-06, 11:24 am |
| A file cannot possibly contain all of these things. A dBase database is
composed of multiple files (both data and indexes). As the saying goes,
files are files. It makes no difference in regards to backups except
that your backup destination can only hold so much information. You
should not be using the same tapes or disks for subsequent backups, so
nothing about this sounds like you ought to have any issues. dBase
files are not very large (as Bowen noted) and should not present any
issues concerning backups.
Mark Ziburis
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