filepro and saving data

[Christopher Yerry]

>What is the limitation/downside of doing a back-up,
rsync, or >any other 
>attempt to reduce the data lose window between
back-ups on an >active 
>filepro system with remote users?

>Are there any suggestions on how to maintain to
duplicate linked 
>filepro 
>system?

>Thanks,

>Richard D. Williams

Richard my recommendation is to write a procedure that
reads your updated table (aka remote computer dumps
the records that have been changed after the set date
(the date they took the data) do a compare on update
dates (see if anyone else changed any updated and
changed records while they were had the data. and do
the following.
    1 -  Add any new records
    2 - Add any updated records that have not been
changed on the master
    3 - manually go through the changed records, and
manually fix them

# 3 usually happens rarely so it is not usually a
problem if it is you may want to consider a big non
filepro solution (remote web service etc)


Comment:
as far as releasing our web service to others (which I
had offered to do) I am getting mixed opinions from my
people here as to releasing it.(wailing and gnashing
of teeth may be a better metaphor) I would be glad to
walk anyone else through what we did; but we are not
in agreement in letting into the public domain --- and
we haven't talked to filepro about it either)


Christopher Yerry
CM Software
715 441 6175
    

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