FMP unlimited and automatic back up

[ColinCh]

Hi,

Using FMP Server, we have an automatic back up of our databases. However, we can't connect to them from a web browser.

Using FMP U, we can connect to databases from a web browser. What's about back up of databases managed by FMP U ? If the back up process isn't include in FMP U, have we to close databases before save manually them ?

Thanks in advance for your help

Christian

[Anatoli]

Why not connect FMU to FM server, which is backing databases?

[ColinCh]

Connecting FMU to FM server is a good idea for backing databases. However, does someone test this configuration ? How can FM server back up databases without no problem since databases are not closed ? Databases are used by FMU. So, could back up be corrupted ?

Christian

[Will]

FileMaker Server pauses the databases before backing them up, then releases them once they are backed up thus avoiding corruping them.

Will

[ColinCh]

I know that FMP server pauses its own databases before backing them. However, in the case where databases are simultaneously used by FMP server and FM unlimited, how can FMP server pauses databases still used by FMU ? Does it do accurately ?

[scratchmalogicalwax]

Any changes currently being made on the database open on the client machine (FMPro U) while the database is paused are held in cache and sent to the server (written to disk) when the database is available again. Unless you have many large databases and if you have a quick machine back up takes seconds to perform so not much cache is used anyway.

Server client interaction can be changed in properties as well. You can choose to write to disk during idle time (with modern machines there is a lot of this so this can be read as after each key stroke or CDML action) or you can set the client to write every 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, which of course uses FMPro cache. Cache is increased (on a Mac classic OS) by allocating the application more memory (file -> get info) in OSX the cache size can be altered directly in application prefs.

hope this makes it a little clearer