Hi guys,

To back up fmserver we have found that we have to use the command "fmserver pause" before the backup will commence. Once backup is finished we then have to use the command "fmserver resume".

How do you guys manage your backups? Been thinking that perhaps we have to create a DOS script to do this and have it execute at say 2am?

Sorry - I am running FM6, Server 5.5 and XP for this question

Platform?? Can you update your profile?

I'm running Server 5.5 on OS X.

I have FM Server's scheduled backup copy the databases to a local secondary hard drive, then run a network Retrospect backup nightly on the secondary drive only. You could just backup to a folder, or directly to a network volume, but I like the speed of a local drive and the redundancy of a second hard drive in case the primary hard drive fails. My FM backup schedule runs three times a day.

Server 5.5 does not host FMP 7 files, so your response above it a bit ambiguous.

Like Ender I get FM Server to backup its own files. Set up a Schedule to backup the files to a local directory (or even a remote volume but it's slower: I only backup to remote volumes at night). FMP then manages the pausing and resuming of the hosted files itself.

If you want to use a third-party backup utility, make sure it ignors the FMP files that are actually being hosted. Let it only backup the backed-up files.

woops It's friday.. i'm having a friday moment.... i'm running fm7 on this computer for testing, but all my other databases are version 6 still and this question is in regards to version 6 databases on server 5.5.