Start/Stop FMP for backups

[Steve Buchan]

How are folks scriptng startup and shutdown of FMP to allow for nice clean retrospect (or other) backups of their fmp7 files?

thanks in advance,

Steve

[Deep Thought II]

if u have FM server, it can backup for u automatically. otherwise, Save a copy as would do too.

[Wim Decorte]

It's not very hard to script the closing of FMP using AppleScript or VBscript but you have no control or way of checking if all the files are indeed closed properly or to kick stray users off.

Using FMS you can do all that.

[Steve Buchan]

thanks ... will use applescript.

wondered if anyone had generated a timed script. I guess I could kick it off with cron.