Could someone point me to any resources about creating an Applescript to archive the databases?

I need to run a script every few hours from FM Server 5 that will archive and date name backups. I looked around a little but didn't turn anything up. I'm sure that this has been covered and I'm probably missing it.

I dont know how it can be make in MAC, but in Windows i with Send Message script execute rar.exe with necessary parameters.

Search this forum, I posted an Applescript a few months ago on this topic either in AppleScript or Server forums.

--tell application "FileMaker Developer"

tell window 1

set file_bakTxt to cell "_cFile_bak"

-- complete file path of backup file

set file_zip to cell "_cFile_zip"

-- same but for zip file

end tell

--end tell

tell application "Finder"

set thePath to quoted form of POSIX path of file_bakTxt

set savePath to quoted form of POSIX path of file_zip

do shell script ("/usr/bin/ditto -c -k -rsrc --keepParent " & thePath & " " & savePath)

end tell