Back up filemaker server

[swf]

I am running FM server on windows xp. It is a brand new dedicated machine which only has xp and fm server. I have set fm server to backup nightly to the hard drive. However, it copies over the old version every day so I have at most 1 backup copy.

I would like to copy the backup daily to another directory (even another drive) and change the name.

eg. file is database.fp7. Copies to C:fmdatabackup daily. Now I want to copy each day and make database080405.fp7 and database080305.fp7 and database080205.fp7 and place these in D:fmdatabackup. I would like to keep this as simple as possible. Willing to write a small script but limited experience. Thanks

[Jukkie]

Hello swf,

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Greetings Jukkie

[DykstrL]

Here's how I do backups for my server:

I have 2 internal drives - one for OS and one for FMS and data files.

FMS backsup to a folder on the OS drive nightly.

I then have Task Scheduler copy the files to an external drive in specific folders. I have folders for every day for 4 weeks worth of backups.

It takes a while to setup the Task Scheduler tasks, but it works very nicely.

[merkaba22]

Is the Task Scheduler part of FM Server?

[Wim Decorte]

Have a look in the downloads section of my website. I wrote an article about this a short while ago.

www.connectingdata.com

[Sergeant Ron]

Perhaps you can create 7 different folders Monday thru Sunday. Then schedule 7 seperate backups each scheduled to backup once per week. Each day will then backup into a seperate folder. Similar to what DykstrL was saying except you can use FM Server to do your backing up.