Using file copies for Website

[Chad]

We're running our production databases on one machine using FM Server 5 and we use automatic backup to back up those files each night. Using Visual Basic, we copy the backup files to our web server (separate machine) and want to open them in FM Pro Unlimited 5 to allow access to more than 10 web users. In order to do this we would have to close the day old files on the web server, then copy the new backup files and open those in the Unlimited application.

Does anybody know of an easy way to do this or know of something that has already been created? Thanks!

[Rick]

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Originally posted by Chad:

We're running our production databases on one machine using FM Server 5 and we use automatic backup to back up those files each night. Using Visual Basic, we copy the backup files to our web server (separate machine) and want to open them in FM Pro Unlimited 5 to allow access to more than 10 web users. In order to do this we would have to close the day old files on the web server, then copy the new backup files and open those in the Unlimited application.

Does anybody know of an easy way to do this or know of something that has already been created? Thanks!

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Yes..

First, get a plug in that trigers scripts automatically.. place it on the server machine. Tehn, create a script on the server that finds all records on the server and then exports them as txt file or filemaker file, then trigger a script on the unlimited databases that import records from the export file.. You should set it to match records in the current found set and add remaining records..

I think that that might work... .