Does anyone know of an easy way to backup access databases?
I think I saw someone once talk about setting up a ‘scheduled task’ to email you files at certain predefined intervals. Is this possible with a database file? Anyone willing to point me in the write direction?
Any other ideas?
I would think that scheduling an FTP job on your own PC to download the .MDB file would be the simplest way.
I see the icon in the control panel which seems to simply let you schedule a program to start running, but how do I specifically get my PC to do something like this?
You could buy a program like TurboFTP. It has scheduling features.
http://www.turboftp.com/
Or you could play with some freeware to do it.
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/ftpc.html
That page has a couple of programs that claim to do ftp scheduling. “FTP Scheduler” and “MegaDork Auto FTP”.
If you want to be really geeky, you can even use the Windows command line FTP program. It actually supports scripts.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=96269
You could schedule this to run as a batch file from the Windows Scheduled Tasks.
That being said, I’ve never actually done/used any of this. Have fun.
I will - thanks!
looks like ftpscheduler is working perfectly! thanks again…