On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Nils Blanck-Wehde wrote:

> Hi Alan,
> thanks for your reply.
> Unfortunately it's a proprietary DBMS on Windows :-(

Erk...

If you can shut the database down and dump it to filesystem at a preset
time in the middle of the night then the actual backup can take place at
any time after that.

The problem with backing up/restoring actual DB images is that while it
_usually_ works if the DB was shut down, there are odd edge cases where it
doesn't (not to mention that a DB dump is fairly portable).

> I am currently searching for a way to issue the shutdown command  in
> dependence of the current time. Obviously this isn't quite easy with a rich
> and full-featured scripting languange like msdos batch file scripting :-)

Windows does have a rudimentary cron system which is usable for this kind
of activity.

AB


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