Leopard/Time Machine/Backup for Servoy/ASA?

Classic Servoy
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Hi,

I’m playing around with Leopard. Don’t plan to use it yet entirely but one question intrigues me regarding using the backup system that comes with Leopard (Time Machine).

If you use Time Machine as your backup mechanism it does its thing while you are actively using an application. Does anyone have any idea how this works/doesn’t work while using Servoy and iAnywhere? Presumably it does back up the databases but at one point? And can they be restored? It would be possible that if the application is running, then it is in the process of updating/inserting/deleting. If you are writing a ‘Word’ document during the process, I’m sure it simply backs up to whatever your latest ‘Save’ was. But how would that work with iAnywhere? Last Commit? Currently I use an application for Tiger called ‘SuperDuper’ which does a very nice back up, copying exactly and making an actual bootable copy of your hard disk. Using that I always shut down dbsrv9. But maybe I don’t have to and perhaps Leopard can make constant, restorable backups of my current Servoy work every hour or whatever. Anyone tried this?

John

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Hi John,

Timemachine does only a backup of the files.

Issue you will bump into, as with every backup method that you will use, you can not backup a Sybase (and many others) database like this.
You really need to either close down the database or create a backup event.

For this reason I excluded the database folders from the backup.

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Hi Marcel,

OK. I guess I was thinking that a database too is a file that at some point ‘might’ be stable enough to back up. Like with a word or a excel file I think you can back those up when open because a good backup program simply goes to the last, stable, saved state. Until now I’ve always simply done my back ups like you by shutting down the database before backing up (for my ‘Developing’ solutions). I’m sure you’re probably right and that is the only way to do it other than setting up a backup schedule within Sybase Central. But maybe I’ll play around with it just to see what happens! Would be very handy for forgetful/lazy guys like me! :D