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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Path: sparky!uunet!pgroup!lfm
- From: lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows)
- Subject: Filemaker Pro and Macdump summary
- Message-ID: <BxIwxv.Cpp@pgroup.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:22:43 GMT
- Organization: The Portland Group, Portland, OR
- Lines: 46
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- I got one request for further information from a gentleman at LLNL, but didn't
- save the message (sorry!). I also got the answer (Thanks, Kevin!):
-
- In article <BxAwIx.Bv1@pgroup.com> you wrote:
- :
- : <STUFF DELETED>
- : Seemed to work ok, but then we found that one of our Filemaker Pro (2.0)
- : files was 0 length! This file changes every day, so we went back one day
- : on the incremental -- same problem. Went back one more day, to Friday
- : night, and the file was there.
- :
- : The guess is that a network user left the Filemaker Pro database open
- : and the Dumper was unable to read it. So I have several questions:
-
- This is something that I have come across here at the SSC. In the library
- there are four big FMP datafiles in use. If they are not closed down
- they come up the same way. According to the folks at Claris this is
- because FMP flags the file as open and makes it to where no other application
- can do anything (include passive read) to it. So the senario is that the
- backup program (any backup program) gets the directory entry but no data...
- wala...a zero length file. So its not really a backup program issue but a
- FMP issue. One workaround....do your backup through an apple event type
- program (Frontier or QuickKeys) and force a close of the Filemaker
- Application before the backup program runs.
-
- What a rotten way to find out about FMP backup strangeness. Good luck on
- your data recovery.
-
- :
- : Thanks in advance, I'll summarize if it looks worthwhile.
- : --
- : Larry Meadows The Portland Group
- : lfm@pgroup.com
-
- Kevin Dunn (kevin_dunn@qmail.ssc.gov)
-
- So I guess one must close the databases if correct backup is expected -- and
- it appears that NO backup program will work any better. Of course, if I
- put the files on Unix then there will be no trouble -- but I have a hunch
- that FMP won't necessarily work correctly in that case. On to 4D+Oracle...
-
- lfm
- --
- Larry Meadows The Portland Group
- lfm@pgroup.com
-