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Everyone - thanks for the input.

Not my system - client was not aware until recently when they had an outage. New equipment is ordered. Looking for a safe way to bring down the production appservers, webspeed, and database without corrupting anything. That's why I'm inquiring about the -kill and the -F

Wondering if anyone has used the -kill to stop their appservers and webspeed. Also proshut -F on the databases. Any ill effects of using these commands. Looking at a script to take the system down in a hurry during a power outage - limited UPS up time at the present. Thx for any input.

Anyone know if there is a readable text document of promsgs with carriage returns. Thx, Bill

OK - This mornings backup is 5.2GB with an online backup and a small BI (172 MB). This past weekend I backedup, prodelete, and restored into a new structure file with some larger storage areas - so we had a new BI file. Thanks for all of the input.

As of a couple minutes ago the bi was 172MB. I did maintenance on the clients db this weekend and noticed the difference where they store the backups. Weekends db's are shutdown and backed up and weekdays are online. I didn't check the script to see if they've truncated the db. I'll keep an...

Running the following commands probkup online db-name db-name.bk01 -com probkup db-name db-name.bk01 -com The offline backup is 5GB and the online backkup is 7.6GB consistently. Progress 10.1A Linux box. Anyone know why the backups are different sizes? Does the online store more info??