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Roy Ellis
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Hello, 1) yes but even better, you can create a single job in Fathom/OpenEdge Management to run a script to do the backups. You would not need a different script for each time period. 2) yes you could write your scripts to rename or move older backups as you wish. You could write different scripts or incorporate them into your backup scripts. But let me say you are not using Fathom/OpenEdge Management to its fullest capabilities. 1) you can use Fathom/OpenEdge Management to schedule the jobs. One script and a few jobs schedules would do it. 2) if you run the scripts from Fathom/OEMgt you could run PERL scripts over batch scripts. PERL is embedded in the Fathom install. PERL will give you many more capabilities over DOS-batch files. Using PERL you could pass environment variables set in your Fathom/OEMgt job. You could call the date function and all your backup file names could include the date and time, making them unique. Also using Fathom/OEMgt to run the scripts you can trend the success and/or failure of the scripts and how long they run (important since as database size increase so does the backup time). You can also have Fathom/OEMgt send an alert if a script fails and even try to re-run the script. Hope this helps, Roy
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