On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0100, Chris Jewell wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, diff would work and is my current plan, but it requires me to > perform the backup first. What I needed really was a system by which a > backup would only be run if there was something that needed backing up. I believe he meant diffing the files that store the tables. Another possibility that I think would work would be checking the last-modified timestamp of all the files in a schema. Though the easiest way to do that is probably to build a list of any files that have changed since the last backup and then figure out what schemas they're in. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend