ACC: How to Correctly Back Up Multiuser Databases This article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.| Article ID | : | 109816 | | Last Review | : | January 18, 2007 | | Revision | : | 2.1 |
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SUMMARY
In order to back up a multiuser database correctly, you must make sure that
you have exclusive access to the database. If you back up a database while
others are using it, you risk damaging the backup database.
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You must have exclusive access to a database in order to back it up
correctly. If you back up a database that is being modified by other users,
your backup copy of the database may be damaged or corrupted. When you open
such a backup database in Microsoft Access, you may receive the error
message "database is corrupted." If you repair and compact the database,
you may find that data in the database is truncated.
The only way to ensure the integrity of your backup database is to achieve
a static copy of the database. You must have exclusive access to all the
tables in the database at the same time in order to do so. Once you have
exclusive access to the database, you can copy or export the database, and
then archive the copy or export.
APPLIES TO| • | Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition | | • | Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition | | • | Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition | | • | Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition | | • | Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition |
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