> So any security improvement you acquire by use of aliases, is lost if you
> are forced to publish to the users via backup file name and path,
> the backup
> file path. I can only see that backing up remotely must be
> removed from the
> remote users's options if you are to protect the database file. No?
> Alan
>

unless, of course, you are content to supply just a filename (no path) for
the backup file, in which case the backup is dumped into the system32
directory.
Alan