Alan McDonald wrote:

>>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
>

Backup should be operation performed locally on server.If You need it
available remotely (we could discuss why) - write program for this to
hide backup operation inside.

Boguslaw