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only issue is that once the DB gets to a certain size it can be a pain to do a full backup/restore

Steve, thank you for your response. Please can you let me know a bit more about the backup problems you are having and any possible strategies you have to mitigate them.

For example I thought it was possible to shutdown the server and use operating system services (i.e. SCP?) to copy the file?

Many thanks...Mick