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Re: Remote database transfer to HQ

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Helpful Harry wrote:

> If the data transfer is only one-way (back to HQ), then one option would
> be to use a Script to export the data and then attach that exported file
> to an email to send back to HQ where it is imported back into the Server
> database.
>
<snip>
> Another, probably better, option would be to have a standalone /
> non-connected databases for normal use on the laptops, and a second "stub"
> version of the database which is connected to the FileMaker server
> database.
<and snip>
> Helpful Harry  :o)

Thanks, Harry. I am at the point of using the email option, but that 
felt fairly ugly as a solution. So I figured I better speak up and make 
sure I'm not missing some better options. I'll have to poke at using a 
stub database and see how bulletproof that feels.

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