Front End Back End Backup

[RangerTen]

I am creating a split database for various reasons. Is there an easy direct way to create a cmd button (in the front end) that would copy the backend .mdb to a location of the users choice as a security measure (backup)? Would that have to be coding through the windows API or does access/VBA have the capabilities to do it?

Thanks for the help.

 

[DataMiner]

Use the filecopy statement. Syntax is just

Filecopy source,destination

However, you can't use it on a "currently open" file, so I'm not sure whether Access would consider you linked backend as "open".