Anyway, I took another 15 minutes on creating a Symbolic Link.įinally I came up with this: ln -s /Users/USERNAMEGOESHERE/Dropbox/ Dropbox It took me twenty minutes to figure out how the ‘cd’ (change directory) command worked in Terminal again - it has been a long time since I used it. Unfortunately Terminal is required to create these links and my Terminal skills are somewhere between rusty and nonexistent. Symbol Links are a kind of alias or shortcut with super Unix powers. I attempted to get Symbolic Links working. Apparently, I could add a Symbolic Link referencing the Dropbox folder to the Backups folder and then add it to the Path and Validate. I asked another developer if he had encountered this and he suggested that Symbolic Links were the solution. I tried entering the path to Dropbox, but each time I clicked ‘ Validate’, I received the message ‘Not a Valid Path’. If you want to change the location of where backups are saved, type a valid path into the “Path:” field, in accordance with the syntax example shown just below that field. By default, backups will be saved to the “Backups” folder in the FileMaker Server installation path.
Click the “Default Folders” tab and you will see a “Backup Folder” section below the “Database Folders” section. Select this and in the right pane should display the Database Server configuration panel. In the left pane of the Admin Console, under the ‘Configuration’ section, you see a ‘Database Server’ option. Instead, my Status read “Not a Valid Path”.Īccording to FileMaker’s Help, setting up an alternate path should be easy. In this case, I am aiming for a folder called ‘FileMaker-Database-Backup’ inside of Dropbox.ħ) Check Status - It should read ‘Valid Path’ 2) Add a new schedule by clicking the small calendar iconģ) Select your databases to back up, then click ‘Next’.Ĥ) The second screen you will see is where you set the path to where you want the databases saved.
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