We're a small school district. We've got eight different schools, each with a database stored on an AppleShare server that runs OS 9. We want a script to mount each server at a pre-set time, copy the database from that school into a folder on one of our workstations, so we can burn a CD the next morning (we can do that part manually). It would be nice if the process included a separate folder for each day of the week. Each week thereafter, the old data could be dumped and the new data added to the appropriate day's folder.
Complicating factors include the fact that this automated process needs to be triggered after working hours. The databases replicate all day to a SQL Server thereby locking records and preventing us from copying the file except during a specified "Maintenance" window. Also, the servers occasionally lock-up. If that were to happen, we'd want the script to simply skip over the locked-up server and proceed to the next one.
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## Platform
Mac OS 9