What you describe is not possible (to my knowledge). An Access MDB must be
closed before a copy/backup operation. DBMaint is a good third-party tool
for MDB compact and backup.
-Ed

"Clockwork" wrote in message
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I'm trying to make a backup database button on my switchboard. Is this
possible? If so, then what's the Back up Database run code command? Any help
will be appreciated.