System level scripts can be very helpful to use with FileMaker Server. There are two problems I was able to solve by using system level scripts, and now I use these two processes on a daily basis. The first problem I came across was that the server machine was always running out of memory. To solve this, I created a process that creates a zip file of my backup, and then move the backup to another machine. The second issue I came across was a client needed to refresh FileMaker data from another data source on a nightly basis. Using ftp to access a machine and then grabbing a file to import it into FileMaker solved this request. I will go into how to do each of these in detail.

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