Hi, Jeff
Some thoughts on your situation:
1. Does client have any other backup of the data? How often/how old?
2. Is the system accessing the data in VFP? If not, what?
3. If you have a VFP program that can access the SQL, you can write a data dump
program for a hell of a lot less than $15k!
4. If you don't already have a VFP program that can access the SQL, you can
still write one for less than $15k.
5. Seems to me it's your customer that should contact the attorney to see what
his legal rights are. Not you.
6. Legal action always favors the party with the most money.
7. No matter what you do, you need to find another hosting company. There are
lots and lots of them.
You need to know exactly what the agreement between your customer and the
hosting company is. How much, how often, and for exactly what services. And
who negotiated it? Do you really have a dog in this fight or are you just
trying to help?
I think the hosting company is trying to screw your client, but there may not
be a whole log of benefit for you in preventing that
(e.g., if the hosting company is run by your client's son-in-law!). I pretty
much favor writing a data dump that runs on the client's system, because then
it doesn't matter who the hosting company is; you have control.
Dan
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> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:48:55 -0700
> From: j...@san-dc.com
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: [NF] Retrieving Data from a Web Site
>
> I mentioned before that a customer of mine has critical data stored on a
> web site and currently subscribes to that web site. It is case
> information and documents for a funeral home. The company said they
> would provide an export of the SQL Server tables for $15,000! This is
> the funeral home's data and they have to pay $15,000 to get a copy of
> it. They will not just give us a backup of the tables.
>
> Does anyone know what options we have?
>
> Should we contact an attorney?
>
> --
> Jeff
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