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In article <euW%d.43309$dY5.3769409@phobos.telenet-ops.be>,
CWatters <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote:
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>"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote in message
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>> Just use Windows backup. One of the advantages of a multitasking
>operating
>> system is that _anything_ can work in background.
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>Can it copy open files?
Assuming we are talking about ntbackup.exe, yes, for the operating
system. I used ot for years n a prodcution environemnt and have
restored C drives several times. The major downside, IMO, is that the
restoration proceedure is a PITA.
Applications are on a case by case basis. I'l told tha Outlook needs
to be closed to get a valid backup and I wouldn;t backup an Oracle
data base while it was running.
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>I think the OP probably should go back to the client for clarification. Does
>he expect D: to be a clone of C:? eg Does he expect to be able to swap the
>drives over if C:: fails? If he does then I don't think Windows Backup will
>do the job. It's ok for backing up data but I don't think it can backup open
>system or data files. I might be wrong but I recall that when I last used it
>to backup C: there were a lot of exceptions in the log.
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