On 10/15/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These backups are taking place on a Windows 2003 Server running > under VMWare.
Ah. Then the OFA will likely be useful for the scenario I described. > I was more curiouse as to if binary backup of the file done while it was > locked would be bad, which I believed it was, do to past experience. The fact the something is locked does not inherently mean a backup of it at that time will be invalid. If all files are consistent on disk, then the backup is okay. Like my Excel example. The thing is, a "hot" database is not likely to be consistent on disk. There's another, similar problem in that if the backup software locks the file during backup (and file locks are the rule, rather than the exception, on Windows), and then the application needs the file during the backup, you have an upset application. The OFA should handle that, too. > Yes, but if they hose my server while doing their backups I'm going > to be pissed. > ... my concern is them affecting the operation of my machine. Well, I don't have any recent experience with ARCServe (my past experience was enough for several lifetimes), but assuming their OFA works properly (this is a big assumption), it should not cause your system to fail during the backup. The backup it creates might not be useful, but it shouldn't hurt the running system. On 10/15/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes, I hate IT geeks.. :-D Incompetent ones do suck a lot. And, unfortunately, Sturgeon's Law applies. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
