In all cases they should be able to set backup to exclude particular files and or directories. Both backups could be causing problems especially with the 2004 dB
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 4, 2019, at 10:00 AM, Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a legacy 4D server which appears to be getting trashed by the backup > services in Windows 10 server. > > The platform contractor cannot turn off any of the backup stuff and I can’t > upgrade to v17 for several weeks due to…..reasons, so need to find a way > round this. (There are 2 virtual machines running inside the host. One of > these runs a 4D 2004 server, the other runs a 4D v15 server). > > One thing the contractor said is that there are 2 levels of backup - the > “Host replication” which runs every 15 minutes - and the guest backup (which > I presume is Windows Shadow Copy Service) which runs once per evening. > > Am I right in thinking that legacy 4D servers should be ok with the host > replication but not with the guest backup (which causes file locking > conflicts with 4D I imagine) ? > > If that’s the case I’m thinking of finding a shell script to take the 4D > server down in the evenings and put it back up early morning. > > Regards > > Peter > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
