I see...you are attempting a compensation for the snapshot requirements issue.
I would recommend stepping back and looking at the big picture, afresh: avoid "digging a deeper hole" in this scenario. In particular, a modern computer which has less than 5 GB of available disk space is ridiculously in need of either housekeeping or disk upgrade, where the latter can be internal, external peripheral, or networked disk space - which is to say that there are many opportunities. The client owner should consider that the running disk may be of considerable age now, and may be worth replacing with a much more capacious disk, which will avoid all the problems involved should the old disk suddenly die - particularly as it sounds like there is not a complete backup now for that disk. Or, the Windows computer may be so old that it is worth wholly replacing. You are, in effect, being mired in a problem which really belongs to the client owner. If you find no cooperation there, consider pursuing conventional Incremental backup, dealing with open files via retries or software subsystem shutdown during the backup, depending upon what's keeping them open. Richard Sims On Nov 25, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Sandra wrote:
Dear richard, I m alittle confused. I will create a .bat file which will take incremental backup of 1 drive: dsmc -optfile=dsm.opt incremental -filesonly and the other .bat file would backup D drive: dsmc -optfile=dsm-d.opt incremental -filesonly I m doing this because i have less amount of HDD space 5GB on C and open files snapshot is taking tooo much space and then the system hangs.
