Hi Bob,
I am not sure whether this will fully satisfy your needs. I use Acronis TrueImage Home for my backups, and have been using it for many years. There is a feature called Non-Stop backup which might solve your problem. TrueImage handles open files quoting from their information "A special filter driver layers between file system drivers and volume drivers, allowing the software to create and backup consistent views of all files, including open files. The driver is installed above the volume drivers so it can see all the read and write requests passing to a volume - or partition." It is not a free product but it quite inexpensive. One of the best things about TrueImage is the bare metal restores, you can create a backup of your disks and then restore to a totally empty drive, and it doesn't have to be the same size. You can also create backups to restore to dissimilar hardware, although I have not done one of these. Good luck Brian From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob DeRosier Sent: Saturday, 11 May 2013 3:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dataperf] How to do multiple backups during work day ? Hi All; I have an application that the users would like to change their workflow. One of the ideas would require multiple backups during the day, just to avoid losing work. When I backup DP, I usually have everybody off the system, then copy the files to the backup location and work from there. Obviously, this would be a bit cumbersome with people working on it all day, especially if I want to do this multiple times a day. Any thoughts ? If this were running on a VM or storage area network or some such with a SQL server, I would just schedule a job to quiesce the database and take a snapshot of the files at that time and go from there. I don't know of a similar command for DP, that is if there are pending writes or the database is in an incoherent state where the records are out of synch, I don't know how to force them to be in synch without just throwing everybody out of the system. As it stands, it is running on XP in a low budget environment, no SAN, no NAS, no Windows server with VSS, no fancy backup appliance, just a non-profit with a small database and a need.. thanks for any advice. Bob
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