At 04:51 PM 11/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Version Dnews 5.5d1 on Windows 2000 Advanced server
>
>Is it possible to backup the Dnews data area while the Dnews NNTP service
>is started. I am receiving the following errors at backup time, which I
>assume is caused by our backup locking files that DNEWS is using
>
>
>37:55: error: file: Permission denied
>37:55: error: hist: open failed, check there is only one DNEWS running
>E:\dnews\hist/history.dat
>37:55: error: hist: Also check if a backup or other process has locked
>this file
>
>The Dnews service will eventually stop and then when bringing it up says
>that the database was not shut down properly and then checks all buckets etc..
>
>
>We don't really want to stop the Dnews service at night time for backups.
Yes you can backup while the server runs.
I recommend you exclude history.dat and probably dbi.idx too from the
backup, you can rebuild them from the other data so they are not critical.
ChrisP.
