On or near 7/10/02 12:23 PM, Julian Vrieslander at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:

> Does anyone know if the same issue can occur with Retrospect backups?  In
> particular, is it necessary to turn off Office Notifications before running
> a Retrospect backup?  If so, this is going to be a PITA for people who rely
> on Retrospect to do (client) backups of workgroup Macs.

As a general rule you should shut down <all> programs (including Office
Notifications) before any backups. Copying an open file is an invitation to
disaster. FileMaker Pro databases, if copied while open, will, when the copy
is opened, tell you that the file was not closed properly and go into a file
checking routine, thus circumventing possible problems, but most
applications are not that careful and will just barf on the corrupted file.

Thus, to be safe, the user should log out, log in without running any login
items (hold down shift while the blue/white progress bar runs until the
Finder is fully displayed), and then initiate the backup.
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