On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:29:56 +0100 "David J. Ruck" <[email protected]> wrote:
> A company I worked for many years ago found out this out the hard way > when their Exchange server crashed, the backup tool had been silently > ignoring the Exchange database file always being open, and hadn't > actually backed it up in 3 years. But that's why we laugh at Windows. I can't think of any operating system that would allow the safe and meaningful backup of data in this situation. This is why backup tools that are worthwhile have modules for dealing with specific products like databases and exchange; they do logical backups of the data instead. There's no way of knowing of the data you've backed up is consistent of meaningful without the Exchange being involved, for example. Also, I forget: does RISC OS not allow files to be opened read-only multiple times? B.
