On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:25, Bryan Garmon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Long story very short - The Aloha Point of Sale application runs on
> Windows XP Sp3 machines. The app creates hundreds of 2K - 4K files
> each day, dumping them into a single subdirectory named by datestamp.
> Typically there are several thousand of these files off the parent
> directory, since each day a new subdirectory is created with several
> hundred more of the 2K-4K files. We're having problems with our backup
> software not being able to complete nightly backups getting stuck on
> these directories. I'm wondering if anyone else is running this
> application and if so, did you have to change anything in Aloha to
> make it work? What backup application are you running?

Disable 8.3 filename creation and disable last access timestamps:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938627.aspx

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