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?
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