Thanks for the suggestions everybody. "What have you learned, Ken?"
I probably should never have uttered the word "backup" because, although it was only one of the several processes I mentioned in my original message, most people got focused on that instead of the core of the problem, which is:
ANY process that accesses a table on a network share that runs within ON SHUTDOWN is vulnerable to that share being disconnected, even if the process takes a very brief period of time.
Essentially, I can test for the availability of resources before each such access, and/or "throw away" errors that occur during that period, so that the shutdown proceeds in an orderly fashion. But I cannot guarantee that everything will go the way I want.
I don't think anybody seriously intended to tell me that I can't or shouldn't try to save data or write to an audit table during ON SHUTDOWN. But if you did, how can I accomplish those necessary and brief tasks when the user shuts down the system?
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