Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Feb 2 14:46:10 CST 2013
Big businesses have all sorts of solid backup policies/regimes. Individuals like ourselves can use your solution with no problems. We can make sure that nothing is open when we make our backups. But it's no good for Susie User in a small business who comes in in the morning, switches her computer on and starts Outlook, then opens and closes various documents and databases all day. At the end of the day, she shuts down her computer (hopefully closing Outlook and any open databases first). As with Rocky's client who started this thread, they need something which can copy open files including their Outlook .pst or whatever and their Access/Excel/Word open databases/documents. IOW, something which uses the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) rather than a simple Copy or XCopy type process It doesn't need to be a full backup, generally just their My Documents, AppData folders etc They also won't remember to do it regularly, so it needs to run automatically in the background preferably scheduled for when they are on their lunch break. Application such as the freeware Shadowcopy run from a scheduled script (as batch file are now supposed to be called <g>) are very useful for this.. -- Stuart On 2 Feb 2013 at 11:12, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Wow. Reading this thread makes me feel like such a dinosaur. I haven't even > heard of most products mentioned, let alone used them. All I have is a 1TB > USB external drive, and a scheduled procedure that works nightly and copies > everything of interest to said external drive, and that's all that I have. -