[dba-Tech] Curious question

Hi Arthur:

If you have "shadow copy" turned on for the specific drive then you can
backup all files regardless of how they are being used. 

Explorer > Drive > right-mouse-click > properties > shadow copies tab and it
will show you whether your drive's shadow copy is enabled or not. If it is
enabled then and backup system that used shadow copy technology can backup
the current drive regardless of the state of the files. The following is a
free program that uses this in its backup method.

http://www.runtime.org/shadow-copy.htm

HTH
Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 8:15 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Curious question

I'm just curious. How do backup programs get access to files that are in
use? You might have anything running, a database server, etc. So how do
they deal with that?

TIA,
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Arthur
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