[dba-Tech] Curious question

I can't find a shadow copy tab in the properties dialog. Windows 7 sp1.

I'll do some googling.

A.


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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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