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That's good news if true. Do you know if that works for Win98SE? Frankly, the DOS based Image backup I use has worked extremely well. I have used it to recover some botched installs and once when my system was literally overrun with a virus. db > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Walden H. Leverich > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:06 PM > > >If that is the case, you should not be backing up within the Windows > environment. > >Windows locks many objects that (normally) cannot be saved while > Windows is > >active. > > A System Backup will get the stuff that Windows locks. > > Now, as for the stuff that other running application lock... that's > another story. XP provides a "volume shadow copy" option which will > allow those locked files to be backed up, but there's no guarantee that > they'll be in a valid application state on restore. If you end all the > applications you should be ok. > > -Walden
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