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  3. October 2004

RE: PC Backup to IFS

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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