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From: Ian Singer <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish List - Auto-backup
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:47:21 -0400
References: <SNT128-W46B1A7FB851F7C178331EBDFB90@phx.gbl><4D8CA748.8070506@Damon-Family.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D8CA748.8070506@Damon-Family.org>


On 3/25/2011 10:31 AM, Richard Damon wrote:

> One issue with an auto backup in TMG, is that due to the nature of it
> being a database, a "Background" backup would still need to lock the
> whole database, and thus you would not be able to access it while it was
> backing up.

I use Ooops and it uses Windows shadow copy to lock files. They say it
takes 10 seconds to lock and copy the who drive but that is far from
true and sometimes shadow copy fails.

Ian Singer

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