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by bubloo

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dear all

i am having windows nt network with iis server. while taking backup it's skips some files those are all running background as a service. how to avoide this. what is the procedure to take system backup. should i stop all the service manually before going to take backup. or is there is any procedure way is available. but i am sure i am running any application while taking backup. i am using nt's default backup utility. pls. give solutioin.

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by jerone318

It really depends on your backup software, the backup software that came with NT will not shut down or close file so they can be backed up. Some third party solutions do offer add on to their products, that will stop a service or close a file. (ex: backup exec, arcserve..)

by ovidiu

You have two options:
1. Buy a backup software, which can deal with open files (that means an Open File Agent), or
2. Identify the name of the services that run, write a batch file that stops these services, and one that starts the services, and program them in the following order:
1). Stopserv.cmd
2). NTBackup
3). Startserv.cmd
Or, you could write a batch file containing all three events (this is recommended).

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