All:
>From W2K3 Server SP2, we script a nightly backup that reaches out and
touches a NetWare 3.12 server running btrieve.
The problem is we're not getting reliable backups using XCOPY and
bkutil .lock . We map a drive to the btrieve folder and before we run
xcopy we lock the db but oft times the BTR files are different sizes
on the Windows server and sometimes the fiel count is different, not
all the files are copied, altho' we're logging each and every copy.
I suspect the MS CSNW is the culprit and plan to move the backup
script to a Win9x box runing the Novell Client32, but before I do
that ... any suggestions? For tonights backup, I will run 3 bkutil
locks with a few seconds delay. As I said, sometimes we appear to get
all the BTR files, but not every night.
all the best.
|
