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Tivoli Storage Manager for NetWare Backup-Archive Client Installation and User's Guide

Backing Up Open Files

Some files on your system may be in use when you try backing them up (these are called open files, because they are opened by an application for its use). Because an open file may change, it is likely that any backup of an open file will not correctly reflect the contents of the file at a given time.

There are some files that are open exclusively to an application, that applications such as Tivoli Storage Manager cannot read for back up, regardless of the policy settings on the server which dictate taking fuzzy copies of open files. Files that are opened exclusively by other applications should be considered for exclusion from backup.

If certain files are not backed up because they are open or they get changed when Tivoli Storage Manager backs them up, consider the following:


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