Hmmm. I have several users, who usually leave their programs up and running overnight. I don't see why there should be an issue just copying the locked files. If I were changing them, I see what you mean. Is there a way to disable the checksumming? That would possibly fix the QB errors.
Thanks for the help! -----Original Message----- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:24 AM To: Sully W. Beardmore Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with seemingly random Xfer Errors On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:22, Sully W. Beardmore wrote: > Hello, I back up a Windows NT 4.0 server by running BackupPC 2.1.1 on an > Ubuntu Linux box, and then backing up a directory on localhost to which the > NT server is mounted. > > I am getting strange errors in the Xfer logs. The majority of the 15+GB of > data that I backup is fine. But it seems to have trouble with Quickbooks > files and a few totally random files. I am having trouble putting > confidence in this system, since the errors seem to be very random. Windows defaults to locking files that are open. Can you make sure that all applications are closed on all machines that use this server? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
