Hi Michael,

> I sounds all very well.
> It seems I have to rething our backup rutines.
> 97 % of our clients closes up the store at 19.00.
> The backup runs at 02.00 at night.
> Here there is no problem.
>
> The problem occurs at those sites, where they more or less never
> closes.
>
> So in short:
>
> 1.
> Schedule a GBak operation at let say 00.00 instead of the file
> system backup. This an be run while users are attached and working
> on the DB ?
> How does that ensure that the data is valid ?

Data entered/changed after the start of the backup will not be included.



Martijn Tonies
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