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[James McDonald]

Vu Pham wrote:
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> IIRC, the backup script does stop the db engine before backing the files
> up. I will check it again , just in case.
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I'm having trouble with backups at the moment because my users are 
leaving themselves logged on with files locked but this is in a windoze 
env...

Linux doesn't seem to be so much into exclusive locking... I'm open to 
being enlightened about that though.