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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Backing Up Open Files

Some files on your system might be in use when you try to back 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.

If certain files are not backed up because they are open and they change when you try to back them up or when the backup schedule starts, consider the following points:

Note:
While Tivoli Storage Manager attempts to back up open files, this is not always possible. Some files are open exclusively for the application that opened them. If Tivoli Storage Manager encounters such a file, it cannot read it for backup purposes. If you are aware of such file types in your environment, you should exclude them from backup to avoid seeing error messages in the log file.


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