Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:34:48 -0400
From: HECTOR SANTOS
To: DAVID DEMBSKI
Subject: RE: WINS - Data Backup Tool
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In the last release, we cleaned up the section Backup Operations. See that section. There is a new option that allows you to open files in read mode.
However, if you are using XP/2003/2008/VISTA, you can use VSS or Volume
Shadow copy Service or some called it Volume Snapshot Service which
Microsoft uses to BREAK your protection of locked files in order to take a "SnapShot" of the files. Only VSS can do this and other vendors that offer Open File Agents. VSS is a competitor to OFA - basically put OFA people
out of business but OFA is still good for pre XP systems like 2000 and NT.
VSS is nice in that it NTBACKUP supports it. So you can use your normal NTBACKUP to backup Wildcat! now - COMPLETELY.
If you want to use the new special Registry Flag that WCSERVER will use to
open the files in read mode, with this you can use any command line tool to copy files, like ROBOCOPY.EXE. I can't be sure if ROBOCOPY supports VSS in maybe 2008 and Vista, but I don't think in XP/2003 - if I remember.
For that, I have a Wildcat! VSS command line tool that will work for
XP/2003 that I will be coming out for testing once I add a few more things
to it.
But if you have XP/2003+, NTBACKUP will work to backup Wildcat! using VSS
and no special flag is needed, keeping the integrity of the system intact.
Let us know what you find in your exploration of this.
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On 2008-08-14 5:46 PM, DAVID DEMBSKI wrote to HECTOR SANTOS:
Dear Hector,
Something it would be nice is a WINS data backup tool, which will backup all settings, databases and extra files, which are within the WINS core.
Export settings, databases and extra files
Import settings, databases and extra files
Cheers,
David
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