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How to make a hot backup of plain files?

Hi, we are running Windows 2000 Server, we have some big plain files ~4 GB (not a DB) that users access from their workstations.

We need to make hot backups daily (in another machine?) of these files since users access them almost all time, how can we do this ?
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are they used 24hrs a day? if not, schedule a copy after hours to another computer.

You could also use DFS, distributed file system to keep them synced all the time.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/dfsguide.mspx

Good Luck,

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They are in use 24 hrs/day almost every day.

But those days when they aren't in use is not always at the same time (3.00 am, 2.00 am, 3.30 am .... )
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The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

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