JohnnyD74
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Visual Foxpro Backup
Hello Experts,
I am setting up shadowprotect backup (vss snapshot based whole disk backup) for a client on their Foxpro server and I am unclear if we still need to follow our old backup procedure which was to manually do a "cold backup" from the medical database application (written in FoxPro). The application has a "backup" item under the "File" menu which requires that all users be out of the application first. Since the new backup software utilizes VSS, do we still need to follow the "cold" backup procedure?
Thanks very much!
I am setting up shadowprotect backup (vss snapshot based whole disk backup) for a client on their Foxpro server and I am unclear if we still need to follow our old backup procedure which was to manually do a "cold backup" from the medical database application (written in FoxPro). The application has a "backup" item under the "File" menu which requires that all users be out of the application first. Since the new backup software utilizes VSS, do we still need to follow the "cold" backup procedure?
Thanks very much!
Tomas Valenta
Always is better to have two backups of data on separated media (Tape + external HDD) and it could be also backups made by two applications. Database must have support for backing up by VSS snapshots - it is better to find it in documentation.
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Thank you so very much Olaf! We will continue the "cold" backup!