That depends. If it's an access database then that shouldn't matter as
Access presents a Dynaset to the user. All transactions are immediately
committed to disk. However for any other app I believe Richard's comments
are on the mark.

Nathan

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Richard Sims [SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
        Sent:   Monday, March 29, 1999 1:38 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: NT client - application open files

        >i have a 3.1.0.6 NT client on adsm v3.1 (aix )server.
        >It has an application where the database is OPEN. In order for ADSM
to produce
        >a backup copy .
        >the application is on c:/app
        > I want to run a preschedulecmd as (is the command format
correct???)
        >preschedulecmd "copy c:/app/yyy.db c:/apptmp/yyy.db"

        I would STRONGLY advise against this kind of thing with any kind
        of database, in that the database would be in transition, with only
        part of it on disk (the rest being in memory buffers).  What you
would
        be backing up (and depending upon for restoral) would be dubious at
best.
        Either shut down the database system before backing it up, or back
it up
        with something designed to run within the database system.
           Richard Sims, BU