How in the world does Veritas do this?  And if they can back the darn things
up can they actually restore them?

I believe this occurs because the application takes an exclusive lock on the
file.  This must mean that Veritas does not check the lock before opening
the file.

Perhaps the client coders can tell us how this works and speculate on what
Veritas is doing.

Kelly J. Lipp
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