I see...you are attempting a compensation for the snapshot
requirements issue.

I would recommend stepping back and looking at the big picture,
afresh: avoid "digging a deeper hole" in this scenario. In
particular, a modern computer which has less than 5 GB of available
disk space is ridiculously in need of either housekeeping or disk
upgrade, where the latter can be internal, external peripheral, or
networked disk space - which is to say that there are many
opportunities. The client owner should consider that the running disk
may be of considerable age now, and may be worth replacing with a
much more capacious disk, which will avoid all the problems involved
should the old disk suddenly die - particularly as it sounds like
there is not a complete backup now for that disk. Or, the Windows
computer may be so old that it is worth wholly replacing. You are, in
effect, being mired in a problem which really belongs to the client
owner. If you find no cooperation there, consider pursuing
conventional Incremental backup, dealing with open files via retries
or software subsystem shutdown during the backup, depending upon
what's keeping them open.

   Richard Sims

On Nov 25, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Sandra wrote:

Dear richard,
I m alittle confused.

I will create a .bat file which will take incremental backup of 1
drive:
dsmc -optfile=dsm.opt incremental -filesonly

and the other .bat file would backup D drive:
dsmc -optfile=dsm-d.opt incremental -filesonly

I m doing this because i have less amount of HDD space 5GB on C and
open files snapshot is taking tooo much space and then the system
hangs.