Hi Roger,

Speaking for Solaris/Unix: For regular backups no.  If you've specified
'mailasm' then yes - this will slow things way down if you've got tons of small
files since you incur additional file operations (ie. locking/unlocking) for
each file.

Regards,
        /\/elson


On Tue, 27 May 2003, roger midway wrote:

> Hi all - does NetWorker lock a file while it backs it
> up?  Is this in the manuals anywhere?
>
> RM
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