On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis <an-cyg...@spiro.trikaliotis.net> wrote: > Hello Greg, > > * On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:26:17PM -0500 Greg Freemyer wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis > [shadow copies on Windows] >> I don't use Access, but in general good applications should support >> being quiesced. They do that by registering with the VSS service. >> Then when a shadow copy is requested, vss first notifies all >> registered apps to quiesce themselves. > > Yes, I forgot about that. This might work, at least with newer versions > of Access. > > There might be a caveat, though: You can remotely use MS Access to > access an MDB file on a file server. You can even do it multiple times, > having x instances of MS Access access just one file on a remote server. > Can a remote application register with the VSS service on a completely > different machine?
No idea, but given vss is standard microsoft stuff, it is very feasible it can. FYI: registering like this is one place I think Windows is ahead of Linux. And Microsoft has been supporting the whole process since they brought out vss way back with Win2003. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
