Windows Open File Manager software

dch · 7th September 2005

Has anybody any experience in Open File Manager software for use on w2k and w2k3, StBernard is one of the few most known apps like this I think - do you have any others that you have used or can recommend ?

Cheers,
Sean

markcastle · 7th September 2005

We used it years ago, IIRC, but i gotta be honest, i can't remember what for or whether it was any good or not. I've got a lovely St Bernards T-Shirt you can have if you want though :P

dch · 7th September 2005

LOL - I'll let you keep the T-Shirt

(may be a bit small for me

) They may give me my own if we go ahead and get the software

- Do you use anything similar to StBernard now ?

Flashster · 25th May 2006

I wouldn't use it again myself. I installed it on some file servers a couple of years back in order to backup any open files. I seem to remember that some strange faults occurred and removing it was a complete nightmare with many blue screens and angry clients.

I didn't touch it again. That was on Windows 2000 advanced server. Ofcourse new versions of St Bernards may be different, but I'm afraid I wouldn't touch it.

I may well be wrong but I thought that the new OS's (XP but I would have thought server OS's too) are now able to backup open files - the desktop backup systems I use certainly seem to. They use the Volume Shadow Copy Service.

Here you go - some info I just found:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true

hope that helps,

Flash

TDMWeb · 25th May 2006

Windows backup copes with open files fine, using volume shadow copy. You can program to the volume shadow service yourself if you want, but it gets a bit complicated...

dch · 25th May 2006

Thanks guys, I do know about volume shadow copy, but this was for W2kAS which obviously doesn't have VSC

We did try a number of different app, and none were really any good - but I can say that DriveSnapShot (recommended in another thread) is excellent and works with open files on W2k.

Cheers,
Sean