Re: Quiessing the system for backup

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

We do what Bryan suggests and in a year + of nightly backups have never had
an issue.

On 9/20/07, Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But if you only take down qinter you only prevent access via green
> screen.  I have had, more times than I care to mention, a client access
> query or ODBC transfer mess up a perfectly good backup.
>
> I would suggest ending QINTER and end host servers(ENDHOSTSVR),
> that should catch most all ways access to the data.
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
> Kern, Mary T said the following on 9/20/2007 4:06 PM:
> > I think that was to ensure that no one could log in ... However taking
> QINTER down should take care of that ... (It was in the program from our
> software vendor .. I just never questioned why until now)
> > Thanks!
> > Mary
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