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Hi all, how do you schedule your daily server backups? Last time I enquired from BB support they recommended shutting down the database and the application and doing a total cold backup. Because of the division in BB between the database and the O/S file structure, both servers must be shut down and backed up simultaneously. This is what we currently do for both the Solaris/Oracle database server and the Solaris application server. We do a cold copy of the files to disk then restart BB and write to tape later. This is fine except that it requires a couple of hours downtime overnight, which is becoming a problem for overseas students in other time zones. How do other people manage this? Is there a way to do server-level backups without shutting down BB? Do you use hot-backups, cold backups? Incrementals or full backups? We could do Oracle hot backups for the D/B server but the tortuous application file system is the biggest problem. We've a hierarchical directory structure of 40,000 course folders containing a million files! Any suggestions welcome. Thanks Anthony Kearney Learning and Information Services