BMR restore with opened files

[manatee]

NBU 7.6.0.3

if i do a BMR backup of a server and it generated some opened files problem (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and the likes), should i throw away that backup or can that BMR backup be reliably restored? (from the point of view of restoring the server itself to a previous state)

[sdo · Accepted solution]

If only a few user files were missed, then the BMR server recovery should still work ok, but you may be missing the few locked files. If the locked files have a tilde ~ in the file name extension, then these are application flag/lock files which can probably be ignored anyway - assuming that the application wasn't performing a write/save at the exact moment that the backup passed over and through the actual application data files.

[manatee]

yeah they have tilde ~ but at the beginning of the filename, like "~apple.xls".

[sdo]

Those tilde files are flag files for MS applications like excel and word to indicate that a file is open for edit, you can ignore those locked files.