Backup and Volume Shadow Copy

I just finished reading an article on the Microsoft web site, "Windows XP
Backup Made Easy" by Ed Bott. It's dated July of 2003 and I'm wondering if
what is stated is still the same or if changes have been made since then.

The article states "All in all, you can count on backing up 5 GB of data in
as little as 10 minutes. And you don't need to worry about shutting down
running programs, either—thanks to a feature called volume shadow copy, the
Backup utility can safely create a copy of any file, even if it's currently
in use."

Is this statement still true? I'm not concerned with the amount of data or
the speed. I need to backup files that have an application that runs 24/7
accessing them and the technology "Volume Shadow Copy" used within the backup
utility of Windows XP says it will do this.

If not, can you point me to something that will?

Thanks for your help, Tom

Replied to [TomB]s message :
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> "All in all, you can count on backing up 5 GB of data in
> as little as 10 minutes. And you don't need to worry about shutting down
> running programs, either-thanks to a feature called volume shadow copy, the
> Backup utility can safely create a copy of any file, even if it's currently
> in use."
>
> Is this statement still true?



Yes, it is true but in some conditions it can fail. So the best method will be
try this.



> If not, can you point me to something that will?
Backup4All is a good program :
http://www.backup4all.com/

OR
http://www.handybackup.net/

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