From: liz@paradoxcommunity.com   
      
   Jeanette wrote:   
   >   
   > Another complaint I am getting from My Pdox Users is that their workstation   
   > sometimes freezes and throws them out of Paradox – no error message.  BUT   
   > this only happens after 5PM.   
      
   When the lock files are largest.  Start tracking the size of your lock   
   files.  How big are they at 5pm?  Do they get deleted every night?  (I   
   have a system which checks the lock file size at 9pm and if they're   
   larger than 100K, it emails me and I VPN in, close the app on PCs that   
   are running the app and that allows the lock files to automatically   
   delete).  It does the same check at 6am and emails me and others in IT   
   so the first one in can repeat the shut down process so the lock files   
   will delete.  If we didn't do this, our system would hang daily from the   
   size of the lock files.   
      
   > I checked with the Network Administrator (NA) and was told YES backups are   
   > done after 5PM BUT should not interfere with Users if they are online.   
      
   Bah!  Backup software needs to lock files to back them up (and won't   
   back them up if it can't get the right lock), backups take a lot of disk   
   and memory resource.  The notion that you can do backups at the same   
   time as users are using a system and have the two not interfere with   
   each other is nonsense.  Why aren't the backups automated and happening   
   around midnight?   
      
   Liz   
      
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