SS>> Really!? Guess I've been looking in the wrong place then . Then
SS>> they must also be able to deal with open files too?
SS>> Thanks for the response, Frank!
FR> Sure they deal with open files; they move on.  Except for the bindery of 
FR> course.
Matter of fact, I've got down to a ho-hum routine of hot server cloning using 
a derivation of that fact.  Steps:
Put both servers online, both visible to one hot workstation.  Use 
patriquin's PCOPY in update & subdirectory mode - skip any busy files.  On 
our average production machines, this will chug away for half to threefourths 
of an hour.
Working file area amounts to about 1 gig total.
Once this bulk work is done, shoo everyone off, then disconnect the cables 
they were using so's they don't sneak back in during vital copy - and rerun 
PCOPY in update.  This will complete in 3 to 5 minutes, as it's only copying 
the files that were locked, or changed since the last pass.
Working set at any particular instant (especially over lunch break..:-) is 
rather small.  (Love those lunch hours...:-)
Since you also blueprinted SYS while nobody was watching, now you cut in the 
new server, and let the eager lads back on.   THEY think it took 5 minutes. 
:-)
I'm well aware that the same effects can be done using other software - but 
this particular aged-in-the-wood utility doesn't drop files - ever, and has 
yet to be caught out in a single error.  XCOPY, COPY, and NCOPY all have egg 
on the face when faced with that record.
Regards,
Dave Hatch.
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