Create Backups

[Brewhaus]

We are trying to create backups via a briefcase on a separate drive, in case the hard drive used for our site files happens to die. When we are copying the files across, however, we get an error when we hit the log files ('cannot open'). Is there a way to get around this? We just want to have a set of backup files that will update easily instead of having to copy the entire folder when changes are made (or remember to copy individual files every time we work with them).

[mazhar]

That might be dew to the application accessing the log file. When your application is running log file might be used by asp.net process and might be locked for write operations. It should allow simple copy operation make sure you are not modifying any thing. Also you may exclude log file from backup briefcase and once you are finished with briefcase update you can manually export log file and place it with backup data.