Need help with Backup in Windows 2000

Chadder007

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We have two windows 2000 machines that use a DOS based program that stays open almost all the time. I have a backup script, using Backup that came with Windows 2k set to run using Task Schedular. The problem is, some of the files aren't being backed up and tagged with the attribute of being backed up. I figure that it because these are files that are staying open at night since the users never shut down the program. Is there anything I can do to get it to tag these files that are open as being backed up, or is there a script to shut down/close a dos program that uses (ALT + X) to close it usually?
Maybe even a task schedule script that I could run to shut down the program and stop any file sharing between the computers so the files aren't open/locked.
 

nweaver

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look at PSTools, I believe a pskill \\computername taskname would do the trick...PS Tools is a fantastic set of adminstrative tools for windows.

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