>> Heh. I too have written scripts to do backup. It seems like all you 
>> have to do is copy a bunch of files, but it's never quite that simple 
>> in reality. You have to deal with files that are locked, files getting 
>> moved around or deleted while you're trying to copy them, file 
>> security, alternate data streams, not upsetting programs working on 
>> those files just because you want to back them up, and so on.
> 
> Correct. And it's not that hard. Want my scripts to do it?

Right. Because there's a million and one gatchas to watch out for, and 
you've somehow covered them all with just a simple shell script.

>> If you want to be able to do stuff like back up or restore an 
>> individual Exchange mailbox, good luck doing that with scripting. 
> 
> Well, it would be file-level backups. I don't know how Exchange stores 
> its mailboxes.

In a giant database file. (It wouldn't surprise me if it's a JET 
database...)

> The tools are there to do this. They're not that hard to understand.

Sure. It's called professional backup software. And it costs lots of 
money. Because they can...

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