>>When an ASP page is accessed from the IIS server, the page remains locked for a while. When doing a backup, it creates problem as we have to wait for the release of the file and sometimes on big Web site, it never gets released. Is there a setting in IIS for that? Or, what would be the best setting?
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>How about turning web publishing off while doing the backup?

That would mean that during a backup, the Web server would not respond. We were trying to avoid that.