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Check out Shadow Volumes - part of windows XP and higher. They will create a snapshot where you can backup the files you need.

Jason L. Froebe

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Re^2: Archive::Zip[ing] a very active directory
by Marshall (Canon) on Oct 12, 2010 at 21:12 UTC
    The link above didn't work for me, but Wiki - Shadow Copy has a pretty good description to get started. Should work on Win 2003 server. These things can have some significant performance issues - so ymmy.