Need help re: VB app copying redo log archives

I've been asked to write a VB6 app to have any redo archive files copied to an alternative location where they'll be saved to tape. I was told this app should be smart enough to leave any open archive file that is being appended to by the database alone until the next time the app is run.

Is there any programmatic way to determine if a file is open by another process? I didn't see any method or property in FSO that did this. I thought I could perhaps suck in the results of "net file", but I'm not entirely sure that would work as I do not know how Oracle copies its redo logs to the .ARC files.

Any useful suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Joe Received on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 09:09:07 CST