[Kosjer D]

I am wondering for quite a while now; is it necessary to quit all running programms in osx (like smartreport that might poll hds' smart status), pause timemachine (that it is not starting a backup while the other backup is running) and so on. I stopped all that each time i do a backup so far to take care. But would it be also possible to do backups with all those programms still running? Best regards k:d