Is I/O to backup device "guaranteed" to be done before post-backup command is called?
Windows 7 Pro SP1 64 bit, TI 2017 Build 8053
My post-backup commands flush the backup drive, unmount it, power it down and shut down the system.
Is all I/O to the backup device guaranteed to be done before the post-backup commands are executed?
Validation of the backups is always good, but I thought I'd ask anyway.


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In reply to Bert, I cannot give you a… by truwrikodrorow…
So long as the backup program itself is really not going to be doing any more I/O once the post-backup commands are called, any problems I encounter will be my own fault.
The drive is configured for "safe removal", I use the Sysinternals "sync" command to flush the system cache to the drive (although "safe removal" should have stopped OS caching anyway), and use the "mountvol" command to unmount it prior to powering it down.
Presumably (there's a lot of presuming and finger-crossing going on here) these should make sure that there's no data left hanging around in the system cache or in the disk's own hardware cache.
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