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candera / hobocopy

An open source backup tool for Windows
http://candera.github.com/hobocopy/
MIT License
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Hang and error 32 (file is in use) during copy #29

Open candera opened 13 years ago

candera commented 13 years ago

Background

A user reported that hobocopy is never completing a copy. During the copy, it reports error 32, which is "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." This really shouldn't happen.

The email thread is available at http://groups.google.com/group/hobocopy/browse_thread/thread/c94a81f117378175?hl=en_US#

Expected behavior

The copy should complete, and all files should be copied.

candera commented 13 years ago

This appears to only happen during incremental copies. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong there? More information is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384599(v=vs.85).aspx. I'm going to create a branch that always specifies full backup and see if that fixes this user's problem.

candera commented 13 years ago

See also #35 - copy files because another process has locked part of the file.

candera commented 13 years ago

Branch build made available. Instructions for how to use it here: http://groups.google.com/group/hobocopy/browse_thread/thread/bcf92b74dc30dbb4#msg_2466ed5fb7af57be