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candera / hobocopy

An open source backup tool for Windows
http://candera.github.com/hobocopy/
MIT License
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hobocopy file #55

Open anthonyr83 opened 2 years ago

anthonyr83 commented 2 years ago

Hi there,

I know you no longer support hobocopy but after downloading the code I see we need to go to the downloads page to run the hobocopy.exe file. Are you able to point me in the direction of where to downloadthis from as I noted your download page no longer works.

Many Thanks Anthony

burtonsys commented 2 months ago

I went hunting for it, and found it.

The first copy I found was on Softpedia here (it didn't work): https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/HoboCopy.shtml

The download file there is named: HoboCopy-1.0.0.0-W2K3-Vista-32bit-Release.zip

VirusTotal says it's clean, but it was clearly back-level, because the file dates are 2007 instead of 2011.

I tried to run it anyhow, on Windows 11 (64-bit). I found that it has to be run from an "as administrator" (elevated) cmd prompt. When I did that, it correctly displayed the help message. But that's all it would do. When I tried to copy files with it I always got an error:

There was a COM failure 0x80042302 - .\HoboCopy.cpp (172)

I searched for discussions of that error message, and found someone calling himself garlin talking about it on tenforums. He directed me to a Wayback Machine archive of a download folder, here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200115012237/https://github.com/candera/hobocopy/downloads

The copy of "HoboCopy-1.0.0.0-W2K3-Vista-32bit-Release.zip" there is identical to the file of the same name on Softpedia, but there are also newer versions. The best version seems to be this one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200115012237/https://github.com/downloads/candera/hobocopy/hobocopy-unstable-64bit-20110505-01.zip

I tested it by copying the hobocopy folder contents (including the program, itself) into a temporary folder, like this:

hobocopy .\ temp\

It was very slow, but it worked. (It took about 15 seconds to copy just 2 files totaling only 2 MB.)

I then locked a file using my old holdopen program, and tested again. It worked! Hobocopy successfully copied the locked file!

Oddly, the readme.txt file is missing from all the hobocopy .zip files except HoboCopy-1.0.0.0-W2K3-Vista-32bit-Release.zip, so you might want to download that one just to get the readme file.