Has anyone used a utility from M$ called "vshadow"?

It is a ".exe" that comes in a free SDK called VSS.

As far as I can tell it seems to be an attempt to
do the equivalent of snapshots so that backups
can be done to otherwise uncopyable files.

Sound like a familiar problem?

If I understand it correctly, it is a bit wierd in
that the snapshot only exists while vshadow program
is running.  So you have to provide it with a script
to execute on the snapshot, when that ends, so does
the snapshot.

I stumbled across a blog entry that provided a script
using vshadow to enable the copying of a single file.
Thus far it has not worked for me.

Hopefully I type the URL correctly.

  http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2005/01/05/346793.aspx

The vshadow.exe is only available for WinXP and 2003 server.
So it is not a general solution, but maybe a start?


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