Guest Will Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 We want to use the robocopy utility to copy large multi-gigabyte backup files from a local hard drive to a central file server. My question is what would happen if robocopy started to copy over a large file that was being actively written to by the native Windows backup application? Will robocopy simply refuse to copy any of the file at all? Will it copy up to the last byte being written and then hang? In general would it be a safe practice to use robocopy on a backup file that is being actively created? -- Will
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Re: Question on Robocopy "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message news:v9GdnaLPVsWdljbVnZ2dnUVZ_rPinZ2d@giganews.com... > We want to use the robocopy utility to copy large multi-gigabyte backup > files from a local hard drive to a central file server. My question is > what would happen if robocopy started to copy over a large file that was > being actively written to by the native Windows backup application? Will > robocopy simply refuse to copy any of the file at all? Will it copy up > to > the last byte being written and then hang? In general would it be a > safe > practice to use robocopy on a backup file that is being actively created? > > -- > Will > Either robocopy will lock the file or your application will, depending who gets it first. The other application won't be able to open the file.
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