How to copy locked files with Volume Shadow Copy
With the Gold version of Uranium Backup you can copy also locked files.
With "locked files" we mean that files opened in exclusive mode by other programs,
like Virtual Machine files (Hyper-V, VMWare, Virtual PC, ecc...), database files, systems files, Outlook .pst files, Exchange Server files, etc...
In order to copy these files Uranium uses a particular Windows service named
"Volume Shadow Copy".
Uranium is able to manage automatically
shadow copy services, and so you simply need to set the option shown in the image below:
Let's go in the backup set options panel, in the first panel "General", and let's
select the option "Use Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to copy locked files...". Let's
apply this setting with the relative button and the program will be able to copy
any locked or system files.
Requirement: on Windows Vista, Windows 2008
Server and Windows 7, in order to use Volume Shadow Copy it is necessary to run
Uranium as Administrator.
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