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? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
