VSS BackupHelper

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VSS BackupHelper

Util that exposes a volume shadow copy (VSS) snapshot as a drive in Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. Allows you to use rsync, robocopy etc on files normally locked by Windows.

Util that takes a vss snapshot and mounts it to a drive letter.

Launches a process and after it has executed dismounts the snapshot.

/s "?" volume to take a vss snapshot of, ex: /s "c:\"

/d "?" drive letter used to mount the snapshot, ex: /d "x:\"

/l "?" process to launche after mount, ex: /l "c:\test.exe"

Platform:

Depending on platform you need to copy and rename the appropriate interop dll from ./Interop to the same folder as BackupHelper.exe

I was looking for such tool and found this. I have tried to use it combined with ImageX, but there is still some problems taking a backup on the fly. I will have to make some more testing and if I can find a way to capture a drive on the fly I will give some more instructions here.

There is two differenet Interop.VSS.dll's in the zip file. One for Windows XP and second one for Windows 2003 Server. The application currently doesn't support Vista.

If you can find this tool usable please post some usage examples here.

Edited March 9, 2008 by geezery