Error calling GetFullPathName: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (Error number 123)

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Hi Craig,
            i have been messing with HoboCopy for about a week and i almost got it to work but among all the messages a received this is the closes one to make it work and still can figure out what am i doing wrong.
this is the message a received when i check back the FileLog.txt where I send the output
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Starting PSTCopy on Wed 10/14/2015 at 15:38:08.55
 
The Volume Shadow Copy service is starting.
The Volume Shadow Copy service was started successfully.

HoboCopy (c) 2006 Wangdera Corporation.

Error calling GetFullPathName: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
 (Error number 123)
B: was deleted successfully.

The Volume Shadow Copy service is stopping.
The Volume Shadow Copy service was stopped successfully.

 
Stopping PSTCopy on Wed 10/14/2015 at 15:38:13.90
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and here is the .batch file I use and ran every time

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echo ***************************************************************** >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt
echo Starting PSTCopy on %date% at %time% >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt
echo. >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

net start vss >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

net use B: /DELETE >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

start /wait net use B: \\sabsrv\pst UserPassword /USER:UserName /PERSISTENT:No >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

cd ..\..

cd PSTCopy

hobocopy /full /y /r "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\" "B:\UserFolder" "*.pst" >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

net use B: /DELETE >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

net stop vss >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

echo. >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt
echo Stopping PSTCopy on %date% at %time% >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt
echo ***************************************************************** >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt
echo. >> C:\PSTCopy\RunLog.txt

Pause
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i will really appreciated if you can help me out, i am not to good at his and i finding a solid wall here!

does a statefile need to be created the first time i ran hoboCopy? do i created? does it go in the source folder?

please help, Thanks!

[Craig Andera]

I recommend you switch to ShadowSpawn: http://github.com/candera/shadowspawn. Hobocopy has a sort of half-baked copy tool built into it; use shadowspawn to launch something like robocopy or rsync, which are much better copy tools. Copying files turns out to be a hard problem, so ShadowSpawn is just the shadow copy part of hobocopy, with the ability to farm out the rest to some other, more capable tool.

That said, I don't really support either hobocopy nor shadowspawn any longer, as I use Windows only for gaming.

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