Shared Drive Access - replacement for COPY command

[Gary Ward]

Hello,

I have come across your hobocopy project on the Internet.

Up to a week ago my client had a Windows 2003 server.

With this as the system centre and all main database files being located
on a shared network drive g: I was able to happily use the COPY command
E.G. COPY G:\DATA\ADATAFILE.??? C:\MYCOPY

I also had Genie Backup Manager chugging away making an incremental
backup every 5 minutes for the last month.

The Genie product literally kept an essential copy of the database files
that was only 5 minutes old.

Then the server was *upgraded* to a Small Business Server 2011.

Now I am unable to use the COPY command on any file that is in use.
(That's 24 hours a day 7 days a week!!!!!)

I am also unable to include any "in use" file in the back up using the
very same product that was ensuring I previously has a relatively real
time copy of the data.

These 2 events are causing me serious support problems.

So....

Would your product at least enable me to make copies of databases that
are in use on a shared network drive?

The data I require to periodically make full copies of are stored on
the D: drive of the server.

The exact share path mapped to G: is \\Server\Applications

The folder I require to copy file from onto my local C: drive is
\\Server\Applications\SystemData

Previously I just opened a Command Prompt.

Typed
G:<ENTER>
cd systemdata<ENTER>
C: <ENTER>
cd \mycopy<ENTER>

Then just used:

copy g:<whatever> . <ENTER>

Nice and simple for literally years!!!

Sorry to be long winded.

Essentially in the first instance can hobocopy be used in a similar
fashion to how I have been using the COPY command??

I appreciate it can't get the Genie backup manager to operate as before
but that I suppose is progress.

Many thanks in advance of any assistance.

Regards


Gary Ward.

[Craig Andera]

The Volume Shadow Service (on top of which hobocopy is built) cannot
provide shadow images of network files. It's only for local volumes.
So I don't think we can help with your problem. You'd have to run the
command on the file server itself. You can do that with various tools
whose name I forget, or via RDP.