Windows: Copy Open Files

VSS did NOT exist in Windows 2000 or earlier, so none of the below will work in W2K. XP supports "temporary" shadow copies.
a script that smartly uses Volume Shadow Services to copy an open file. This is great for copying .pst files... and I will attempt to copy MSDE or SQL Server database files...
http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2005/01/05/346793.aspx
Hobocopy, a robocopy style tool that uses VSS to copy locked files. Hobocopy has moved to: https://github.com/candera/hobocopy/downloads
- hobocopy syntax for copying is exactly the same as DOS copy, but entire tree is copied by default.
- e.g. hobocopy c:\Program FIles\Microsoft SQL Server to C:\Backup\hobocopy-SQL /r
- /r = recursive
Mounts a shadow volume (allowing things like robocopy to work on open files) - derived from hobocopy - https://github.com/candera/shadowspawn
Similar? Seems designed to work for tools like backups - http://vscsc.sourceforge.net/

tags: windows, winxp, copy, locked, lock, vss, vshadow.exe, .cmd