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Volume Shadow Service
Cobian Backup can now copy files that are in exclusive use by other applications. It does so by using Volume Shadow Services, a technology that is present on Windows XP or a newer MS operative system.

What is Volume Shadow Copy Service?
VSS is a mechanism for creating consistent point-in-time copies of data known as shadow copies. The Volume Shadow Copy Service can produce consistent shadow copies by coordinating with business applications, file-system services, backup applications, fast recovery solutions, and storage hardware.

The Volume Shadow Copy Service is commonly used in the following scenarios:

Consistent backups of open files and applications: Applications that are running often keep their files open continuously. For backup, this can present a problem because this prevents backup applications from accessing and copying these files to backup media. Even if an application does not have its files open, it is possible—because of the finite time needed to open, back up, and close a file—that files copied to the backup media might not all reflect the same application state at the same point in time.

Additionally, backing up servers that are running critical applications such as databases or messaging services presents a unique challenge. These applications run in a volatile state as a result of extensive optimizations that deal with huge flows of transactions and messages. Because these applications keep their data in a constant flux between memory and disk, it is difficult to pinpoint the data that needs to be archived.

The most straightforward solution is to interrupt the application during backup, which puts the data into a stable state, but might result in unacceptable amounts of downtime, particularly if the applications are large.

For both problems, the Volume Shadow Copy Service provides a solution by enabling a snapshot of the data at a given point in time, while minimizing the interruption to applications. This can involve cooperation from the applications, so that they can notify the operating system that they are briefly quiescing their data for archival. During quiescence, applications make data on the disk consistent. For example, an application might flush its buffers to disk or write out in-memory data to disk.

Command line
This version has dropped the special command line utility from older versions. Now you can use the application from the command line. The arguments are:

-nogui Don't start the user interface

-autoclose Close the program when the backup is done

-bu Backup all the tasks immediately

-list:(ListName) start the program using the list on ListName. If the list name contains spaces, surround THE WHOLE argument between quotes.

-m Maximizes the user interface

-tasks:(tasks ids) indicates the tasks to backup inmediatelly



Example: Cobian.exe "-list:C:\Program Files\List.lst" "-tasks:{A26-34-33E02},{A67-34-33E02}" -bu -nogui