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gmccracken

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April 27th, 2016 06:00

How to make EMCopy 4.16 Copy Locked files?

This is a  two part question:

1) How does EMCopy behave when it encounters locked files during a large copy process?

   a. I have read, that it fails and does not skip to the next file queued for copying.

   b. I have read that it deletes a pre-existing destination file if it attempts to re-copy that file while it is locked.

   c. What other limitations does it have?

2) How are people (or how can I)  programmatically (with Powershell) ensure that EMCopy copies all of the files from our source drives/folders to the targeted destination with no exceptions, even if some files may be in use.

Thank you,

Greg

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May 31st, 2016 18:00

PeterMac wrote:

2.) Normally, with EMCopy (and Robocopy, and many similar tools) you run several passes. One full copy and several incremental synchronizing passes. Then take down user/application access to the source, do one final pass while no-one is using the source so that everything is fully synchronized, and then cut over to the target system. Some of the more sophisticated migration tools (Data Dynamics "StorageX", Data Dobi "Dobi Miner") have built-in job sequencing for automating these sort of functions. On free tools like EMCopy and Robocopy you just have to remember to do it manually.

Robocopy

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Monitors source, and runs again in M minutes if changes are detected.

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