Re: [PLUG] Backing up Windows to Linux

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:38 PM N. Albert via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> Personally, I've never had issues copying in use files on Windows. It's
> only moving or deleting in-use files that will trigger errors.

Having attempted to do what you guys are proposing I do, I can assure
you that it causes issues.  You can look up just about any place where
this topic is seriously discussed for countless examples of this being
an issue.

The registry hive is the most obvious example.

If you want to demonstrate this for yourself, go ahead and try to make
a copy of C:\Users\<username>\NTUSER.DAT

Hence the reason for requirement #3.  Like I originally said, I
realize that without VSS I'd get a 99.9% complete backup.  The problem
is that the 0.1% ends up being the stuff I'm most likely to end up
needing.

-- 
Rich
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