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Updated How to enable VSS for rclone (markdown)
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@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ If Veeam backup software would run again while rclone is still uploading, Veeam
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So I create a VSS read-only point-in-time snapshot and have rclone use that as the source.
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Now rclone can takes its time, upload, sync, check or whatever and not be concerned that the data will be modified.
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1. The snapshot data is read-only. Attempting to delete a file will generate a read-only error.
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2. The snapshot data is never in-use. rclone will not get an error about in-use files.
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3. The snapshot data is never locked. rclone will not get an error about locked files.
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Yeah, you want that, you know you need that, and you can have it with a few lines of code.
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Let's say that I want to sync c:\data\ to the cloud.
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1 - Create a file named vs.cmd:
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@ -36,10 +40,7 @@ exec.cmd will:
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2. Create a symbolc link to the snapshot.
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3. Run rclone with the source as c:\snapshot\data\, not c:\data\.
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4. Delete the symbolc link.
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Note that:
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1. c:\snapshot is read-only, trying to delete a file will generate an error.
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2. All the files are readable, you will not get errors about in-use or locked files.
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3. c:\snapshot is a temporaty link only accessible while exec.cmd is running. when exec.cmd exits, the link is removed by Windows operating system.
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Note that c:\snapshot\ is a temporaty link only accessible while exec.cmd is running. when exec.cmd exits, the snapshot is removed by Windows operating system.
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I find it confusing, that c:\snapshot\ is a mirror image of c:\; when writing more complex scripts, this confusion was leading to errors.
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So I will give you 3 workarounds for clear code for exec.cmd.
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