Does VV lock files during backup?

[Alan2]

Hi there,

we are currently testing your software for file replications on workdays.
We have detected that files like word documents currently in use are somehow locked during backups with VV. The question is where does this file locking come from? We are using shadow copies and therefore there shouldn't be any locking? Is this really because of VV - doesn't it release files after locking them? Users complain that their documents are suddenly locked by unknown.

The rest of this software seems to fit perfectly in our environment. Thanks!

Details:
Comparison
- Comparison Type: Size and Timestamp
- Ignore 2 seconds difference
- Ignore any second difference
Execution
- Method: Backup (Mirror Source to Target)
- No overwrite / read-only / error confirmations
- Log only summary and errors
- No archive for deleted/replaced source files
- No archive for deleted/replaced target files
- Limit Bandwidth to: 50,00MB/Sec
- Speed: 20 Buffer Size: 8388608
- Copy files even if timestamp changes after initial comparison
- Copy directly to destination file (do not use a temporary file)
- Try to copy files that are in use by other applications and if not possible skip them
- Use 'Volume Shadow Copy' to copy open files for source
- Copy file/folder permissions
- Copy file/folder auditing
- Copy file/folder owner
- Retain folder created and modified timestamps when copying
- Preserve last accessed timestamp of files being copied
- Replace newer target files with older source files (backup only)

[TGRMN Software]

The only explanation would be that the shadow coy is maybe failing... could you check the profile log? thanks
_________________
--
TGRMN Software Support
http://www.tgrmn.com
http://www.compareandmerge.com

[Alan2]

Hello,

thanks for your feedback. We found out that VV was not causing this problem. It is still working without any problems.

[TGRMN Software]

OK, great that it is working now!
_________________
--
TGRMN Software Support
http://www.tgrmn.com
http://www.compareandmerge.com