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ShadowSpawn is a Windows utility that mounts a shadow copy of the disk at a drive letter and then spawns an arbitrary command.

What Is ShadowSpawn?

ShadowSpawn is a tool for working with shadow copies. Shadow copies are read-only snapshots of your disk. Working with shadow copies instead of the actual files allows you to do things like work with in-use (locked) files.

ShadowSpawn works by making a shadow copy of your disk, making it available at a drive letter, then launching (spawning) another program that you specify.

Probably the most common way to use ShadowSpawn is to use Robocopy make a copy of files that are currently in use.

For more information see the readme.

Scripts

• PowershellPlusRobocopy A Powershell script showing how to use ShadowSpawn and Robocopy together.

Change Log

0.2.0 - 05-Aug-2011

• Verify source exists and is a directory - closes #9
• Cleanup properly on Control-C and other abnormal shutdowns - closes #6
• Handle quotes - closes #4
• Handle relative pathnames

0.1.0 - 22-Jul-2011

• Initial release