id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
13	Fix file locking on Windows	chris	chris	"There are two locking issues on Windows: Box cannot back up open files, and while Box is backing up a file, other applications cannot open it for writing.

Changing our access method to [http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library//3CF204E6-709A-4EB8-8CBC-AD9655DE91BA1033.mspx Volume Shadow Copy Service] is probably the right fix for both of these, but it only works on XP and above, and I cannot install the SDK it on my development machine. I would also like to make it work with MinGW without requiring a restrictively-licensed SDK download from Microsoft.

Please could someone use a Windows machine (XP or above, Windows Activation compliant) to download the SDK and [mailto:chris+sdk@qwirx.com send it to me]?

Another option (workaround) might be to use the Windows command-line tools to create a shadow copy and back that up instead of the original. However, I think that would be a kluge, difficult to install, and difficult to detect and handle errors with."	defect	new	normal	0.12	bbackupd	0.10		windows file locking locked volume shadow copy service vss