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in reply to File::Copy - locked files

Not a good idea!

Wait for the lock to be released. Otherwise you may be putting an incomplete or outdated file into your backup collection. As with all backups, shortcomings don't usually get to be a big problem... until you actually need the backup, by which time, it's too late to fix the problem.


If you didn't program it by toggling in binary, it wasn't programming!