Windows shadow copy failures skip locked files
Windows snapshot providers fail to create shadow copies, so locked files are skipped or the backup errors out.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 2 September 2026 · last reported 4 September 2026
What's going wrong
Backups on Windows failed to create volume shadow copies with several providers, causing locked files to be excluded and sometimes errors such as duplicate key or timeouts.
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