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Posted: **Sun Feb 14, 2016 9:06 am**

wimlib-imagex capture "/home/shares/" "/mnt/external/shares.wim" "Shares `date`" --unix-data --compress=lzx --threads=4
Scanning "/home/shares/"
102 GiB scanned (109241 files, 11767 directories)
Using LZX compression with 4 threads
[ERROR] Can't open "/home/shares//scanner/doc00546220160208114158.pdf": No such file or directory
ERROR: Exiting with error code 47:
       Failed to open a file.

Posted: **Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:18 pm**

Creating archives from directory trees which are being concurrently modified is not supported. There are many race conditions which can occur in such scenarios.

Posted: **Mon Feb 15, 2016 3:41 am**

If you can make a snapshot (eg, with LVM, btrfs, ZFS...), run the backup from the snapshot instead

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Currently used files backup on Linux. Code 47.

Currently used files backup on Linux. Code 47.

Re: Currently used files backup on Linux. Code 47.

Re: Currently used files backup on Linux. Code 47.