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I enjoy the process of sharing some of my work as open source. One of my more successful efforts in that area has been Hobocopy.
 
Like most (really, all) software, it's not done. There are any number of things I'd like to add to it, and I still get occasional requests from people for enhancements or bugfixes. But, due to one thing and another, I just haven't been able to get around to doing any work on it for months. So I'm asking you, dear LazyWeb, if you know of anyone who would be interested in adopting this poor, neglected, digital offspring of mine. 
 
I'm open to whatever arrangement that maintains the MIT nature of the license, so if you'd rather move the code somewhere else or transfer the copyright, that's cool with me. Or we can keep it where it is and I can set you up as a contributor.
 
Hobocopy is written in C++. Not very good C++, mind you, but C++ skills are still required. Although with sufficient work, we could probably factor out the bit that needs to be in C++ and rewrite everything else in C#. I'm happy to help with design direction via email, I just don't have time to hack.
 
Anyway, let me know if you're interested. It's a good tool and I'd love to see someone pick it up and move it forward.
Posted May 23 2008, 09:44 AM by craig-andera

Comments

deeb wrote re: Hobocopy Needs a New Daddy (or Mommy)
on 07-26-2008 12:24 PM

How does this work? Does it work at all? All I can see is a brief flash of a command line (I think that is what it is) and then... nothing. Woild like some detailed instructions.

craig-andera wrote re: Hobocopy Needs a New Daddy (or Mommy)
on 07-26-2008 1:27 PM

It is, as you guessed, a command-line tool. Generally, command-line tools are invoked either from a command shell (Start->Run->cmd.exe) or from a script of some sort. Hobocopy has no GUI, and as such isn't really intended to be used by simply double-clicking on it.

Yes, the documentation sucks. Sorry about that. To get started, try firing up cmd.exe and doing something like this:

hobocopy /r C:\directory\I\want\to\copy\from C:\directory\I\want\to\copy\to

Obviously, replace those fake directories with the ones you want to use. You can run hobocopy /? to get a bit more detail.

laserpanda wrote re: Hobocopy Needs a New Daddy (or Mommy)
on 08-09-2008 9:56 AM

hobocopy not recognized as an internal or external program or batch file?

craig-andera wrote re: Hobocopy Needs a New Daddy (or Mommy)
on 08-09-2008 10:13 AM

Hobocopy needs to be somewhere Windows can find it. Either change to the directory hobocopy is in or put in in your PATH somewhere.

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