 However,a separate utility such as codice_30 (Free, Open Sourced, and MIT Licensed) or codice_31 ($30 - $50) or codice_32 (included with Windows Server 2008), can be used beforehand to create a shadow copy of a given volume, which Robocopy can then back up.Although Robocopy itself is a command-line tool, Microsoft TechNet provides a GUI front-end called Robocopy GUI.It was developed by Derk Benisch, a systems engineer with the MSN Search group at Microsoft, and required .NET Framework 2.0.