Do I Need To Disable Shares During Conversion?

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PD543
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Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:25 am

I am going to be doing a P2V of a file server.
I expect it will take several hours.
Do I need to disable the shares before starting the conversion so no one is accessing or changing data during the conversion, or can I do it "live" and the tool with pickup the changes as they are made?
I assume disabling the shares is safer but it also results it much more downtime so I'd rather not do it if I don't have to.

Thanks.

Peter
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Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:20 am

StarWind V2V converter is making a snapshot before conversion and all the changes after the start are not included.
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