NTFS Change Journal about w32 HOT 2 CLOSED

You probably already know this but if you can keep your program running all the time, you can use something that's already implemented, mature and cross-platform for change event notifications: What about https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify?

The answer to your question is "yes" it's possible. In fact probably pretty easy. Calling CreateFile (according to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365259(v=vs.85).aspx) followed by using this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364558(v=vs.85).aspx

from w32.

I want to use this in a backup utility so watching for files changes when size is large eg:900GB, it would not scale well.
USN Journal, it can work well as it already keeps tab on changed files so i can query USN Journal and copy files that are only changed.

Thanks for the https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify, i reviewed that and they are also not supporting USN Journal at this time.

from w32.