Questions tagged [shadow-copy]
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How to unstick the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service?
The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on my Windows 10 22H2 PC appears to be stuck creating a shadow copy. How do I unstick it?
I noticed my backup software (Arq) hanging for two days on "Creating ...
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How to delete shadowstorage for volume?
vssadmin list shadowstorage show which volumes created shadowstorage, I want delete it for some volumes, vssadmin delete shadowstorage available on windows server 2008 r2, but not exists on 2019 any ...
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Shadow copy storage space: difference between, and control over, "Used", "Allocated" and "Maximum" (in Windows 7)?
Using the vssadmin list shadowstorage command in Windows 7, one gets an overview of the disk space related to shadow copies. Typically three values are returned:
Used Shadow Copy Storage space
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Shadow copies not included after a Windows 7 system restore from system image using Backup and Restore
I want to transfer a Windows 7 install from a 500 GB HDD to a SSD, including the shadow copies (and thus the restore points, previous versions of files, etc.).
The source disk has 4 partitions, and ...
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How can I create a copy-on-write copy of a folder on Windows 10?
There's plenty of documentation on btrfs CoW, ZFS deduplication, and whatnot, but theoretically NTFS also has a CoW feature that Windows uses to give you the "previous versions" feature among other ...
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Can't copy Windows.edb ESE database using ShadowCopy
I'm trying to copy opened file in Windows 10 by ShadowCopy V2.02 by Runtime Software. It works on other files but when I try to copy from this path C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\...
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Samba shadow_copy2 snapshots not showing up in Windows Previous Versions?
I'm using Samba 4.5 with ZFS as a file share to a Windows 8.1 client. Samba itself is working and I've tested my smb.conf using testparm - it looks correct. The smbd log doesn't show any errors. But I'...
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Can't create shadow copy in command line
Hopefully someone can explain me what I'm doing wrong. I'd like to create a shadow copy from command line so I started one with administrative rights and enter this command:
vssadmin create shadow /...
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How to restore my latop using shadow copy
In the past hours my laptop is always getting BSOD with the problem on BSCSISDA.sys, so it tried to update the driver, but before updating the driver i tried to create a restore point. But while ...
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Using Windows Restore Previous Versions Yields Error Due To Access Rights
This seems like a which came first, chicken or the egg situation...
I have a folder that I have been shadow coping for a while. This has been working great and restores have been a breeze when a ...
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Delete files from shared folder
I am trying to safely delete files from a shared folder hosted on the server. However the file doesn't move to the recycle bin when deleted because I'm not the owner. How do I force the file to be ...
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Procedure for using Previous Versions to restore a folder that was accidentally deleted, without restoring everything around it
We have ShadowCopy enabled so that files can be reverted to previous versions. Sometimes, a folder is accidentally deleted. The known fix is to restore the containing folder, but that restores ...
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volume shadow copy always fails
Starting from last December, I cannot make any shadow copies. Everything which uses shadow copies, including Windows backup, System Restore and online disk check fails. My system is running Windows 8 ...
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How much space does volume shadowing take up?
So for example in a server environment I set up shadowing on volume N, how much space do I assign for it?
Would a 1mb word document take up 1mb shadowing space on the volume?
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FreeBSD password file
What would be FreeBSD password file equivalent of linux /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd? Is it the same?
According to what I heard /etc/passwd exists in FreeBSD, but not sure in case of /etc/shadow.
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