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Restore huge file from shadow copy without copying
I have a volume with a shadow copy. The shadow copy contains a very big file (let's say 100 GB). The shadow copy is on the same disk as the volume it is shadowing. The "original" file got ...
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What causes Volume Shadow Copy to enable itself without user intervention?
I have been dealing with issues where the empty space on the C drive always goes to 0. I would run through the normal steps to empty space. But, the space would always be taken back down to 0. This is ...
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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 Exclude Files and Folders from Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Backups
I've been using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to create backups of my files and folders. However, I've encountered a situation :
I need to exclude specific files and folders from Microsoft built-in Volume ...
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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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volume shadow copy, used space by folder
When creating a volume shadow copy of a drive, e.g. by calling wmic shadowcopy call create Volume=c:\, a snapshot of all files is stored in the "System Volume Information" folder.
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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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How to copy directory stucture, folders, sub-folders, files properties,metadata wihtout copying the actual content of files?
Softwares like DirLister, Snap2HTML
I have a external disk of size 2tb,, and laptop with 500gb SSD and free time at work..
Copy Volume Shadow of External Disk, just directory structure and files, ...
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How to address (hidden) volume for vssadmin
I have a volume named like this
\\?\Volume{fc3a230-ef05-d9875-c2fa-3aacteb234}\
How can I address this in the following command
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=\\?\Volume{fc3a230-ef05-d9875-c2fa-...
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Mounting a Windows Volume Shadow Copy on Linux using libvshadow
I've come across a couple of instances lately where I have access to the raw files created by the Volume Shadow Service on Windows, where my goal is to recover files from the Shadow Copy that we no ...
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Windows 10 system image fails
I am having trouble making a system image of my Windows 10 installation. The problem started occurring after I upgraded to an SSD from an HDD. (I used EaseUS to copy my Windows installation on the HDD ...
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Error on "vssadmin list shadows"
Using an admin cmd prompt, I typed: vssadmin list shadows, and got the following:
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {...}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: ...
Error: The shadow ...
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What does "parse junctions" mean when copying all files to another drive?
The free program Shadow Copy is supposed to copy all files from one drive to another, including system and hidden files, so the destination will also be bootable if the source was.
There is an option ...
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volsnap: The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:
I have the following error appearing in Event Viewer several times per day:
The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:.
source: volsnap
Nothing found in web ...
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Windows 8.1 Insufficient storage available to create shadow copy
[Note: After I entered the problem statement, I found this question, which is apparently the same problem. Maybe one of us will get a good answer...]
I have used the "Windows 7 File Recovery" tool ...
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Audio/video glitch when Shadow Copy service starts?
I have a Windows 7 64 bit PC that I've started having a strange issue with. Every so often my computer "freezes" for a second or two; any audio will be distorted for those couple seconds and video ...
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Shadow Copy nightmares with Windows 7 + SSD
My backups act horrible. It will sit for 20 minutes, locking up the machine attempting to do a shadow copy. When I look at the event logs, it is loaded with the error:
Volume Shadow Copy Service ...
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Prevent System Restore Point from being created during Install
Whenever I install using .MSI, the system freezes right after starting the Volume Shadow Copy Service/etc, and creating a System Restore Point.
If possible, I'd rather not disable System Restore, as ...
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How does VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) handle locked files?
Take this (certainly simplified) description from the HoboCopy tool:
HoboCopy is a backup/copy tool. (...)
It uses the Volume
Shadow Service (VSS) to "snapshot" the
disk before copying. It ...
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Prevent Windows XP from deleting Volume Shadow Copy created by Windows 7
I have a harddisk with an NTFS-partition which I use on both Windows XP and Windows 7. When starting my system with Windows XP SP2 the Volume Shadow Copies (I think they are stored in the "System ...
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Mozy fails along with this error
Any idea how to fix this?
MozyHome backup is failing at the same time with a FilesystemError2.
Windows 7 64-bit. Thanks!
Log Name: Application
Source: VSS
Date: 12/18/2009 12:...
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Volume Shadow Copy based backup that works with TrueCrypt?
I have enabled whole-drive encryption on my external drive to comply with my company's requirements about data security. I want to be able to make a backup of files on the drive, even while they're in ...
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