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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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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. Older ...
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Are VSS snapshots still created automatically in Windows 8 and later?

I've read conflicting information on this, so wanted to clarify the situation. With Windows Vista/7, several third-party tools exist that can mount the contents of a Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) snapshot ...
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volume shadow copy won't stay disabled

· i disabled volume shadow copy from services > properties · yet, it keeps auto-re-enabling · i then re-named vssadmin.exe to vssad.exe from C:\Windows\System32\ · but this didn't stop shadow ...
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VSS Versions not Visible to Users Viewing Windows 10 SMB Share

Setup I have a Windows 10 PC acting as a file server, with a single folder shared with all users of a Workgroup. The PC has been configured to backup the shared folder to a secondary HDD using VSS in ...
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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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Reserve minimum space for volume shadow copy

Is it possible to reserve a minimum amount of space used by the volume shadow copies of a given ntfs volume under windows 2008 R2 server? I know how to set the maximum size, but not the minimum. For ...
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Shadow copy recovered files contain lots of NULL blocks

A computer I am working on had most of the files on it encrypted by the TeslaCrypt ransomware program. I found that it did not delete the shadow copies and there may be a number of backups available. ...
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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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How Shadow Copy Service works? how it backups the data which we modified

I am Using Shadow Copy to restore my files,and restoring my files. I wonder how does it works.
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How to take backup of Previous Versions in Win 7?

Windows 7 keeps an archive of the Previous Versions of files using its Volume Shadow-Copy Service (VSS). How can I take a backup or image of the Previous Versions archive for a specific folder?
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How to set VSS (Shadow Copy) Retention

I am in the process of optimizing the VSS on our Windows Server 2008 SP2 machine. I would like to do the following: Run a snapshot at 11:59 AM and 11:59 PM every day Keep a retention of 30 days for ...
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