Questions tagged [volume-shadow-copy]
Volume Shadow Copy is a mechanism for creating and storing snapshots (shadow copies) on NTFS filesystems.
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File Server Resource Manager Expiration Tasks fails with Shadow Copy error
I'm running Windows Server 2012 with File Server Resource Manager role. We have two tasks configured to remove stale files on a X drive. This week I started to see the errors below in Windows ...
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Previous versions tab from Volume Shadow Services
In Windows 7 I had the following habit:
Create a system restore point (which creates a shadow copy)
Make some heavy changes to files
Open [Properties > previous versions > Timestamp] of a ...
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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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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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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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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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Deleting shadow copies on Windows XP
I have a command-and-control PC that runs a specific Legacy Software. The software is black-box and cannot be modified or changed in behavior. To have "live" insight, I've scheduled a job such that ...
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Restore Windows 10 Partition on every boot to previously defined state
we, a non profit youth center, are running a view windows 10 Pro computers on which the kids can play and research.
Because of the limited time of the volunteers to maintain these computers, we are ...
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Outlook OST files not backed up by VSS engine
I just found, to my user's annoyance, that Windows VSS engine ignores Outlook's .OST files. This is set by default in the registry here,
and acknowledged at,
https://kb.acronis.com/content/48032
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Shadow Copies are properly created, but in Explorer I can’t access to “previous versions” (reported as not available)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: I always utilized the shadow copies, not only to restore the OS to a previous version: I mainly use the shadow copies to restore single files, by using the "Previous ...
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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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Shadow Copy With Storage Spaces?
I converted 2 of my drives to be a mirrored storage space on windows 10. I am using ReFS. This drive is d drive.
When I create a restore point the dialog that comes up does not have d drive in it.
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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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How to configure System Restore to restore "everything"?
Given that I can browse a restore point and see the deleted files, how to restore this point completely? When I try to, Windows says everything's fine, but the files I was looking for weren't restored ...
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