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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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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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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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 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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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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WHS 2011 error code '2155348249' when trying to make a server backup: low disk space for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
When I try to start the windows server backup it fails because of empty disk space. I get the following error message in the event log:
The backup operation that started at xxx has failed because ...
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How do I enable Volume Shadow Copies on a mounted VHD on Windows 8
How can I enable volume shadow copies for a mounted VHD volume on Windows 8?
The mounted volume does not appear in the list of volumes available to enable VSC on:
As you can see, VSC is enabled for ...
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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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Best practice with previous versions / shadow copy (CIFS storage)?
Currently I'm using previous versions (i.e. shadow copies) as backup for a network share.
I need to solve a problem with restoring:
when restoring a file only the owner can use previous versions....
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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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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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How should I restore Windows 7 using shadow copies?
I had some rogue or poorly-written software execute the equivalent of CTRL+A -> SHIFT+DEL on my C: drive right after a reboot required by a driver install. Every file that hadn't been running and hadn'...
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How to restore entire disk to a prior snapshot made using Shadow Copy using command line program?
I am trying to emulate software such as Faronics DeepFreeze using Win7's built-in Shadow Copy functionality.
I am able to create snapshot of entire disk, and I can see that changes are tracked.
Next,...
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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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