Questions tagged [vss]
For tagging questions on the topic Microsoft's Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Not to be confused with Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe.
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What is "Microsoft shadow copy partition" partition used for?
I have a vm that restored from snapshot and find it cannot boot. compare it with the source vm, there is one extra partition "Microsoft shadow copy partition" created on it.
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Technical term for Cisco's VSS
What's the technical term for Virtual Switching System (VSS) by Cisco Systems?
In this Q&A, Cisco calls it a network system virtualization technology. Since I couldn't find another vendor using ...
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Searching for a file in all Volume Shadow Copies
A file was lost sometime in the last months. Part of the filename is known. The exact directory is not known, only that it must be somewhere below C:\MyFolder. Neither is the creation or deletion date....
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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.
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DLL Not Found (AlphaVSS.x64.dll)
I downloaded the AlphaVSS dll and example from (http://alphavss.alphaleonis.com/) to my windows 7 laptop (x64). When I run the example AlphaShadow create c: from an administrator command prompt ...
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Windows does not allow creating VSS shadow copy on removable USB flash disk, why?
I formatted a 16GB USB flash disk to NTFS and tried to make it VSS available, but failed. I tried to do it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, running
vssadmin create shadow /for=e:
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How can I create a shadow copy in windows7/8 in a batch file?
On server operating systems I can (and do) create a shadow copy of a volume and mount that copy using mklink before copying a folder that almost always has open files. See below for Q&D example.
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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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Audio buzz and video glitch when any update or restore point creation starts the Volume Shadow Service
I have the above problem and see that others do too. I've had no help from Microsoft and am asking if anyone else knows a solution. Please post if you do.
Here is a description of the problem, what ...
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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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Make Microsoft Security Essentials ignore items in shadow copy
On my computer are some programs that I have written and compiled, but MSE kept finding them and was always wanting to quarantine them, so I added my dev directory to the ignore list. That's fine.
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What is VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service)
I read about VSS here. According to the article , VSS takes a backup of the entire volume.
Where does this backup of the Volume get stored ? If its on the volume itself then its pretty unsafe right ?
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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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A few questions about windows 7 snapshots
I have been googling a while, but I am a bit confused about Microsoft VSS technology.
Currently I am running Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit - everything patched to the latest versions. My system has one ...
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