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I enabled Shadow Copies on a whole drive that holds user folder shares. As per the best practices, I re-directed the Shadow Volume to a different drive. Both are VHDs running on the same server, but that shouldn't prevent copies from being taken.

What is happening is, d:\share1 does not have any previous versions, but d:\share2 does. Even if I force a non-scheduled backup, share1 does not have anything listed in previous versions.

Furthermore, and to my dismay, d:\share2\user1 is backed up, but user2 is not, and within the user folders, it seems random as to which folders get backed up, and which don't.

Now, it's only been a few days since I enabled shadow copies, but I thought that if I forced a manual backup, it would get everything.

This is Server 2012, Running Hyper-V, and the VM (again 2012) has 3 drives, one boot, one data, and one datashadowcopy. If you need any more information I'd be happy to provide it.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

David Liese
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Shadow Copies are not "Backup", as in "everything gets copied on there". You will only see shadow copy data when something is either modified or deleted from a folder.

So as long as no one in d:\share2 changes or deletes anything, the shadow copy stays empty.

MichelZ
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  • Ahhh, thanks, the share that there are no copies of has all the users out this week, so that explains it. – David Liese Jul 29 '14 at 17:23
  • @MichelZ Why do we have to setup the scheduler at all, if there will be made a shadow copy if something is modified or deleted? Should this not be made immediately after the change? – PeterCo Feb 13 '20 at 14:46