Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [vss]

Volume Shadow Copy Service

Shadow Copy (Volume Snapshot Service aka Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS)

It allows taking manual or automatic backup copies or snapshots of data, even if it has a lock, on a specific volume at a specific point in time over regular intervals

187 questions
0
votes
2 answers

VSS Post Backup failures for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 virtual machines

We've been seeing strange errors with Volume Shadow Copy services on our Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 host. It appears to be failing on a strange mountpoint in the C:\WINDOWS\Temp\ folders, which I believe is used by VSS to mount a writeable image…
califguy4christ
0
votes
0 answers

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 shadow Copy to save storage space and time. Since…
IT Researcher143
  • 9
  • 3
0
votes
1 answer

Samba shadow_copy2 and snapshots don't appear in windows

I'm setting up Ubuntu server with Samba. The file system is BTRFS and I can't seem to get Windows to see the previous versions from the snapshots. My smb.conf has this for the share: [Backup] path = /mnt/pool1/backup comment = Share for…
Arthur Mitchell
  • 1
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

Throttle Windows to match local storage, to prevent SVI buildup?

I'm seeing a rather large number of machines lately with System Volume Information folders ranging from large (50G) to huge (350G), on both desktops (Windows 10, various builds) and servers (2012R2, 2016, 2019). I have ways of clearing them fairly…
Jonathan Brickman of Topeka KS
  • 35
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

Data Loss Event ID 25 "The shadow copies on Volume E: were deleted because shadow copy storage could not grow in time."

I am experiencing loss of shadow copies, and this is accompanied by eventId 25: Log Name: System Source: Volsnap Date: 8/27/2020 6:41:11 PM Event ID: 25 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: …
user1071840
  • 125
  • 1
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

VSS backup acess is denied WinServ2016

On my windows server 2016 I userd disk2vhd for backups, but for some reason last backups that disk2vhd created in last time was invalid. Disks works ok and whole system too. So I want to make backups with VSS, I created vss snapshot mounted it as…
Sergey92zp
  • 119
  • 5
0
votes
1 answer

Google Cloud Platform, taking snapshot of SQL server concerns

I would like to take a snapshot of my SQL server that is running in GCP prior to applying patches. What is the suggested safe way of doing so? Coming from VMware world, I always omitted memory from snapshots but in GCP there is no such option. The…
Norskyi
  • 1
  • 3
1 2 3
…
12
13