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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

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How do I restore 1/2 of all files in a VSS image? aka Previous Version in bulk?

Suppose I have many files that were virus infected in bulk. It isn't the entire drive, but 1/2 of it. I don't want to right click each folder and restore a previous version. Is there a way to do Previous Version in bulk, or similar? I found some…
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Disk2vhd : error during copy. The error could not be performed due to an I/O error

I'm trying to convert a fully patched, Windows Server2008 R2 system disk into a VHD by using disk2vhd from Microsoft Sysinternals. Every time, the conversion fails with error during copy. The error could not be performed due to an I/O error,…
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Can Windows VSS create a snapshot for units smaller than a single volume

Can Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) create a snapshot for units smaller than a single volume (that is, a set of files and directories)? If yes, how can one see (prefferably via UI) for each snapshot of a given volume which files/directories…
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Shadow Copies are not being taken for all subfolders

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…
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An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine

I got an backup issue on one of my VM. Here is the current situation: Using Acronis backup to backup my VM vmProtect 9 Server I want to get backup is Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition Service Pack2 Using vSphere client to manage my VMs…
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Using Volume Shadow Copy to Identify Updated Files

I have folders in my server with over 60GBs of data across ~160,000+ files. The files in this folder change regularly. I need to be able to make a backup copy of the files in this folder at a given point in time. Later, after updates have been made,…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - Restore Previous Versions - Restored File Filled with Nulls

The Restore Previous versions feature on my file server stopped working some time in the recent past. If I look at the Previous Version for a file or folder the items are listed and they show a valid file size. However, when I restore a previous…
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Shadow copies for local files on Windows Server 2012 or alternative

I hope serverfault is the right place for this - if not, please tell me where to post it. The situation is the following: our company has a WebDAV fileserver running on a Windows Server 2012 that I am now in charge of. My boss wants backups of every…
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Implications and ability to use network drive for storing ShadowCopy data of local drive in Server 2003?

I have ShadowCopy running on a shared drive in SBS 2003 that is 90% full. Checking the space, 10GB of that is currently being used for shadowcopy: vssadmin list shadowstorage Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 8.814 GB Allocated Shadow Copy Storage…
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Server 2012: System writer is not found in the backup

I recently installed the Windows Server Backup feature on my Windows Server 2012. When I try to create a backup (full) I get the following error: System writer is not found in the backup. I followed this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009272…
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Cisco 6500 vss mode upgrade

This is not my network. I'm trying to understand why my cloud provider insists that they need to take down both routers when performing updates. From what I understand they have 2 Cisco 6500s clustered via VSS, active-active. When they perform an…
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vSphere Replication Guest OS Quiescing

I am using vSphere Replication 5.1 to send virtual machines to a separate datastore every 24 hours. One option in configuring each VMs replication is the Guest OS Quiescing option. Options are None and MS Shadow Copy Services (VSS). I not sure what…
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WBAdmin SystemState Problems

I recently installed DHCP on my 2008R2 Server and now Backup Exec and WBAdmin/WSB is having System State issues. Essentially, after some research, I came across a handy tool called VSHADOW which has allowed me to output all the files (and their…
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VSS fails on creating snapshot - various VSS writers failed state, timed out

I have several errors in my log. My environment is: Server 2008 R2 (virtual machines on Server Core stack). AppAssure Replay 4 as the backup solution. In the evening backup goes okay usually, snapshots get created fine. During the day and other…
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How to hide shadow-copies in NFS shares?

I have a Ubuntu server with both samba and nfs-server. The server does snapshotting for the exported directory and the samba server uses the snapshots to emulate shadow copies. ( vfs objects = shadow_copy ) When I export the same directory via NFS,…
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