Questions tagged [vssadmin]

On all versions of Windows Server from 2012R2 onward, we are seeing System Volume Information folders, especially on server C: drives but also others, often filling up with hundreds of gigabytes of orphan shadows. We have been able to alleviate this…

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…

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…