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Questions tagged [shadow-copies]

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How to use a Volume Shadow Copy to make backups

The plan is to create a shadow copy of a quite large, I/O-heavy volume. It's 350GB, containing a filesystem-based fulltext index organized in hundreds of folders and hundred-thousands of tiny files that need to be in a consistent state for a…
Tomalak
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Method for setting up Volume Shadow Copies on Server Core

Is there some obvious method I am not finding for how to setup the periodic creation of shadow copies for a given drive on a system running Windows without a GUI? From what I can tell going to the Shadow Copies tab of disk properties and clicking…
Zoredache
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Windows 2008 R2 - shadow copy management and retention

This has bothered me over the years and I'm dealing with it again now. I've never quite understood the full black magic that is Shadow Copies/VSS. I get it to the extent of what it does and how to initially set it up and set the schedules on the…
TheCleaner
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Samba Read-only shadow copies

We are currently running a FreeNAS 11.1-U6 machine (Which runs Samba 4.7.0) which we use for development. Since sometimes files get overwritten or deleted by accident before it gets committed in our VCS i have setup automatic snapshots every 15…
WarriorXK
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Mixing Volume Shadow Copy and Data Deduplication in Windows Server

I'm using Windows Server 2012 and I'm creating a scheduled backup for multiple Hyper-V guests (all of them are Windows Server 2012) to a dynamic VHDX on a removable USB drive (so that I can alternate two drives and have two sets of backups). I…
Iravanchi
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Is there a hard volume size limitation for shadow copies w/ 2k3 x86?

I'm trying to create shadow copies of 10TB volumes but am having no luck. I've gone down dozens of paths based on the errors (most of them very vague and/or misleading) and the only true correlation to success or failure I can find is with volume…
Uninspired
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Web site fails to start when trying to use shadow copy, no useful info in the event log

I have an ASP.NET Blazor web site, using .NET7 running on Windows Server 2022/IIS 10. Due to some problems I'm having with uploads, I decided to try enabling shadow copy, as this is supposed to avoid this problem. I followed the info on this blog…
Avrohom Yisroel
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.zfs folder's missing, but snapshots are still there and mountable (inode trouble?)

$ sudo zfs list -t snapshot | grep childDataset3 a whole bunch are listed as expected (e.g. pool/dataset/childDataset3@today) $ ls /pool/dataset/childDataset3/.zfs ls: cannot access '/pool/dataset/childDataset3/.zfs': No such file or directory I…
S Hunter Simpson
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Failed to Create the Storage area Association when trying to setup Shadow Copies

Been having some issues with a Windows Server 2022 VM that had Shadow Copies enabled. E: Data S: Copy I had the shadow copy go to the S: After some issue, I did a VM restore and deleted the S: Disabled Shadow Copies Then edited the VM and added a…
3BeansandDreams
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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
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Issue with shadow copies in 2012 R2 file server cluster

I have recently created a 2012 R2 file server cluster, and am trying to enable shadow copies. When I right click the drive containing user data within the failover cluster manager, and click properties, I can go to the Shadow Copies tab. If I select…
James Edmonds
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Shadow Copies not growing to maximum

I have a 2008R2 and 2012 servers that has been in production for quite some time, running smoothly - I have never paid attention to VSS. Various volumes with Shares are setup to capture shadows copies - every hours every day. The storage area is set…
KitKatNeko
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Can't get Samba smv.conf shadow copy snapprefix to recognise snaps

I'm really with this one. What I'm aiming for is that snpshots with an optional tag at the front, as well as untagged snaps are seen in windows as previous copies, e.g. file names such…
Arthur Mitchell
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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
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Windows Server 2019, Hide or Disable file history (Shadow Copy) for users in active directory that accessing a network share

tl;dr; We need to disable or hide the file history for active directory users who access a network shared folder, so that only the IT team can restore files to previous versions. We have a small server with Windows Server 2019. In this server we…
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