The Volume Shadow Copy feature I wrote about last time is interesting enough (and quirky enough) that it seemed like a good idea to throw out a few more details. For starters, shadow copies are ...

I am demoing the capablilties of shadow copies in windows server 2003 to my boss and he seems to love it. he thought it was cool that a user can restore previous versions of a file but got a little ...

The limitation in number of shadow copies per volume is set at 64. If you try to create any more shadow copies, you will encounter a VSS error. Also, when it hits the ...

While the VSSADMIN tool is fine for administering shadow copies, you may want more capabilities, especially if you want to automate some shadow copy activities in a script. The VSHADOW tool might be ...

Is anybody using Shadow Copies for your file server? Or are you just using a nightly backup? I back up every night. If a user deletes something, it's easy and quick for me or my boss to restore from ...

When taking an image-based backup or after the termination of the scheduled backup, we checked the logs in Event Viewer and stumbled upon the following error message ...