Questions tagged [shadow-copies]
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sqlservr.exe writing to System Volume Information folder
Our Microsoft SQL Server sometimes has performance issues due to extensive I/O being triggered.
We may have insufficient (in terms of performance) storage, but I noticed that during this behavior ...
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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:
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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 ...
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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 as:
/mnt/pool1/....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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/...
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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
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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 ...
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Restore Shadow Copy Deleted by Ransomware
I got hit by the latest version of Crysis ransom ware on 14/09. I was lucky enough to pull the cable on the infected PC before it could spread to all servers on my network.
However, it did spread to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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