Questions tagged [vss]
For tagging questions on the topic Microsoft's Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Not to be confused with Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe.
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Windows 10 lost about 60 GB after two System Restore operations, but shadow storage shows minimal usage – where did the space go?
After performing two System Restore operations on Windows 10 Pro 22H2, my system drive (C:) lost more than 60 GB of free space (about 30 GB per restore).
However, I cannot determine what is occupying ...
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Why can’t I find diskshadow.exe on my Windows 10 Pro setup?
I can use PowerShell to access some functionality of VSS but struggle to expose the kernel path created. As a remedy MS advises dishadow.exe utility, which of course, is not present on my system (and ...
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How to fix/investigate Windows Defender detecting malware in the VSS snapshots for Firefox cached files?
Update: Seems solved as of March 4.
I was able to remove the bypass (path exclusion in Defender) and perform backups without malware detection, even after re-accessing the site linked in the original ...
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How to unstick the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service?
The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on my Windows 10 22H2 PC appears to be stuck creating a shadow copy. How do I unstick it?
I noticed my backup software (Arq) hanging for two days on "Creating ...
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How to Exclude Files and Folders from Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Backups
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 ...
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Windows 11: Empty shadow copy tab
On my Windows 10 computers, I have a scheduled task to create shadow copies at regular time intervals. Works great.
The command is C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe shadowcopy call create Volume=C:\
I ...
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How to delete shadowstorage for volume?
vssadmin list shadowstorage show which volumes created shadowstorage, I want delete it for some volumes, vssadmin delete shadowstorage available on windows server 2008 r2, but not exists on 2019 any ...
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chkdsk constantly reports file and/or MFT corruption, but it only ever affects VSS
I'm having the strangest issue with chkdsk constantly reporting errors on a Windows 10 system, but there are almost no user-facing problems. The only thing it ever seems to cause an issue with is VSS ...
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volume shadow copy, used space by folder
When creating a volume shadow copy of a drive, e.g. by calling wmic shadowcopy call create Volume=c:\, a snapshot of all files is stored in the "System Volume Information" folder.
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How much space a file takes into a VSS?
Inside a VSS (Shadow Copy on a Microsoft OS) a file takes space according to data changes since the VSS was done (this is simplified, for example not true if a later VSS was done).
If I understand ...
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Are VSS snapshots still created automatically in Windows 8 and later?
I've read conflicting information on this, so wanted to clarify the situation.
With Windows Vista/7, several third-party tools exist that can mount the contents of a Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) snapshot ...
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volume shadow copy won't stay disabled
· i disabled volume shadow copy from services > properties
· yet, it keeps auto-re-enabling
· i then re-named vssadmin.exe to vssad.exe from C:\Windows\System32\
· but this didn't stop shadow ...
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VSS Versions not Visible to Users Viewing Windows 10 SMB Share
Setup
I have a Windows 10 PC acting as a file server, with a single folder shared with all users of a Workgroup. The PC has been configured to backup the shared folder to a secondary HDD using VSS in ...
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wbadmin crashes via command line
I'm trying to take system backup on Windows 8.1 Pro (EFI system partition + C:\ drive). It works perfectly well via Control panel however such command in command prompt fails:
wbadmin start backup -...
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Series of 8 Ntfs type 134 Warnings in System Event Logs
I have a Windows 8.1 workstation on which I have begun, as of a few days ago, to see in the System Event Log a series of 8 type 134 Ntfs warning messages logged 1 minute 43 seconds after the start of ...
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