I have ~400gb of shadow copies that I can't delete on a 2008r2 server. Steps taken so far:
Disabled all shadow copies in the GUI, 459GB still shown as in use.
Ran vssadmin list shadowstorage
, got:
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 447.245 GB (24%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 449.058 GB (24%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 250 GB (13%)
Ran vssadmin delete shadows /all
, got:
Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context.
Try removing them with the backup application which created them.
Ran diskshadow
, delete shadows all
shadow copies are no longer listed in VSSadmin or diskshadow, however they are still present as files with a GUID filename in c:\system volume information
, and taking up space.
- Can I safely delete these files?
- How can I take ownership of them to delete them, as most I keep getting access denied.