Questions tagged [vss]
Volume Shadow Copy Service
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On Windows: is it safe to do a robocopy in order to clone the system?
Let me start by giving a bit of a background. On Linux systems, I frequently rely on the fact that as long as I can get all files over from one hard drive to another, and as long as I fix up the boot ...
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Unable to restore from Shadow Copy due to long filename
We have shadow copy enabled on our Windows SBS 2008 server. Attempting to restore a file from shadow copy gave the following error-
The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file ...
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How to enable volume shadow copy using Powershell?
How to enable volume shadow copy on specific drive (D:, E:,...) and set up schedule using Powershell ?
I just need some hints how to start.
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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 ...
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SQL Server Backups using Volume Shadow Copy
Many well-known backup utilities for Windows use the Volume Shadow Copy Service built in to newer versions of windows to create a point-in-time snapshot of the disk in order to safely back up open ...
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Hyperv-V creates mystery .avhdx files and fills up disk space
I have windows server 2016. Also i have Hyper-V role on my server. Every day in 5:36 i have error, that disk full and my virtual machine is stopping. In Hyper-V logs:
ProviderName: Microsoft-...
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Does DFSR replicate shadow copies?
There a a few questions related to using DFSR and Shadow Copies together, but none that indicates if Shadow Copies replicate or not. Meaning, if I have a a pair of DFS replicas with Shadow Copies on ...
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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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Linux equivalent for Windows shadow copies
In Linux is there an equivalent for Windows shadow copies? I would like to use this for a small setup nothing big but it would be nice to have some type of functionality like shadow copies.
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Command line backup of running Hyper-V images using Volume Shadow Copies (VSS) and Diskshadow.exe
I need to backup running Hyper-V virtual machines with minimal downtime via a command prompt. Backups should be stored on another local disk or remote share.
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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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Which user should a backup service run as?
I'm working on an application which uses Volume Shadow Copy Service to backup a particular file at regular intervals. This works when run as admin but when I run the service under the "Network Service"...
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SQL Server Database Backups using VSS versus native SQL Server
We are currently considering using Dell's EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition (ASM/ME) to backup our SQL Server databases. However, I am extremely skeptical of this, as ASM/ME uses ...
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How to fix system state backup error and NTDS VSS (error: 0x800423f4) state [11]?
The SBS 2011 (Exchange is at SP1) Windows 2008 R2 suddenly stopped making backups with error
Backup unsuccessful. A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Unknown error (0x800423f4).
When ...
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Windows Server Backup Fails: There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy...
We have a brand new Dell PowerEdge T320 with a PERC S110 RAID Controller running a fresh install of Windows Server 2012 R2. The RAID level is RAID 5 with two NTFS partitions, 1TB for the OS and 7TB ...
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Previous versions not available on file server share. But vss seems to be working
At my workplace we inherited a file server running Windows 2008 R2. (Core server unfortunatly, so no GUI)
Last year we decided it would be nice to have previous versions of files available for users. ...
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What is needed for 'Previous Versions' to be visible on the client OS?
I have servers with Shadow Copies enabled taking snapshots a couple times a day. From the server, if you look at the local devices you can see the Previous Versions being populated reliably. But ...
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Windows: making a system backup with vshadow+robocopy tools
For years, I have used vshadow + robocopy to backup data partitions to a remote iSCSI volume. This has been a very efficient method.
This has allowed me to have a "perfect" copy. Open files are ...
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Application\CAPI2 Event 513 - Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object
A team member informed me that one of our Windows Server 2008 (not 2008 R2) based MSSQL Servers had begun to generate CAPI2 Event ID 513 Errors in the Application Event Log:
Application\CAPI2
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VSS does not truncate Exchange 2013 Logs on Server 2012
I have a single exchange 2013 server on Server 2012. It is being backed up by Veeam and Veeam is utilizing VSS in its operations.
The backups are actually working fine, but at the end of backups, ...
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Best way to backup MySQL database server running in Hyper-V
We are running a production MySQL v5.5 database server on a Windows 2008 R2 VM. We are currently just performing a daily mysqldump of the database, and then backing those up. Our backup solution (...
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Full-featured online backup providers for medium-sized enterprise? [closed]
I've been banging my head against the wall trying to find an online backup service that supports all of the following enterprisey features:
Full-system backup for Linux and Windows 2003/2008 servers, ...
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Windows 2012 Hyper-v backup
We upgraded a Hyper V from 2008 R2 to Windows 2012. Then we copied one VHD (copy/paste) from one 2008 R2 to this new 2012 machine. Everything works well, and we decided to use a out of the box 2012 ...
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server 2008 r2 - wbadmin systemstatebackup - system writer not found in the backup
I am trying to manually run a systemstatebackup command on my server 2008 r2 box and I am getting an error code '2155347997' when I view the backup event log details. The command line tells me that I ...
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Tidy up old Windows Server Backup snapshots
I'm running wbadmin from a scheduled job, backing up my C: and D: drives to my E: and (I believe!) including the system state:
wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:e: -include:c:,d: -allCritical -...
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What is VSS and what is it used for?
I'm pretty sure when SysAdmins talk about VSS they aren't talking about Visual Source Safe...
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Shadow Copy Deletion
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:
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VSS error 521 when attempting backup
I have backupassist and I attempt to run a backup, with VSS service running. However, I get this error in Windows Event Log:
The backup operation that started at
'2010-04-30T01:51:15....
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Windows 7: Access rights/group policy to prevent shadow copies from being deleted by user?
Is there a way to prevent shadow copies to be deleted by non-admin-users? The only thing I found right now were group policies which hide the tab in Windows explorer from the user (so that he can't ...
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Backing up my data causes my server to crash using Symantec Backup Exec 12, or How I Came to Loathe Irony
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Windows Server 2003. It is the primary file server for one of my clients. I have another server also running Windows Server 2003 that acts as the core media ...
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How to safely backup MySQL using VSS-based backup solutions
One of my clients is running MySQL on a Windows Server 2008 system. Their regular backups are performed using StorageCraft's ShadowCopy, which uses the VSS service to perform backups of open files.
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Is it necessary to back up the System Volume Information folder?
On a Windows Small Business Server 2011, I have redirected the shadow copies for all volumes to a single, dedicated volume. This volume contains no other data; the only folder is System Volume ...
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Move files to new server, preserving shadow copies
I'm moving all my files from a physical Windows 2008 server to a virtual one, and was wondering if there is any way to retain my existing "previous versions" shadow copy data.
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Hyper-V vss-writer not making current copies
I'm using diskshadow to backup live Hyper-V machines on a Windows 2008 server.
The backup consists of 3 scripts, the first will create the shadow copies and expose them, the second uses robocopy to ...
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Delete Shadow Copies Remotely
I currently use DISKSHADOW to remove shadow copies from our Hyper-V servers. To do this I have to log onto the server but psexec doesn't work.
psexec \\hyper-v-server diskshadow
DISKSHADOW> Error ...
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Server 2008 SP1 VSS Writers Not Responding
I've got a Windows Server 08 box on SP1 that is having some problems. We've experienced backup problems and I've traced it down to VSS Writers not responding. From the command line, if I type ...
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Exchange DiskShadow/Robocopy backup does not purge log files
I have a series of scripts setup to backup my Exchange. The following command is executed to start the process:
diskshadow /s C:\Backup_Scripts\exchangeserverbackupscript1.dsh
This is ...
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Disk imaging, active directory, and vss?
I am using a cloud hosting provider, which uses dedicated servers. They let you "image a disk" and then cancel the server. To image the disk, they use software which is similar to Clonezilla (no name ...
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VSS management on Windows
I often use the integrated VSS feature on Windows files servers, to allow users to restore themselve some files. This also allow IT team to do the job fast when few files are involved, which is the ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 VM Back up fails with Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data
This problem was first encountered on an IBM x3650 in a cluster with an IBM x3550 for failover, however this problem is reproducible on a server running HyperV not part of a cluster.
When I try to ...
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Is MySQL VSS "Safe" Yet?
From what I'm reading, there's plenty of statements that MySQL is at least partially VSS (Volume Snapshot Service) aware, with caveats etc. but all of the things I can find online regarding this are ...
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Set up DPM to use hardware VSS Provider with EMC Clariion SAN
We recently purchased an EMC Clariion AX4 SAN and we're using it to provide storage for our Hyper-V virtual machines. I've already got the servers registered with it and configured the failover ...
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VSS Copies from Network SMB/CIFS File Share on Mac OS X Client
We have a file share we want to roll out at work, and someone asked if there is a way OS X clients can see VSS copies on the network share they mount (to restate: a SMB/CIFS share on a server on the ...
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Where are diskshadow snapshots stored?
I am evaluating DISKSHADOW utility to take MSSQL database snapshots. I use the below
set context persistent
set option rollbackrecover txfrecover
set verbose on
begin backup
add volume d: alias ...
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Windows server backup keeps failing after upgraded my OS from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2
I've got 2 hard disks installed on the server, one of them is specifically for backup purpose. Everything is fine before I upgrade my OS to Windows Server 2012 R2...
And the problem is that after OS ...
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Windows Server Backup crashing
Environment: I'm running an HP DL165 G7, with Windows 2008 R2 x64.
Recently, when I perform a backup with "Windows Server Backup", it will crash the system. I run the backup over the weekend. When ...
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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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VSS writer NTDS State 11 failed and other writers state 5
We use Altaro VMBackup V7.0.20.3 to back up some VMs hosted on a single Hyper-V Host running Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the VMs running Windows Server 2008 gets the following error after the ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 System State backup
Running a member server 2008R2 server. Backups have been running fine for some time but recently ceased to run. We have been using CloudBerry Lab Enterprise Backup to store backups in cloud storage.
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SBS 2008 - VSS Backup
Errors:
Windows event Log -
Backup started at '5/5/2011 12:34:07 AM' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup volumes with following error code '2155348129'. Please rerun backup once ...
