While the feature does eat up quite a bit of disk space, it's definitely worth it for those with demanding end users. There have always been things about the world of IT that have been frustrating to ...

In today’s post, we will explore the cause and then provide possible remediations for the issue of usability limit for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) errors 0x0000007E, 0x80042306, 0x80070057 in ...

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 ...

Windows 2003 Server introduced a cool feature called “Shadow Copies of Shared Folders,” which is also available in Server 2008. In a nutshell, this feature (also known as the Volume Shadowcopy Service ...

Bill: We've just rolled out file servers running Windows Server 2003 and we want to use Volume Shadow Copy to help us with file restores. We want to know if there are any gotchas. Anon: I'm glad to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows Vista only: Shadow Copies, an automated file version saver built into all copies of Windows Vista (and enabled by default), isn't a complete backup solution, but it could be a life-saver in ...

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 ...