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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the VSSADMIN tool is fine for administering shadow copies, you may want more capabilities, especially if you want to automate some shadow copy activities in a script. The VSHADOW tool might be ...

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 ...

A new ransomware vaccine program has been created that terminates processes that try to delete volume shadow copies using Microsoft's vssadmin.exe program, Every day, Windows will create backups of ...

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 has been taking plenty of heat in InfoWorld, but it does have some redeeming features, including ReadyBoost and shadow copies. Windows Vista has been taking plenty of heat in InfoWorld, ...

Microsoft says that some applications might fail to backup data using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) after applying the June 2022 Patch Tuesday Windows updates. The issue occurs due to security ...

A backup and restore function in Windows that creates copies of files (see VSS). The Mac includes its own backup capability (see Time Machine). THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...