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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PureSync is great at syncing folders, but also offers useful features such as merging folders, deleting duplicates, downloading websites, and creating shadow copies and restore points. It even mounts ...

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 ...

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 ...

I rebuilt our main file server with Windows 2003 R2 x64 and set it to take shadow copies at the appropriate intervals.<BR><BR>A week or so later I noticed the RAM usage was very heavy with 1.5gb or so ...

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 ...