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Volume Shadow Copy Service

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While investigating a malware infection in a Windows Server 2012 R2, I noticed the malicious file sits in c:\Windows\Vss\Logs\WsmRes64.dll. The problem is that I can't cd c:\Windows\Vss\Logs, and the ...
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Getting an odd result when listing backups on a domain controller ("TSTSRV001") in WBADMIN. The following command to list the backups on a specific disk shows two "machines", which ...
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I'm getting VSS errors when running Veeam backups at night. The reason appears to be that something is forcing the Volume Shadow Copy service to keep running, i.e. something is using it. It keeps ...
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I'm setting up Ubuntu server with Samba. The file system is BTRFS and I can't seem to get Windows to see the previous versions from the snapshots. My smb.conf has this for the share: [Backup] path ...
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On all versions of Windows Server from 2012R2 onward, we are seeing System Volume Information folders, especially on server C: drives but also others, often filling up with hundreds of gigabytes of ...
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I'm seeing a rather large number of machines lately with System Volume Information folders ranging from large (50G) to huge (350G), on both desktops (Windows 10, various builds) and servers (2012R2, ...
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Can one use Windows Server VSS in a two-way configuration? VSS from Volume A to Volume B is a "normal" mode of operation. But, can one do, at the same time, VSS from Volume B to Volume A? ...
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I am experiencing loss of shadow copies, and this is accompanied by eventId 25: Log Name: System Source: Volsnap Date: 8/27/2020 6:41:11 PM Event ID: 25 Task Category: None ...
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On my windows server 2016 I userd disk2vhd for backups, but for some reason last backups that disk2vhd created in last time was invalid. Disks works ok and whole system too. So I want to make backups ...
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I have a 2016 server with 2 volumes C and M and would like to set up VSS to a SEPARATE dedicated disk. Is it possible to point both volumes (C & M) VSS configurations to use this SAME dedicated ...
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I have a Windows 2016 server I'd like to set up Volume Shadow Service (VSS). Is it still recommended that I have a separate physical disk? The setup dialog itself seems to state this as you see in ...
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I would like to take a snapshot of my SQL server that is running in GCP prior to applying patches. What is the suggested safe way of doing so? Coming from VMware world, I always omitted memory from ...
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We have a customer with a Windows Server 2016 domain controller. It's a small business so their server infrastructure consists of a Hyper-V host and this DC. The DC hosts file shares and Azure AD ...
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We have a campus with 2 different building with few floors on each building and 100's of systems in different VLANS at each floor. At the Access layer we have Layer 2 switches at each floor connecting ...
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After a reboot we encounter while the first backup (wbadmin) on a Windows Server 2016 these errors in the eventlog: Source: SPP Event ID 16389 Details: The writer's timeout expired between the Freeze ...

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