Windows Server - shadow copy question

Asked By nikro

06-Dec-07 01:58 AM

good morning,
i have enabled on a win 2003 sbs server the 'shadow copies' of shared
folders since the end of september.
When i right click on the volume where shadow copies are enabled, in
the shadow copy configuration, i can only see the last two copies of
the volume (i leaved the default settings : 7am and 12am every weekday
for shadow copies).
I read I can have as long as 64 shadow copy of the same modified file,
and that's what i want: being able to track and retrive an old
versioned file that a user overwrited, but at the moment i can only
see 1 old version of the file and nothing more.
Thanks in advance for your attention and help.

05-Dec-07 04:45 AM

I had the same issue but mine is dued ot a high load of IO on the hard disk
thus shadow copies only gives a few copies of files (instead of 64).

What I would suggest is to ensure you have the data files on a hard disk
which is not shared by the System drive.

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Jabez Gan
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - File Storage

06-Dec-07 12:39 AM

what is the size limit for system volume information folder?

08-Dec-07 12:21 PM

where can i see that limit ?
if you meant the maximum size of shadow copies i put a 150Gbs limit
cheers

10-Dec-07 08:24 AM

Installing KB940349 may do it. However, i would be interested in knowing:
1. are there any volsnap or vss related errors?
2. Did it ever work?
3. If it worked earlier, what changes did u make?

Lukesh

22-Dec-07 12:16 PM

hi,
i've done what u said, moved the data files on a different partition
rather than the OS partition ,
and now i can see more shadow copies
thnx!