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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.

Guest Jabez Gan [MVP]
Posted

Re: shadow copy question

 

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

"nikro" <nikrobo@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> 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.

Posted

RE: shadow copy question

 

what is the size limit for system volume information folder?

 

"nikro" wrote:

> 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.

>

Posted

Re: shadow copy question

 

On 6 Dic, 06:39, lukesh <luk...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> what is the size limit for system volume information folder?

 

where can i see that limit ?

if you meant the maximum size of shadow copies i put a 150Gbs limit

cheers

Posted

Re: shadow copy question

 

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

 

"nikro" wrote:

> On 6 Dic, 06:39, lukesh <luk...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > what is the size limit for system volume information folder?

>

> where can i see that limit ?

> if you meant the maximum size of shadow copies i put a 150Gbs limit

> cheers

>

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Posted

Re: shadow copy question

 

On 5 Dic, 10:45, "Jabez Gan [MVP]" <mingte...@blizNOSPAMhosting.com>

wrote:

> 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.

>

 

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!

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