Volume shadow copy in windows 2000 server

Still another limitation is that shadow copy backups are designed to restore one file at a time. Because of this, shadow copy backups are not suitable for restoring large numbers of files. These limitations do not mean that shadow copy backups are useless though. On the contrary. If a user needs to revert to a previous version of a file then a shadow copy backup will allow them to restore a previous version without involving you.

MSC command at the Run prompt. To do so, right click on the volume that you wish to enable VSS for and select the Properties command from the resulting shortcut menu.

Keep in mind that VSS can only be enabled at the volume level. You can not control VSS at the disk level or at the folder or share level. You could just click the Enable button to enable shadow copies on the selected volume, but I recommend clicking Settings instead.

This allows you to configure the shadow copy behavior. As you can see in Figure B, Windows automatically limits the amount of space that can be consumed by shadow copies although shadow copies require MB minimum.

You can tell Windows not to limit the space though. Besides, as disk space starts to run low, Windows will automatically delete older shadow copies to make room for new data. Another feature of the Settings dialog box is the schedule. By default, Windows schedules shadow copies to be made twice a day. When you are done setting up the configuration options, just click OK and then click Enable to enable VSS on the selected volume.

Enabling VSS is only half of the battle. The other thing that you must do is to configure your workstations so that they can access the shadow copy files. ESXi 4. Guest Operating System. Driver Type Used. Quiescing Type Used. Windows XP bit. Windows bit. Sync Driver. File-system consistent quiescing. Windows Vista or bit. Windows 7 or bit. VMware VSS component. Windows or bit. Application-consistent quiescing. Windows Server R2. For this to be available, several conditions must be met:.

Virtual machine must be running on ESXi 4. Shadow Copies are useful for recovering user files that were accidentally deleted or modified and should be used in conjunction with CAS Snapshots to provide a comprehensive data protection solution. You can enable Shadow Copies on all disks on your servers, but Shadow Copies are most useful for volumes that store user data, such as the data disks on a Windows file server that store user profile disks and network drives.

On each server you wish to protect using VSS, create an additional disk to hold the Shadow Copies, as per Microsoft's best practice to avoid performance issues. Select Configure Shadow Copies Click on the Volume you want to enable Shadow Copies for, then click Settings. Under Storage Area , change the location to the additional disk you created in the Prerequisite Steps section of this document. You can also change the size limit of the volume copies.

If this storage limit is reached, it will automatically delete the oldest copy.