I recovered my drive D with a shadow copy of November 2011 by accident, now all my files all users at our company created are gone and there is no single external backup. Can I recover the files with some file recovery tool or is it gone forever? Best, Elmira Answer I assume you want … Read more
After finding out about diskshadow, I wanted to install it the systems I backup, there aren’t issues with windows 2008 server, but I can’t find the program in windows 8 (it’s a pro version) On microsoft’s site it specifies windows 8 as a target technet.microsoft.com with a quote like Applies To: Windows 8, Windows Server … Read more
I have a 2008R2 and 2012 servers that has been in production for quite some time, running smoothly – I have never paid attention to VSS. Various volumes with Shares are setup to capture shadows copies – every hours every day. The storage area is set to unlimited (300GB). VSS captures shadow copies accordingly as … Read more
I have a client who performs file system snapshot-level backups using a tool which works with VSS, to backup everything, including his Exchange server. Is it possible to use this backup method to restore individual mailboxes from the backed up data? E.g. by using some external tool? Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : … Read more
We use Azure to backup some of our servers. We had 2 servers backing up successfully and tonight had to switch the Azure account they were backing up to – pretty straight forward. Now the backup services are re-linked; one server is working totally fine and the other is presenting issues. The backup service fails … Read more
I am backing up an Exchange Server database to a backup volume on Windows Server 2012 R2, using Windows Server Backup. I mostly followed the tutorial shown at http://exchangeserverpro.com/backup-exchange-server-2013-databases-using-windows-server-backup/ I hope to backup data, and also remove old Exchange log files. The backup is successful, but the log files are not being removed/truncated. Exchange does … Read more
I’ve got a Server 2012 R2 VM running as an SMB file host (VHDx on Host side.) Recently, I noticed that both the system disk and the data disk have duplicates showing in “My PC”: I: is a clone of C:, and J: is a clone of D:. They both appear to be some kind … Read more
I’m having trouble with VSS based backups of my Exchange server. I’m getting the following error on the start of the backup: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied. . This is often caused by incorrect security settings in either the writer or requestor … Read more
In Samba4, is there any feature like VSS for SMB file shares in Windows Server? I see that the Previous Version tab exists under Properties in the context menu on the client side, but I don’t know how to turn it on at the server side. Answer You need to configure a vfs module: vfs_shadow_copy2. … Read more
Has anyone found a way to take a EBS snapshot for a Windows Server that maintains Application Consistency? In my case it’s with SQL and I’d like to maintain SQL app consistency. Either via quiescing the DB directly (as you can do on oracle alter database begin backup, ec2-create-snapshot vol-abcd1234, alter database end backup) or … Read more
