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Server 2008 Shadow Copy not working to antoher volume

I just installed Server 2008 64-bit. I'm getting an error trying to setup Shadow Copies of volume D (450GB) to save them to voluume S (260GB). I get popup error titled "Shadow Copies", "Failed to create the storage area association". There are no errors in the event log to say anything about the popup error.
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Hello,

is this S volume local disk or is it a SAN or something like that? Is it basic disk or dynamic?
Martin
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S is a volume on the local disk. I just converted it to Dynanmic but getting same error.
Thanks for updating.
I think you have some existing shadow copies on current drive and that's why you can't move them to another volume.
Try this:
Disable Shadow Copies on the D drive and delete the shadow copies using the command "vssadmin delete shadows".
Now you can try to configure it the way you want.

HTH
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I tried it and got this result:
D:\>vssadmin delete shadows /all
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Servic
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No items found that satisfy the query.

I then listed the shadow copies and tried to delete by shadowID and got this result:

D:\>vssadmin list shadows
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {1ba1c0c3-4ba2-4a13-af16-0457d78432f4}
   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 22/04/2009 10:36:33 PM
      Shadow Copy ID: {6cdd867d-be52-4a99-a4a2-caa412f66077}
         Original Volume: (D:)\\?\Volume{25947a43-f4ee-11dd-8f94-001b212ca377}
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2
         Originating Machine: CAGS01.cags.local
         Service Machine: CAGS01.cags.local
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
         Type: ApplicationRollback
         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, Differential

Contents of shadow copy set ID: {bf587d04-c6f0-436c-aa5d-a861433cb930}
   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 22/04/2009 10:47:53 PM
      Shadow Copy ID: {a3485727-37bb-4b0c-83f4-68b15e1e8391}
         Original Volume: (Z:)\\?\Volume{308ced39-2b73-11de-a9a0-001e58ab10b4}
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy21
         Originating Machine: CAGS01.cags.local
         Service Machine: CAGS01.cags.local
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
         Type: DataVolumeRollback
         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, No writers, Differential


D:\>vssadmin delete shadows /shadow={1ba1c0c3-4ba2-4a13-af16-0457d78432f4}
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Do you really want to delete 1 shadow copies (Y/N): [N]? y

Error: Shadow Copy ID: {1ba1c0c3-4ba2-4a13-af16-0457d78432f4} not found.


D:\>vssadmin delete shadows /shadow={a3485727-37bb-4b0c-83f4-68b15e1e8391}
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Do you really want to delete 1 shadow copies (Y/N): [N]? y

Error: Shadow Copy ID: {a3485727-37bb-4b0c-83f4-68b15e1e8391} not found.
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Hey, that worked! The min you can set it to is 300mb. I set it to this and then chose the S drive. I then increaed the min to use up to 50gb. Thanks!
Great, thanks for the points:-)
Martin
This helped! Thanks!