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Enable Volume Shadow Copy on Windows 2008 R2 Core Install

Looking for specific steps to enable VSS snapshots on a Windows 2008 R2 Core Standard install.

Looked for the answer and found some things but nothing with the full list of steps.

C - just the os
E - Company and User folders which are shared. These are the files I am looking to have shadow copy work for.

I want to have snapshots at 9:30am, 12:30pm, 2pm, and 7pm.

Thanks,
Mark

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Adam Brown

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Adam Brown

VSSAdmin is the command line control for Volume Shadow copy, but it is only capable of stopping copies, restoring data, and a few other things. You can't do much with it, because it's designed to shadow the whole Volume. Not just specific parts of it.

Shreedhar Ette

Hi,

Refer this article:
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Volume_Shadow_Copy_on_Windows_Server_2008

Hope this helps,
Shree

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shreedhar - That link was the easiest and let me configure via command line. No sure how to schedule , do I just setup scheduled tasks?
"vssadmin create shadow /for=e:"

Also will it automatically delete the oldest when it gets to the max size?

Thanks,
Mark

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acbrown2010,

Thanks. I disabled the firewall on core and still couldn't connect via Server Manager, but via computer management I was able to connect and configure the task.

Now I am setup.

Thanks everyone.