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How to backup Volume Shadow Copy

I backing up at the moment ten days to a tape drive and because I cannot see the volume shadow copy files, I cannot choose to just backing up the last day of the backups.

How can I backup just the last day? Because every day Im backing up to tape drive 10 days of data instead of just backing up the last day.

Is there any way in Windows Server 2008 R2 to do that?
Thanks very much,
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You can't backup shadow copies - shadow copies are block level changes in files, not complete files.  The idea behind Shadow Copies is to reduce the times you need to go to tape by allowing you to recover recent versions of files and folders.
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so the question is.. the volume will grow till the end of its capacity or what? I dont really get it.
Depends, what did you set the copies to do?  By default, I think it uses 10% of the disk.
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And can you restore a volume shadow copy if you loose the drive but you have a backup of that drive?
And also, is there any way to use volume shadow copy to restore AD?

Thanks a mil
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