Creating Previous version for my Windows 2012 R2 file server on different HDD ?
Hi All,
Can anyone here please share the steps and suggestion to create Previous Version of my file server on Windows Server 2012 R2 ?
Vmware
Windows Server 2012 R2
C:\ 40 GB
D:\ 1.99 TB NTFS file server department 1 - 75% full
E:\ 1.75 TB NTFS marketing department 90 % full
F:\ 2.0 TB Previous Version iSCSI NAS on Qnap
So how do I create the Previous version of the file server folders on those two drives on new HDD that is taking the Versioning of the file every 12 hours ?
Thanks.
Can anyone here please share the steps and suggestion to create Previous Version of my file server on Windows Server 2012 R2 ?
Vmware
Windows Server 2012 R2
C:\ 40 GB
D:\ 1.99 TB NTFS file server department 1 - 75% full
E:\ 1.75 TB NTFS marketing department 90 % full
F:\ 2.0 TB Previous Version iSCSI NAS on Qnap
So how do I create the Previous version of the file server folders on those two drives on new HDD that is taking the Versioning of the file every 12 hours ?
Thanks.
Lee W, MVP
If you are referring to a volume shadow copy snapshot and storing it on a different drive, you CANNOT move EXISTING snapshots to the new drive. You CAN disable volume shadow copies for the drive, then reconfigure the copies to be put on another disk and then re-enable. But if ANY snapshots exist, you cannot change their location.
ASKER
Lee,
no, at the moment there is no feature where the user can retrieve their own "previous Version" of their files from the file server.
I wonder how to enable it and if it is possible to store these previous versions on another drive not the same as the main file drives.
no, at the moment there is no feature where the user can retrieve their own "previous Version" of their files from the file server.
I wonder how to enable it and if it is possible to store these previous versions on another drive not the same as the main file drives.
Enable it by right clicking on a drive and select Configure Shadow Copies - this feature has been around since Server 2003.
You can store them on any drive you wish PROVIDED it's seen by the operating system as a local drive (iSCSI, USB, SCSI, SAS, IDE, SATA should all work; network drives, NAS devices, floppy and USB thumb drives (with rare exceptions) won't work).
By default the volumes are stored on the drive for which they are enabled. You can configure them BEFORE enabling and put them on any local drive OR you can DELETE all existing copies (once enabled) and then configure them for a different drive. But understand, Shadow Copies are based on block changes, not FILE changes. Meaning if you have a 1 GB file and only change 10 bytes in it, then the shadow copy will only "copy" a small block of changes, noting where it was in the file, NOT the entire 1 GB file.
You can store them on any drive you wish PROVIDED it's seen by the operating system as a local drive (iSCSI, USB, SCSI, SAS, IDE, SATA should all work; network drives, NAS devices, floppy and USB thumb drives (with rare exceptions) won't work).
By default the volumes are stored on the drive for which they are enabled. You can configure them BEFORE enabling and put them on any local drive OR you can DELETE all existing copies (once enabled) and then configure them for a different drive. But understand, Shadow Copies are based on block changes, not FILE changes. Meaning if you have a 1 GB file and only change 10 bytes in it, then the shadow copy will only "copy" a small block of changes, noting where it was in the file, NOT the entire 1 GB file.
ASKER
Ok, so in this case it is possible to enable it and then store it in another drive presented to the file server.
I want to do the snapshot every 12 hours if that's possible for each drive.
Because I'm about to enable Windows Server 2012 R2 dedupe next month, I don't want the dedupe causing the VSS Previous version corruptions.
I want to do the snapshot every 12 hours if that's possible for each drive.
Because I'm about to enable Windows Server 2012 R2 dedupe next month, I don't want the dedupe causing the VSS Previous version corruptions.
Dedupe and VSS are compatible. There should be no problems. I've already given instructions for enabling and storing on another drive.
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So I assume the procedure can be executed during the business hours ?
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