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Have you seen this guide?<br><a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/de4fcc2a-8924-44ea-89ca-cc938aa14264/shadow-copies-for-a-single-folder?forum=winserver8setup" rel="ugc nofollow">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/de4fcc2a-8924-44ea-89ca-cc938aa14264/shadow-copies-for-a-single-folder?forum=winserver8setup</a><br>This is how on Windows Server 2012 (very similar on 2008 R2):<br><ol><li>Open up Computer Management and select Disk Management under Storage.</li><li>Right-click the Volume in which you'd like a folder with Shadow Copies.</li><li>Click Shrink Volume.</li><li>Select an amount to shrink that's big enough for your folder and small enough to leave enough for the original Volume.</li><li>Click Shrink.</li><li>Right-click the new unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.</li><li>Click Next twice.</li><li>Select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder and click Browse.</li><li>Select the Volume in which you'd like to place the folder.</li><li>Click New Folder and give it a name.</li><li>click OK and Next.</li><li>Name the Volume Label the same as your Folder name (makes it easier to administer) and click Next.</li><li>Click Finish.</li><li>In order for the restoring of previous files to work, you will need to assign this new volume a drive mapping as well.</li><li>Right-click the new Volume and click Change Drive Letter and Paths.</li><li>Click Add and choose a drive letter and click OK.</li><li>Close the Computer Management.</li><li>You can now share the folder on the original Volume.</li><li>Right-click the drive letter you chose for the folder Volume and select Configure Shadow Copies.</li><li>Enable Shadow Copies for the drive letter found in the list of volume.</li><li>Configure the settings as you like.</li><li>One important note is that in order to restore previous versions of a file, you need to do it from the drive letter; it doesn't work from the folder.</li></ol><br>
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"Hello There" - thanks for that. &nbsp;I did see that, and wasn't sure about it. &nbsp;let me take another look at it.<br><br>"Kevin" - thanks for your input. &nbsp;This will be used on a networked share for some of our users, but am looking to enable the shawing on the local drive OF that networked share - in other words, the "C drive" of the network server. &nbsp;And the reason for only doing a single vilume, is because they do warn that shadowing "takes up space" and I wouldn't want EVERYTHING being shadowed, when I only need the 1 folder. &nbsp;so I'm just seeing if this is possible, because I may as well be frugal. &nbsp;know what I mean?<br><br>anyway thanks&nbsp;
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Don't worry about being frugal. I set about 200 GB of shadow copy space for my branch file servers, which protects the OS and user documents for 10-50 users. That generally covers me for 64 copies. Being frugal here is increases chance of data loss.<br><br>You really need to put shadow copies on a volume other than the parent data. Add physical disks if you need to.
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Gotcha.&nbsp; Ok thanks Kevin
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Looks like the method for doing it with a single folder (shown above) has a caveat - you can only enable shadow copies for drives with a drive letter - which there appears you can't assign drive letters to mounted folders...atleast not from what i'm experiencing. &nbsp;I think I'm just going to have to go with enabling the entire drive. &nbsp;Thanks for your help guys.<br><br><br>
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Can you mount a local shared folder as a drive on a server? &nbsp;I am needing to enable shadow copies (version control) on a specific folder on my Windows 2016 Server, and do not want to have to enable that for the entire volume of the C drive - but just for single folder. &nbsp;Since shadow copies is only available for &quot;volumes only&quot;, I need to figure out how to mount my target folder as a separate &quot;volume&quot; on the machine. &nbsp;Possible to do?
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Can you mount a local shared folder as a drive on a server?  I am needing to enable shadow copies (version control) on a specific folder on my Windows 2016 Server, and do not want to have to enable that for the entire volume of the C drive - but just for single folder.  Since shadow copies is only available for "volumes only", I need to figure out how to mount my target folder as a separate "volume" on the machine.  Possible to do?

Can you mount a local shared folder as a drive on a server?

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