The limitation in number of shadow copies per volume is set at 64. If you try to create any more shadow copies, you will encounter a VSS error. Also, when it hits the ...

When the shadow copy creation fails, it throws the VSS Error 0x80042326, The volume being reverted was lost during revert. This is a VSS writer time-out error that ...

Bill: We've just rolled out file servers running Windows Server 2003 and we want to use Volume Shadow Copy to help us with file restores. We want to know if there are any gotchas. Anon: I'm glad to ...

St. Bernard software has been one of my favorite software vendors for many years, ever since it became one of the first to offer the ability to back up open files. You know that problem, users who go ...

The Play ransomware group has developed two custom tools in .NET, namely Grixba and VSS Copying Tool, which it uses to improve the effectiveness of its cyberattacks. Microsoft says that some ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

I'm aware of using vssadmin to manipulate the volume shadow copy service, but where the heck did the GUI todo it go? Under Win2k3 it was stashed in the per-drive properties under "Shadow Copies", in ...

Does anyone know if there is a *NIX program that will create a point-in-time snapshot of a volume like Window's Volume Shadow Serivce? I understand that an admin account can copy any file, even if ...