SQL Server Backups using Volume Shadow Copy 10 Many well-known backup utilities for Windows use the Volume Shadow Copy Service built in to newer versions of windows to create a point-in-time snapshot of the disk in order to safely back up open files But how well does this mechanism play with SQL Server?
How to use a Volume Shadow Copy to make backups The plan is to create a shadow copy of a quite large, I O-heavy volume It's 350GB, containing a filesystem-based fulltext index organized in hundreds of folders and hundred-thousands of tiny files
Windows 2008 R2 - shadow copy management and retention 3 - 1st day of the month at 9am starting on 6 11 13 The Use limit for that volume's shadow copies is 25,599MB (25GB) The volume is 250GB and has 44GB of free space Going backwards from today I show all the correct times schedules for shadow copies back until 7 29 13 It doesn't go back further, and there isn't a 7 1 13 monthly copy
VSS - The semaphore timeout period has expired - Server Fault On a Server 2016 box Windows Backup fails with The backup operation that started at '2016-12-23T02:00:13 001000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a
windows server 2008 - Volume Shadow Copy Remotely? - Server Fault I'm currently running a Microsoft Server 2008 R2 box and want to utilize Volume Shadow Copy but my development machine doesn't have enough hard drive space for 30 days worth of copies, which is wha