This post features solutions to fix the Event ID 8193, Volume Shadow Copy Service error. VSS or Volume Shadow Copy Service facilitates conversations between server ...

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 ...

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is an integral component of the Windows Operating System, which can facilitate the creation and management of shadow copies of the system that can be used for ...

Some of the most significant new features in .NET focus on simplifying user support. One especially resource-intensive support issue involves individual file restores. How often have you gotten a ...

Ever deleted a file or folder on a file server and didn't mean to? Yea, me neither. But if you did, what would you do about it? Maybe you'd break out the backup tape or perhaps perform the restore ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Volume Shadow Copy feature I wrote about last time is interesting enough (and quirky enough) that it seemed like a good idea to throw out a few more details. For starters, shadow copies are ...

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 ...

There are few things that take up as much system administrator time as restoring files that users accidentally deleted or otherwise misplaced. There are also few ...