backupvolume-shadow-copywindows 8
I can't find the Previous Versions tab that used to be available, and I see that there is now the new File History thing, but it only appears to back up libraries. But I want it for all of my folders. Is there any way to do this on Windows 8?
Volume Shadow Copy could be hit-or-miss, but if you allocated a lot of space to it (as I did), it seemed to be quite reliable.
Try using DropBox is mostly a service of online storage, but it keeps snapshots of every saved change in your Dropbox folder over the last 30 days.
More info here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/11
Show your actual VSS-Storage-limitations with vssadmin list shadowstorage.
Resize it with vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=C: /on=C: /maxsize=10GB
For Maxsize you can use percentage (/maxsize=3%), unlimited (/maxsize=UNBOUNDED) or MB/GB (/maxsize=10GB).
Edit: you must at least specify 300MB for shadowstorage.
Update:
I think I found something that should work. According to this Blogpost you can stop the VSS-Service and configure it to start manually. That should prevent the System from doing Shadow-Copies. If you want to restore or create a System-Restore-Point, the service will be started automatically.
However Windows 7 creates System-Restore-Points periodically. If you don't want Windows to do this, you can modify the scheduled task like described on How-To Geek.
I hope that helps. Let me know if you've additional questions.
Best Answer
I could be going out on a limb here but I think shadow copy is alive and well! Microsoft removed all the GUI's that's all.
In power shell:
Now check with
mount what you see after "
Shadow Copy Volume:"Note: you need to add a trailing slash after the address as shown, took me forever to figure it.
Whats even more interesting is
vssadmin list shadowsshowsAttributes: Persistentand every thing on the internet makes out you can only make volatile shadow copies?? Tell me if I'm interpreting this wrong folks!