I have no idea what marketing is doing, but if you set that frequency I
guess it would. Although I don't use it myself, this feature has been
available in enterprise networks in the past, just not directly in the
client. Vista brings control of shadow copies to the user. Here is a link
for how shadows copies works for shared folders under Windows Server 2003:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
The equivalent information for Vista seems to still be scattered across MSDN
(mostly programming to leverage it).
"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Colin,
>
> This makes a little more sense, but raises a few more questions:
>
> 1. Why does the picture on the Microsoft link about previous copies show a
> file that has previous backups every minute? Does that mean shadow copy
> runs
> every minute?
>
> 2. Can you/should you set shadow copy to run more often then it does? My
> understanding is that you can force it to run by using the system restore,
> but this seems to defeat the purpose of protecting files from being over
> written.
>
> Any more ideas would be welcome.
>
> Jeff
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
>> The shadow copy is not made when you save the file. It is made according
>> to
>> a schedule.
>