Indeed I am referring to previous versions, and I want to know if there is a
way that I can turn that off without turning off the system restore (like a
way to exclude directories from the Volume Shadow Copy). Or better yet if
there is a way for me to be able to access the "Previous Versions" without
having to upgrade to Ultimate (like installing a file like TWClient like the
XP machines did that were connected to a Windows 2003 Server).
Any Microsoft people watching this who know of a way to do either of the
above and to shed some light on all things pertaining to Volume Shadow Copy/
Previous Versions/
Thanks,
piook
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"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:46:02 -0400, Bert Kinney wrote:
>
> >Are you referring to Previous Versions?
> >http://bertk.mvps.org/html/shadow.html
>
> Yes he is.
>
> >piook wrote:
>
> >> Okay, when I first heard about Vista one of the things that I thought was
> >> really cool was that it would allow for a local version of Previous Versions
> >> (Volume Shadow Copy, or TimeWarp) that would allow a file that was accidently
> >> changed, deleted, or otherwise lost to be "returned" to a previous state.
>
> The same Shadow Copy engine powers both System Restore (which Vista
> changed the name of, for no good reason that I can see) and the new
> Previous Versions feature you refer to above.
>
> It's also involved in Backup, i.e. is what allows files to be backed
> up even though they are in use.
>
> >> Well over a year later I finally got a laptop with Vista Home Premium
> >> a couple months after that I screwed up a spreadsheet and I
> >> remembered the Volume Shadow Copy feature. So I start looking
> >> online as how to access this feature and find out that it is only
> >> available in Business Editions and up.
>
> That's MS for you - why would a home user (even a "premium" one) want
> to see their data again? Only business people make "real" data; home
> users just watch TV (media center), right?
>
> >> But then I found out that actually the Home versions of Vista do have Volume
> >> Shadow Copy, and they even make the same "snapshots" as Business do.
> >> But you just can't access these snapshots via "previous versions".
>
> Yup
>
> >> So now I am thinking... And I wonder why should I be dedication up to 15%
> >> percent of my hard drive to this if I can't access it. So the first thing I
> >> do is try and find out exactly how much room this is taking up on my system
> >> and find out that running VSSADMIN in an elevated command prompt can show me
> >> and I find that about 12% of my hard drive is being used by Volume Shadow
> >> Copy. So can I turn it off and get this back. Well yes, but then I throw out
> >> System Restore in the process. So that is out because I like to try things
> >> and explore the net, and System restore is my best friend in that regard. I
> >> also could go ahead and use VSSADMIN to resize the size of the volume shadow
> >> copy, but that reduces the number of system restores, and still leaves me
> >> with old copies of files that I cannot access.
>
> Yup. See Item #3 here...
>
> http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/blog/...ry?_c=BlogPart
>
> >> So is there any way I can either a access these files without upgrading
>
> No, though if you do upgrade (to Ultimate in your case, as there's no
> upgrade path from OEM Home * to Business) you may see all your
> previously hidden "previous versions" - including those made before
> the upgeade by the useless (data file) activities of Shadow Copy.
>
> And no, Shadow Copy is one lump - it's not possible to filter out
> "previous versions" traffic, nor is it possible to set different
> limits for SR and PV (see Item #2 in that URL).
>
>
>
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> Who is General Failure and
> why is he reading my disk?
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