Shadowcopy

For those of you who have done shadowcopy based backups of servers, you know good and well that sometimes the mere space required for the VSS (Volume Shadowcopy Service) can make things pretty difficult when you come down to the wire on disk space. VSSAdmin is a great tool to see where your servers stand with the volumes used by the shadowcopy service, what shadows are available, and what's in use. Here are the commands for VSSAdmin. Remember: Use an elevated command prompt for all of the … [Read more...] about Diskshadow, VSSAdmin’s best friend