Windows 10: Timing of Shadow Copy Deletions

Running Server 2003 R1. Shadow copies are enabled and set to use a maximum of 25GB. Instead of deleting incrementally, the copies build up to 25GB and then all of the copies are deleted at once. Is there a way to change this to an incremental deletion?

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Shadow copies are deleted automatically

Hi all,

I am using Windows 2008 R2 for file server function, and already configured shadow copy.

Issues: When size of shadow copy reach to maximum size (100GB in my case), all my previous shadow copies are deleted.

My understanding is it will delete oldest shadow copy first, until enough space to create new shadow copy.

Can anyone explain to me why all my shadow copies are deleted? (about 10 days)

Thank you,

 

Exclude folder(s) from Shadow Copy

Hi,
Is there any possible way to exclude certain folders from Shadow Copy? Like OneDrive folder?

Certain folders, such as OneDrive is not necessary to include and take up file size in Shadow Copy, if we are able to exclude this we would be able to go further back in time within folders we actually need to check previous versions on.

I've tried to add certain areas in the FilesNotToBackup & FilesNotToSnapshot in regedit, and found a note in the Documentation that it does not actually remove this from Shadow Copy. Is there other options here? Only suggestion i found somewhere was to make a script that lists all copies, mounts them and deletes the folders but this is not a viable option for us.

Hope to hear some solutions, thanks.

 

Windows Defender incorrectly reports threat in Volume Shadow Copy

I think you misread my question.

I did what you suggest immediately after I first downloaded the file.

The problem is NOT that the file itself gets flagged -- it does not as it is in the exclusions list.

The problem is that the exclusions list applies to the absolute path to the file.

What Windows Defender is complaining about is the COPY of the file that is present in the Volume Shadow Copy, NOT the original file.

There appears to be no way to tell Windows Defender to ignore the COPY of the file in the Volume Shadow Copy. Then, every time my backup program (Retrospect) runs, Windows Defender detects the file IN THE VOLUME SHADOW COPY and complains.