Windows 10: Will deleting a large VSS orphan file {3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} impact anything?

We have a drives on a Server 2019 OS setup for shadow copy. Recently we got an alert that the drive was full. I took a look and saw a 100GB file with the name {3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} in the System Volume Information folder. I did some reading into this and found out that this is an orphan file. I'm wondering if deleting this file from the System Volume Information folder will screw up all the shadow copy backups that are currently on that drive?

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Will deleting a large VSS orphan file {3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} impact anything?

We have a drives on a Server 2019 OS setup for shadow copy. Recently we got an alert that the drive was full. I took a look and saw a 100GB file with the name {3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} in the System Volume Information folder. I did some reading into this and found out that this is an orphan file. I'm wondering if deleting this file from the System Volume Information folder will screw up all the shadow copy backups that are currently on that drive?

 

Having problems with System Volume Information, It getting large

You need to turn of System Restore, at least temporarily. If necessary you can then manually delete any left-over files that look like this:

Code:

{06e4cee8-5ab4-11e8-8fb7-3065ec8e3cbd}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

{4eecbebe-61d0-11e8-8fb9-3065ec8e3cbd}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

{7faec6a2-6775-11e8-8fb9-3065ec8e3cbd}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

{7faed99e-6775-11e8-8fb9-3065ec8e3cbd}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

{8c50050f-650a-11e8-8fb9-3065ec8e3cbd}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

{8dce4369-5ed5-11e8-8fb9-3065ec8e3cbd}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

 

Unable to delete files

Hi,

I have been trying to delete the below files, but were not at all successful.

C:\>cd "System Volume Information"

C:\System Volume Information>attrib

A SH C:\System Volume Information\tracking.log

A SH C:\System Volume Information\{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

A SH C:\System Volume Information\{8461a81b-9bf5-11e5-be92-b888e31d23e7}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

A SH C:\System Volume Information\{8461aa13-9bf5-11e5-be92-b888e31d23e7}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}

C:\System Volume Information>

icacls gives the below 'access denied' error.

C:\System Volume Information>icacls "{8461a81b-9bf5-11e5-be92-b888e31d23e7}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}"

{8461a81b-9bf5-11e5-be92-b888e31d23e7}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}: Access is denied.

Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

C:\System Volume Information>

The main issue is, these files are of very huge size, consuming a large portion of system partition for no use. And when I tries to take a Windows Image backup these files are creating huge troubles, and the destination disk size also requires further more
size.

Can some one suggest me a solution for these issues?

Screenshot attached. Also, the volume shadow copy service and windows restore services (under advanced protection) is already stopped. But still unable to delete these files.





Thanks,

Rajesh