The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is an integral component of the Windows Operating System, which can facilitate the creation and management of shadow copies of the system that can be used for ...

We noticed that the shadow copy backup was failing, and upon investigating, we stumbled upon an Event Log that says the shadow copies of volume C: were deleted with ...

St. Bernard software has been one of my favorite software vendors for many years, ever since it became one of the first to offer the ability to back up open files. You know that problem, users who go ...

Microsoft 365 experienced a minor outage with login and service issues reported across multiple regions, while Windows 11’s April update continues to cause failures in popular third-party backup apps ...

Microsoft says that some applications might fail to backup data using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) after applying the June 2022 Patch Tuesday Windows updates. The issue occurs due to security ...

I'm aware of using vssadmin to manipulate the volume shadow copy service, but where the heck did the GUI todo it go? Under Win2k3 it was stashed in the per-drive properties under "Shadow Copies", in ...

Windows 2003 Server introduced a cool feature called “Shadow Copies of Shared Folders,” which is also available in Server 2008. In a nutshell, this feature (also known as the Volume Shadowcopy Service ...