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What's using up my disk space?

My Vista 64 installation has drive C, a 150 GB hard drive. I also has a 1.5 TB drive D. My C drive has 12.3 GB free. I don't know what's using up all the space. There's almost 83 GB unaccounted for!!! As per this question and this question, I…
ChrisInEdmonton
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Can't create shadow copy in command line

Hopefully someone can explain me what I'm doing wrong. I'd like to create a shadow copy from command line so I started one with administrative rights and enter this command: vssadmin create shadow /for=e: But everything I get is error: invalid…
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Is there a tool to copy a folder using shadow copy?

Is there a tool similar to Robocopy or TeraCopy that would do a "shadow copy" of a folder? I'm not sure if this is technically possible on Windows 7 but what I'd like to find a utility that, when I execute the "copy" command, would create a fixed…
Borek Bernard
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Create a Non-Persistent Shadow Copy for Backups on Windows 11 Pro?

I’ve set up a backup script in WSL to back up my Windows 11 Pro desktop to an external drive and Google Cloud Storage. However, WSL sees open Windows files as locked, causing backup issues. I think a good solution would be to create a non-persistent…
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How can I create a copy-on-write copy of a folder on Windows 10?

There's plenty of documentation on btrfs CoW, ZFS deduplication, and whatnot, but theoretically NTFS also has a CoW feature that Windows uses to give you the "previous versions" feature among other things. I'd like to know how to use this feature…
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FreeBSD password file

What would be FreeBSD password file equivalent of linux /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd? Is it the same? According to what I heard /etc/passwd exists in FreeBSD, but not sure in case of /etc/shadow.
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Windows Shadow Copy Backup and Restore

While answering another question I had to wonder: Does Vista/7's Backup and Restore Center or Windows Home Server's automated backups include the Shadow Copies/Previous Versions of files? It seems like it would be beneficial to include them but also…
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Free solution to backup folders to external SFTP server with shadow copy

I have an account in university on Linux machine with 10TB of free space accessible via SFTP. I would like to backup my Windows 7 x64 laptop to university. Currently I am using rsync+cygwin, but backup is pretty slow (without shadow copy) and I hate…
Sergiy Belozorov
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Using Windows Restore Previous Versions Yields Error Due To Access Rights

This seems like a which came first, chicken or the egg situation... I have a folder that I have been shadow coping for a while. This has been working great and restores have been a breeze when a user accidently delete something. Until…
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Strange, possible "shadow copy" issue where two editors show different contents

I have some code that is reading a config file, but when I open the file in TextPad, I see different values than my application does. I checked it with Notepad. Notepad agrees with my application, TextPad shows something else. This is on Vista x64…
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Samba shadow_copy2 snapshots not showing up in Windows Previous Versions?

I'm using Samba 4.5 with ZFS as a file share to a Windows 8.1 client. Samba itself is working and I've tested my smb.conf using testparm - it looks correct. The smbd log doesn't show any errors. But I'm not seeing any Previous Versions in the…
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Delete files from shared folder

I am trying to safely delete files from a shared folder hosted on the server. However the file doesn't move to the recycle bin when deleted because I'm not the owner. How do I force the file to be moved to recycle bin instead of being permanently…
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volume shadow copy always fails

Starting from last December, I cannot make any shadow copies. Everything which uses shadow copies, including Windows backup, System Restore and online disk check fails. My system is running Windows 8 Pro upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium, and my…
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How much space does volume shadowing take up?

So for example in a server environment I set up shadowing on volume N, how much space do I assign for it? Would a 1mb word document take up 1mb shadowing space on the volume?
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How to restore entire disk to a prior snapshot made using Shadow Copy using command line program?

I am trying to emulate software such as Faronics DeepFreeze using Win7's built-in Shadow Copy functionality. I am able to create snapshot of entire disk, and I can see that changes are tracked. Next, I am able to boot into Windows Recovery…
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