Need help troubleshooting VSS

This is a test environment that I'm using to study for MCSA-2003.

I have an eval copy of Server 2003 - SP2 on one computer. On another
computer I'm running Virtual PC 2007 as the client (XP Pro SP2). Everything
works fine as far as AD, DNS, Shares, etc.

I have 2 hard drives in the server. On the C: volume I turned on Shadow
Copy and scheduled it to run every day at 11:00am. As I write this, that
was 50 minutes ago.
The Shadow Copy storage location is on the 2nd drive.
Under the Properties/Shadow Copies Tab, in the box for "Shadow Copies for
Selected Volume" is the copy that ran at 11:00am. But, when I open a shared
folder from my client PC, and click on the Previous Versions Tab, nothing is
there.

I see no errors in Event Viewer that would indicate a problem with VSS.

How do I troubleshoot this to find out why I have no Previous Versions?

Thanks

 

Never mind. I figured it out; none of the files had been changed. Once I
changed one, there was a Previous Version.



"JohnB" <jbrigan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> This is a test environment that I'm using to study for MCSA-2003.
>
> I have an eval copy of Server 2003 - SP2 on one computer. On another
> computer I'm running Virtual PC 2007 as the client (XP Pro SP2).
> Everything works fine as far as AD, DNS, Shares, etc.
>
> I have 2 hard drives in the server. On the C: volume I turned on Shadow
> Copy and scheduled it to run every day at 11:00am. As I write this, that
> was 50 minutes ago.
> The Shadow Copy storage location is on the 2nd drive.
> Under the Properties/Shadow Copies Tab, in the box for "Shadow Copies for
> Selected Volume" is the copy that ran at 11:00am. But, when I open a
> shared folder from my client PC, and click on the Previous Versions Tab,
> nothing is there.
>
> I see no errors in Event Viewer that would indicate a problem with VSS.
>
> How do I troubleshoot this to find out why I have no Previous Versions?
>
> Thanks
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

VSS

hi ,

kindly do the following

get the latest hotfix for VSS

run vssadmin list writers

kindly post the result

make an exclusion in your AV to not scan your VSS database



do you have any errors in eventviewer
thanks

Heathe

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Need help troubleshooting VSS

This is a test environment that I'm using to study for MCSA-2003.

I have an eval copy of Server 2003 - SP2 on one computer. On another
computer I'm running Virtual PC 2007 as the client (XP Pro SP2). Everything
works fine as far as AD, DNS, Shares, etc.

I have 2 hard drives in the server. On the C: volume I turned on Shadow
Copy and scheduled it to run every day at 11:00am. As I write this, that
was 50 minutes ago.
The Shadow Copy storage location is on the 2nd drive.
Under the Properties/Shadow Copies Tab, in the box for "Shadow Copies for
Selected Volume" is the copy that ran at 11:00am. But, when I open a shared
folder from my client PC, and click on the Previous Versions Tab, nothing is
there.

I see no errors in Event Viewer that would indicate a problem with VSS.

How do I troubleshoot this to find out why I have no Previous Versions?

Thanks

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