VSS Not Creating Shadow Set
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Published on 2009-08-03T18:49:27Z
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I'm trying to setup backup scripts on WinXP to use Volume Shadow Sets. I downloaded the VSS 7.2 SDK from MSFT, and used the include vshadow.exe
to create a shadow set:
vshadow -script=vss-setvar.cmd f:
(note that I've tried both f: and c:)
vshadow
executes just find, giving no errors, reporting the shadow is created. However, executing
vshadow -q
as the very next command results in "There are no shadows on the system" and, indeed, if I use dosdev
to try and map the Shadow set named in vss-setvar.cmd
, it will not work.
Am I missing a step?
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