[AccessD] Microsoft Volume Copy Service

[Rocky Smolin]

Jamess:

Thanks for your reply.

Since I'm retired now (except for the occasional quickie job from a legacy
client), my computing life is very simple. The backup thing I always had
covered, being an indie developer, so redundant backup was always my rule.
Even going so far as to store a copy off site (my home). Everything that's
on my Google Drive I also have on an EHD. So I feel pretty secure with that.

>From what I was able to determine from the web (not much) I don't really
need this shadow backup. First of all I can't see how to set the properties
for the target of the backup, define which files or folders or volumes are
to be backed up, or any other property.  And the shadow copy service is
still taking 35% of the CPU this morning. But what it's doing and where it
is doing that is a mystery. And it is (apparently, not sure) making
incremental backups which I 've always been wary of since a
restore requires a lot of backup files.

If I turn it off I would like to delete all the files it has created, but
I'm at a loss to know where they are and what they're named.







On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM James Button via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> Not used that facility -
> But the earlier "image" facility had the major flaws -
> Starting with the automatic update of the image with modified files
> during your
> working day -
> So any files that had lost needed data, been corrupted, or encrypted would
> replace the "recovery ones".
> Also the file history facility did not create entries of files with
> fullnames of
> over 230 characters  - or, depending on your login id and the system name,
> a lot
> less characters.
>
> There is also the 400 character fullname limit within OneDrive, as well as
> the
> "not doing that file" and "not telling you"
> About files with set character strings in the fullname.
>
> What I found was needed was a volume restore facility to create the needed
> partition sizes on a replacement drive ( storage device) so you could
> recover
> the partition setup in order to recover data  if the partition tables were
> corrupted, and to restore from a backup created by such as Easeus ToDo  -
> 4gb
> parts maybe encrypted as a set, or using a BitLocker type facility  - and
> upload
> them to cloud as a safe store in case of losing all the IT @ home !
>
> And - re Google Drive - nice facility - but what if the account gets lost,
> or
> hacked with a new password set, or you lose comms access !
>
> Also - if storing stuff from the phone onto a cloud store,
> Does access to the phone give access to all on the cloud storage -
> e.g. the phone remembers the access to all your cloud storage .
>
> JimB
>
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] Microsoft Volume Copy Service
>
> Dear Lists:
>
> Microsoft Volume Copy Service is running (W11) taking about 35% of CPU
> cycles. Do I need this?
>
> My personal data files (Client stuff, photos, docs, etc) are all backed up
> to my Google drive.
>
> MTIA
>
> r
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