I have written a simple piece of code to try and copy the WebCacheV01.dat file from the Edge Browser, as the fille is locked I am using the VSS commands to do this. When I run the command manually, from an elevated prompt, it copies the database without any issue. [...] read more
IVssBackupComponents::InitializeForBackup failes with E_UNEXPECTED error. And in the Event viewer there are two errors: Error 1 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow [...] read more
I recently replaced my motherboard after the last one failed (was shorting and causing random reboots). I'm sure this was not healthy for the machine, and that a clean install would do wonders, but I'd like to fix the current install. That aside, I've been tracking down a pair of [...] read more
I am trying to backup a new Win10 install from an in place Win7 upgrade and getting error "Windows Backup Error 0x81000019, A shadow copy could not be created". * I have a Recovery partition with 8.5 GB free space and it is marked active. * I have "Microsoft Software [...] read more
Attempting to run ntdsutil from a C# executable and encountering an error. In case anyone is wondering, this is for a automated auditing process as part of a managed service provider - not trying to create a trojan/malware. The command is: ntdsutil "ac i ntds" "ifm" "create full c:\audit" q [...] read more
When working with VSS following problem arises. We create a persistent snapshot of disk volume (e.g. vshadow -p -script=snapshot.cmd f:). Creation is successful and snapshot is visible (vshadow -q). Then we restart the computer. After rebooting the snapshot is still visible, but it is not possible to perform the operation [...] read more
Environment: VM: Server 2008 Standard R2 with vCenter Server 4.1 installed running on VMware Workstation 7.1. I'm pretty confident I've done my homework on the required port settings that have to be opened up for this in windows firewall. 443, 902 The destination host is an ESXi 4.1 server which [...] read more