When the Volume Shadow Copy Service is not working on your Windows computer, you may encounter different types of error messages. VSS is a crucial component of the ...

This post explains how to fix error code 0x80042313, The shadow copy provider timed out while flushing data to the volume being shadow copied. A few Windows users ...

St. Bernard software has been one of my favorite software vendors for many years, ever since it became one of the first to offer the ability to back up open files. You know that problem, users who go ...

I'm aware of using vssadmin to manipulate the volume shadow copy service, but where the heck did the GUI todo it go? Under Win2k3 it was stashed in the per-drive properties under "Shadow Copies", in ...

The Volume Shadow Copy feature I wrote about last time is interesting enough (and quirky enough) that it seemed like a good idea to throw out a few more details. For starters, shadow copies are ...