Re: Shadow copy filling hard drive, unable to turn off.

No, I haven't. I was concerned about using safe mode with a raid array,
never done that before.

"Giuseppe Nacci" wrote:

> BD wrote:
> > I am running Server 2003, with a raid array. I have about 160 GB on
> > my e: drive and it has filled up with 132 GB's of shadow copy files.
> > I was first alerted that something was wrong when I attempted to
> > remote desktop into the server and check on some apps. Remote
> > desktop didn't work. I verified that my remote desktop setup was
> > unchanged on both ends but couldn't find out what was happening. At
> > this point I checked the logs and found some issues related to disk
> > space.
> > Upon checking my e: drive, I found 132 GB's of used, yet unaccounted
> > for space, with only about 4 GB free. I finally found the files and
> > they were in the "system volume information" folder on the drive.
> > After further research on this folder I found that it holds the
> > backup information.
> > Every attempt to click on the tab for shadow copy on the properties
> > window of the e: drive freezes that window. Any attempt to go into
> > disk management is unsuccessful as well.
> > As you can see, the lack of available disk space is severely
> > hindering my ability to solve the problem of lack of available disk
> > space.
> > I have read through many posts both here and on other tech sites and
> > found some information on using the "vssadmin" command. Is this my
> > best bet, if so, can someone give me more specific switches/arguments
> > to use with this to either turn off the shadow copy or recover a
> > majority of the space?
> > Also, are there other things I should be looking at that might also be
> > causing these problems?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > BD
>
> Did you try to work in safe mode?
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> Giuseppe Nacci
> Microsoft Certified System Engineer
> Microsoft Certified Trainer
> Security Manager
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