Re: system volume information, can I move?

I will have to see if there are any more slots available for hard
drives. Server should not be finicky. It just got a RMA motherboard.
and then a few weeks later it had one of its two Xeon processors
replaced.

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:21:30 -0400, "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]"
<mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The System Volume Information folder contains more than just the shadow
copies:

Backup System Volume Information
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs/browse_thread/thread/64aebd81e71543be/fa03f63d54ff1a45?lnk=st&q=move+system+volume+information&rnum=6&hl=en#fa03f63d54ff1a45

You can't move the (very small) system information but you can change where
the shadow copies are created and stored. The problem is you have to wipe
out any existing shadow copies before you can specify the new location.
Then there's the problem of the USB 1.1 drive being so slow that during the
daily scheduled shadow copy creation, I'm thinking that it's going to take
up significant CPU time and slow the whole system down. I'm thinking
another (small) internal drive just for shadow copies might be the best
approach (but, again, you're going to lose the shadow copies you have now),
but that might be more than you want to take on with a finicky server.

--
Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Jim Behning SBS MVP" <jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:eniec35rqok504qr48651cd3kokrq7u8up@xxxxxxxxxx
I have about 11 gigs that would be great to reclaim. I think this
hidden folder is the shadow copy stuff. If I plug in a usb drive to my
USB1.1 port can I get the shadow copies to move over to that drive? It
sure would free up a lot of space. About 11 gigs in the system voume
information folder on a 30 gig partiton with only 6% free.

A USB 2 adapter would be nice but this account and server has been
somewhat finicky. Fixing things without downing the server would be
nice.

.

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