Hi I have a quick question - can you use Volume Shadow Copy Service snapshots on removable flash drives? I am making a data backup program that uses Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up drives. When I back up external hard drives setting up the VSS snapshot works well with drive type DRIVE_FIXED as returned by GetDriveType. When I try to back up a thumb drive setting up the VSS snapshot (specifically the AddToSnapshotSet function) fails with VSS_E_VOLUME_NOT_SUPPORTED ffffffff8004230c as reported by the VSS API functions. GetDriveType returns drive type DRIVE_REMOVABLE. All the drives are NTFS. Is it possible to use VSS snapshots to back up thumb drives? Do I have to enable it for the drive? Thanks!
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So I found out how to share folders using Virtual Box and running Windows 8.
I was wondering, if I save files or projects from Windows 8 to the shared folder on my Mac, will TimeMachine backup those files onto my external harddrive? The hard drive is of course formatted for Mac because of that whole debockel, but that is besides the point. Even though the files were made in Windows.
Also...My assumption is that I would not be able to access the files on my external formatted hard drive from Virtual Box running Windows 8. Is this true?
To my knowledge, you cannot access the files on a journaled formatted hard drive from Windows without extra software. If I understand you correctly, you are trying to backup files created in the Windows VM within your Time Machine backup hard drive?
I'm sure you have solved this by now, but you should consider backing up the VM itself. If the files on the Windows Machine are important you can leave them in a shared folder and have time machine back up that folder.
How can I use Hobocopy to copy data on Network? I am able to copy data on Local drive. But I want to copy that data on network drive.
Hobocopy is capable of copying data to a network connection, via either a mapped network drive or a UNC path. However, it cannot copy data from a network destination, because it relies on Volume Shadow Snapshots, which are a local-only feature of Windows.
I Formatted My D: dard drive partition and I installed Windows on it by mistake. I would have to Install window to C: drive and that was my mistake.
Is there anyway to get my old data of that was stored in D: drive before format.
Please Help me to do this..
Not without having a second hard disk, or a second computer to mount it to.
Also you would need to have data recovery software to do a complete recovery on something like this.
Basic instructions.
shutdown the computer, secure the drive.
Install another hard disk, format, install windows.
Lately I've been recommending getdataback by runtime.org, it's about $99. You most likely need the ntfs version. Install that, (You can test it without purchasing it but you cannot complete the recovery without installing a license)
shutdown the computer.
slave the old hard disk
change the bios settings, if the drive is not identified.
boot into windows run, get data back for ntfs.
choose formatted media
let it run for a few hours.
select the data you want back, save the recovery, install the license, complete the recovery.
it's as easy as that.
More importantly, stop using the computer as any download or use could destroy the data still sitting on the drive by overwriting the data.
Perforce is downloading files to the external hard-drive connected to my MacBookPro as writable ("777"). It's as if the "allwrite" option is set in my workspace, but it's not.
I thought Perforce was supposed to mark the files read-only until I check them out. Is there a setting somewhere I missed?
Rev. P4V/MACOSX104U/2009.2/236331
MacBookPro OSX 10.5.8
Is your external hard-drive formated as hfs+? If it's FAT32, it will be 777 anyway.
Have you checked if Windows thinks the files are read only after syncing with the Mac client?
Perforce does not like it when you access the same disk location from two different workspaces, nor the same workspace from two different hosts. This is because the server tracks the state of the files on the client; you're begging for your local store to lose synchronization with the depot.
What are you really trying to accomplish here?
I would recommend that you forget about FAT32; put your Windows workspace on an NTFS volume and your Mac workspace on an HFS+ volume. Submit & sync to share the data. Storage is cheap.
I admit this is not strictly a programming question, although I do use my WHS as a source repository server for home projects, and I'm guessing many other coders here do as well.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good backup solution for the non-fileshare portion of Windows Home Server? All the WHS backups I've seen handle the fileshares, but none of the system files or other administrative stuff on the box.
Thanks,
Andy
Windows Home Server is designed to not need a backup of the OS. If your system drive fails, install a new drive, and then boot the WHS OS setup disc and install the OS. It will find the data on the other drives and recreate all the shared folders. You do need to do some configuring once it is back up but that is pretty small compared to not having to back it up.
One good solution for backing up the home server itself is to attach an external drive, say via USB 2.0 or eSATA. For this to work, though, you need the supporting software like Norton Ghost or something similar installed on your WHS server.
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (aka WHS PP1) added a feature to perform backups of the WHS shared folders to an external drive -- as you mention, this feature is only intended to do the data side and not the OS.
If you have an HP MediaSmart server, you could try the method mentioned in Quick & Easy Windows Home Server Backup and Restore. The author said it worked for him, but of course, caveat emptor. This technique has you creating a disk-image for your backup, and using that to restore from in the Recovery Disk / Restore disk process.
If you want a faster way to recover your OS and you do not have a Media Smart server, you can also check out these instructions on how to use a USB flash drive for installing WHS, and merge in the instructions found above for restoring a disk image vis-à-vis the OS Recovery disk process.
WHS OS backup solved by running two copies of WHS each on its own computer in a virtual machine with each WHS backing up the other (running in a VM makes the WHS a file thus able to be backed up and restored by WHS).
iDrive is Great and free under 2 gigs