LKBEN10613: How to reduce the hdd space for volume-shadowcopy and systemrestore

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LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 1 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Latest update: 05/10/2020 | Comment:

Symptom

You need more disk space.

Cause

none

Solution

- open an command prompt
- type "vssadmin list shadowstorage" to see the actual configuration
- to set the new size ffor example to 2GB type "vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=2GB"

All done

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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