BleepingComputer.com Says Disable Shadow Volume Copies Now!

Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by itman, Nov 8, 2015.

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  1. itman

    itman Registered Member

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    I believe if you use Windows Backup on WIN 7 (does anyone actual use it?), it uses vssadmin.exe. That feature was deprecated in WIN 8 which now uses the journal to determine file changes.

    There can be issues with Shadow Copies, so moving away from this seems like a good change. "One disturbing thing I did learn about Windows backup is that it uses NTFS Shadow Copies to keep prior versions. One (IMHO) extremely dangerous result of this is that if you ever connect your backup disk to a Windows XP system you'll loose all the prior versions, since XP's version of NTFS doesn't understand multiple shadow copies and so silently deletes everything except the most recent one. This raised all kinds of red flags for me since when I started with Windows 7 I was using the same backup drives to back up both it and my older XP system."
    http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/36344-63-backup-explanation-please
     
    itman, Nov 10, 2015
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    Sorry, you lost me ... but, I'm easily lost.....:argh:
     
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  3. Peter2150

    Peter2150 Global Moderator

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    I am saying with bother taking system restores and not using them. I'd turn it off, save the disk space and use a real disk imaging program like Macrium
     
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    Ah.... I'm back now. I hear ya'.
     
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  5. Rasheed187

    Rasheed187 Registered Member

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    Same over here, seems like a good solution. Same goes for bcedit.exe and bitsadmin.exe.
     
    Rasheed187, Nov 10, 2015
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