I looked up the clean up tool and it doesn't say anything about removing shadow copies. I'll check it out anyways and see what happens.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 11:36 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] delete vss shadow copy in XP? Oh, thats right! On XP you have to use the System Cleanup tool. -- Espi On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We'll vssadmin delete shadows is not a valid command.... The delete option apparently isn't even available. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 9:36 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] delete vss shadow copy in XP? Are you using the following syntax? VSSADMIN Delete Shadows /Shadow={%ShadowCopyID%} /Quiet -- Espi On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a XP SP3 machine that is virtualized and needs to be backed up. When veeam runs to backup, it throws an error about the maximum number of vss snapshots have been reached. When I do a vssadmin list shadows, it only shows one entry. When I try a vssadmin delete command, it gives me the error of incorrect usage. After doing research, I cannot find anything on how to delete that shadow copy in XP. Does anyone have any experience with this? TIA Jimmy
