Re: Vista/7 Shadow Copy

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

On 5/21/10 3:25 PM, Flynn, Gary wrote:
> What do you think of disabling Shadow Copy on computers not having full
> disk encryption to prevent inadvertent storage of sensitive data? Our
> support folks indicated they don’t use the feature for maintenance or
> troubleshooting. Some of our Windows folks are worried that it might be
> used as part of the backup process or to recover files from servers
> (???). And it it nice to have around when pushing patches or changes
> that have higher risk of failure (e.g. Service packs).

At least one major enterprise backup application I'm aware of uses VSS
and backups will fail should that be disabled. You'll have to test your
client machines to see if your client backup process is similarly hobbled.

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