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Daz - 07 Dec 2003 17:13 GMT

When I use Backup the report gives the following
message, "Error returned while creating the volume shadow
coy:80042306". I gather that this means that open files
may not be copied. How can I get Backup to perform a
shadow copy?

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Adi Oltean [MSFT] - 08 Dec 2003 01:42 GMT

Hi,

Please open Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe), and copy & paste in your
reply the recent VSS and VOLSNAP event logs.

Thanks, Adi

P.S. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.

> When I use Backup the report gives the following
> message, "Error returned while creating the volume shadow
> coy:80042306". I gather that this means that open files
> may not be copied. How can I get Backup to perform a
> shadow copy?

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 08 Dec 2003 20:02 GMT

Hi Adi,
I cannot do a copy and paste using this online NG but the
event viewer states

"Volume shadow copy service error. Cannot find diff areas
for creating shadow copies. Please add at least one NTFS
drive to the system with enough free space. The free
space needed is at least 100Mb for each volume to be
backed up/showed."

I have loads of free space on my HDD and do this message
is bit of a mystery.

Many thanks, Daz

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 08 Dec 2003 23:10 GMT

Additionally, I am running on FAT32 and so perhaps Shadow
Copy only works with NTFS?

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>Hi Adi,
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Adi Oltean [MSFT] - 12 Dec 2003 06:30 GMT

Hi Daz,

Shadow copies can be created on FAT/FAT32 volumes too.

But you need to have at least one NTFS volume in your system, in order
to use this feature - even if this NTFS volume is not the one that you
want to backup.

Thanks, Adi

P.S. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.

> Additionally, I am running on FAT32 and so perhaps Shadow
> Copy only works with NTFS?
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> >.

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JHKM - 31 Aug 2004 21:22 GMT

> *When I use Backup the report gives the following
> message, "Error returned while creating the volume shadow
> coy:80042306". I gather that this means that open files
> may not be copied. How can I get Backup to perform a
> shadow copy? *

Just to confirm how to cure this - I had the same problem with a WINX
(Home) machine with all partitions were FAT32. I created a 3GB NTF
partion and volume shadow copy now works Ok. There does not seem to b
any need to tell backup what NTFS volume it should use it just find
it

-
JHK

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