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| 28 Nov '04 - 22:34 | kenneth van surksum Working with the Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service
Coming from WindowsNetworking.com:New to Windows Server 2003, the Volume Shadow Copy Service provides users with a way of restoring files themselves without having to involve you. This article explains how to implement and configure this service.
Although I always believed that Windows 2000 Server was a good operating system, I always felt like a few things were missing from it. Take the recycle bin for example. The Recycle Bin was first introduced in Windows 95, and was included in Windows 2000 as well. The problem was that it only worked locally. For example, if an administrator was sitting at the server console and accidentally deleted a file, they could easily go into the recycle bin and get it back. However, if that same administrator was at their workstation accessing the server remotely and accidentally deleted the same file, it would be gone forever. Because the file was deleted from across the network rather than locally, the file would not be placed into the Recycle Bin.
The good news is that Microsoft has remedied this problem in Windows Server 2003. The bad news is that recovering a file that was accidentally deleted from across the network isn’t quite as simple as opening the Recycle Bin. Instead, the process is controlled through the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
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