{"id":258,"date":"2016-12-13T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-03-02T01:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T23:03:38","slug":"configure-shadow-copy-for-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Configure Shadow Copy For Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 lack the feature of schedule shadow copy like in windows 7 and server 2008. But you Still can do it with Win32_ShadowCopy class in WMI.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>First enable the shadow copy option :<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>Open Control Panel -&gt; system -&gt; system protection tab -&gt;choose drive letter-&gt; click enable and set the amount of disk space you want to use\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ShadowCopy-300x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ShadowCopy-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ShadowCopy-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ShadowCopy.png 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/pre>\n<p>The command to run is (for drive c in this example) :<\/p>\n<pre>wmic shadowcopy call create Volume=c:\\<\/pre>\n<p>to test this run on command prompt as administrator and check for creation of shadow copy<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Create Schedule Task:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>open Task Schedule and create task -&gt; name it ShadowCopy_C (or any other name you want) -&gt;select the triggers, once it was at 07:00 and 12:00 every day<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-trigger-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-trigger-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-trigger.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the action tab write WMIC -&gt; at the arguments -&gt; shadowcopy call create Volume=C:\\<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-Action-300x145.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-Action-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-Action-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Shadowcopy_Sched-Action.png 998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do this for every partition<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good Luck<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Windows 10 lack the feature of schedule shadow copy like in windows 7 and server 2008. But you Still can do it with Win32_ShadowCopy class in WMI. First enable the shadow copy option : Open Control Panel -&gt; system -&gt; system protection tab -&gt;choose drive letter-&gt; click enable and set the amount of disk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}