Shadow Copies for a Single Folder (Windows servers/clients) 
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It has always irritated me that Shadow Copies is enabled for an entire Volume, as I would like to use it on 1 or 2 folders only.
One solution I’ve come up with is to take advantage of creating a Volume inside an empty folder.
I have tested this on Windows Servers 2008 R2 and 2012.
This is how on Windows Server 2012 (very similar on 2008 R2):
- Open up Computer Management and select Disk Management under Storage.
- Right-click the Volume in which you’d like a folder with Shadow Copies.
- Click Shrink Volume.
- Select an amount to shrink that’s big enough for your folder and small enough to leave enough for the original Volume.
- Click Shrink.
- Right-click the new unallocated space and select New Simple Volume.
- Click Next twice.
- Select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder and click Browse.
- Select the Volume in which you’d like to place the folder.
- Click New Folder and give it a name.
- click OK and Next.
- Name the Volume Label the same as your Folder name (makes it easier to administer) and click Next.
- Click Finish.
- In order for the restoring of previous files to work, you will need to assign this new volume a drive mapping as well.
- Right-click the new Volume and click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
- Click Add and choose a drive letter and click OK.
- Close the Computer Management.
- You can now share the folder on the original Volume.
- Right-click the drive letter you chose for the folder Volume and select Configure Shadow Copies.
- Enable Shadow Copies for the drive letter found in the list of volume.
- Configure the settings as you like.
- One important note is that in order to restore previous versions of a file, you need to do it from the drive letter; it doesn’t work from the folder.
Hope this will help those who’ve been looking for a way to do this.
You could of course just skip some of the steps above and create a « normal » volume with a drive letter and then just share that and enable Shadow Copies, but that’s completely up to you. 🙂
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