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    Hello,

    My System Volume Information folder on my Win 2008 R2 is over 300GB, total partition size is 3.7 TB. I'm using this partition to store third party backup software files. maybe a 100 files, that is all what this drive has. When I tried to delete some older System Volume Information files, nothing happens. I do not get permission denied or anything!! How can I reduce the size of this folder? Shadow copies is disabled on all partitions.

    Monday, May 7, 2012 4:37 PM
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    Hi,

    It's strange that these files accumulate at 02:28 AM each morning. I'd guess they are system state backups, though they're starting to get rather large quite quickly.

    Assuming you have installed the Windows Server Backup Features from Server Manager, you can remove any existing system state backups with the following command (from an elevated command prompt):

    wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -keepversions:0

    Cheers,
    Lain

    Tuesday, May 8, 2012 2:47 AM
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    Hi,

    It's strange that these files accumulate at 02:28 AM each morning. I'd guess they are system state backups, though they're starting to get rather large quite quickly.

    Assuming you have installed the Windows Server Backup Features from Server Manager, you can remove any existing system state backups with the following command (from an elevated command prompt):

    wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -keepversions:0

    Cheers,
    Lain

    Tuesday, May 8, 2012 2:47 AM
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    Hi,

    I tried to execute wbadmin cmd but every time error
    present as below:

    C:\Windows\System32>wbadmin.exe delete systemstatebackup -keepversions:3

    wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool

    (C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.<o:p></o:p>

    Enumerating system state backups...

    ERROR - No backup was found.

    I jump searching over the internet to find a solution and finally its worked with me when follow below steps:

    I right clicked on the drive C: for example and chose shadow copies tap confirm that shadow copies being disabled on all the drives.

    I chose Settings and then “use Limit" put in 1024MB, OK and OK, the drive suddenly had plenty of free space.

    Thanks

    Mohamed Baioumy



    Friday, November 23, 2012 11:15 PM
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    Try running "vssadmin list shadowstorage". This will list the amount of storage used.

    Shadow Copy Storage association
       For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{*}\
       Shadow Copy Storage volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{*}\
       Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 18.577 GB (92%)
       Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 18.89 GB (94%)
       Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: UNBOUNDED (100%)

    Running the command below will set a limit to the space used

    vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=E: /MaxSize=2GB

    • Proposed as answer by Snakeeyesesd2 Friday, April 5, 2013 3:57 PM
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    Thnx mmilicic for this solution.

    If desired, you can use mmilicic solution in the GUI by right clicking on the specific volume in 'Windows Explorer' and choose "Configure Shadow Copies". Choose the volume and click on settings. You can choose the limit of the Shadows Copies storage, and also adjust the schedule (this is apparently causing the enormous grow in storage.)

    • Proposed as answer by RHPhilipsen Monday, April 8, 2013 7:13 AM
    Monday, April 8, 2013 7:13 AM
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    I performed the GUI "Configure Shadow Copies" option and changed the limit to the minimum, checked the folder size in which freed up the space and then changed it back to no limit.  Thank you for this direction
    Wednesday, July 9, 2014 11:47 AM
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    Hi,

    I right clicked on the drive C: for example and chose shadow copies tap confirm that shadow copies being disabled on all the drives.

    I chose Settings and then “use Limit" put in 1024MB, OK and OK, the drive suddenly had plenty of free space.

    Thanks

    Mohamed Baioumy

    Worked perfectly on Windows Server 2012 too. Thanks Mahomed!
    Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:07 PM
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    Thanks Mohamed, its worked
    Monday, September 15, 2014 3:14 PM
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    Hi - It is the size of the source drive that has the volume limit restriction (3.7 Tb), not the remote destination drive. If you do a custom backup vs. full server backup in the Win 2008 r2 server and just select the folders etc. that you want backed up, it will get past that 2 Tb limitation as you data is only 300 Gb. Hope this helps
    Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:28 PM
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    Worked perfectly. Thanks Mahomed!

    “Na vida, todos temos de sofrer uma de duas dores: a dor da disciplina ou a dor do arrependimento. A diferença é que a dor da disciplina pesa gramas e a dor do arrependimento pesa toneladas” (Jim Rohn, “America´s foremost business philosopher”,)

    Wednesday, September 30, 2015 1:19 PM
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    Seems years back but its still worth it. Thanks for shaing, it works for me
    Friday, June 24, 2016 10:11 AM
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    Fantastic ! (on server 2008R2) I got 200GB space back on a disk of 232GB size, with not more left then 3GB..
    Spent hours of trying complex solutions and not a single clue from Microsoft on this.
    How the hell can this size matter when Shadow copies and System restore are disabled, silently killing my servers. By the way, the limit was set to 32000 MB,which still is not the 200GB I lost. Weird.
    Anyway: it worked instantly ! Thanks.

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    Tuesday, July 11, 2017 9:26 PM
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