Monday, July 17, 2017

Volume Shadow Copies

Restore from Shadow Copy with long filename


- right click the folder you want to restore from shadow copy
- Previous Versions
- select a date and select Open
- navigate within the Shadow Copy to the problem folder or file that you wish to recover
- choose properties on this folder or file
- General tab, select the Location, highlight and copy the full location path
ex.
\\localhost\H$\@GMT-2017.07.14-10.45.03\Shares\Directory\
- open command prompt, cmd.exe
- use robocopy to recover
ex.
robocopy "\\localhost\H$\@GMT-2017.07.14-10.45.03\Shares\Directory\" H:\RESTOREHERE /E /COPYALL

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