Move vss shadow storage location in windows 11

Question

How do you move the vss shadow storage location away from the C: drive in Windows 11? The approach used in Windows 10 does not work.

Answer 1

Hello there,

When you change the location of the shadow copy storage area, all previous shadow copies are deleted.

Check the 'Move the volume shadow copy storage area to a different volume' section of this TechNet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd364933(WS.10).aspx

Some useful article links that might throw some insights are listed below https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/c1e3ad6e-e46c-49ba-8b6e-222440ef50e2/moving-data-drive-with-shadow-copies?forum=winserverfiles

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/8c6d4875-0160-4b6d-b53f-d483f0dad6a2/how-to-safely-change-the-storage-area-for-vss-shadow-copies?forum=winservergen

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f20e1622-0b26-4d03-be9a-157d1b024a50/shadow-copy-vss-moving-shadow-to-another-drive-in-system-san-and-local-not-all-drives-show-in?forum=winserverfiles

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