Comment by justin66
2 days ago
I always turned it off. I've literally never experienced a moment of "wow, I wish I had a shadow copy in place so I could help solve this problem."
Conversely, there were plenty of times when volume shadow copy running was the problem.
Talking about my use of home PCs, of course.
You've never wished you (or some process) hadn't just overwritten a file?
That's not what I wrote. What I wrote:
I've literally never experienced a moment of "wow, I wish I had a shadow copy in place so I could help solve this problem."
I guess my backup solutions are more primitive, but certainly more predictable in terms of their effect on the system. I didn't turn off volume shadow copy for my own amusement, I turned it off because it was freezing some devices' availability for I/O while it did its work.
My context was that, independent of any actual backup solution, in Vista and 7 shadow copy gave you file history across pretty much the whole drive (this was separate from "System Restore"). This made it trivial to deal with restoring some previous version of a file or folder even days later. If you ever had that problem, shadow copy would have solved it*
* I think it was not in Home Edition, so yes, thumbs down on that