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
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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