Background info on Shadow Copy
Shadow copy on Windows Server 2008 allows your server to make snapshots of a selected drive as a way to protect you from any accidental data loss that may occur. In my experience it saves a lot of time if you have this feature enabled. You might want to consider a server that has quite a bit of space on it.

For example: A user deletes a file stored on a file server, this server must have the File Services Role installed so that it can serve files to the users on your network.

  • If you don’t have shadow copy configured on the server, your only means of recovering that file would be to restore it from a backup image.
  • If you do have the server configured with shadow copy then it’s easy and quite simple to restore that file from the properties menu in the affected folder.

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