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4. Click the Settings button. If necessary, you can change where shadow copies for this volume
are stored. The Use limit option is set to 10% of volume size or 300 MB, whichever is higher.
Click the Schedule button. The schedule currently contains two entries: one for 7:00 a.m.
and one for 12:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. You can delete and add entries to the
default schedule to create your own schedule. Click Cancel , and then click OK .
5. To enable shadow copies and create the first shadow copy, click to select the Q:\ volume,
and then click the Enable button. Read the resulting message and click Yes . Click the new
entry in the Shadow copies of selected volume list box, and note that the Delete Now and
Revert buttons are enabled.
6. Click the Revert button, and read the Volume Revert message. Click Check here if you want
to revert this volume , and then click Revert Now . The shadow copy entry is deleted because
this instance was used to revert the volume.
7. Click Create Now . A new shadow copy entry is created. Click OK .
8. Open Windows Explorer, and navigate to the Shared folder on the QData volume. Right-
click the Shared folder in the left pane, point to New , and click Text Document .
9. Open the volume's Properties dialog box again, and click the Shadow Copies tab. If neces-
sary, click the Q:\ volume. Click the entry in the Shadow copies of selected volume list box,
and then click Revert . Click Check here if you want to revert this volume , and then click
Revert Now . Click OK .
10. In Windows Explorer, click to open the Shared folder in the left pane, if necessary. Right-click
empty space in the Shared folder and click Refresh . Notice that the text document you created
is gone. Create another text document. Open it in Notepad, type your name and save the file,
and exit Notepad.
11. Open the volume's Properties dialog box again, and click the Shadow Copies tab. If neces-
sary, click the Q:\ volume. Click Create Now , as you need a shadow copy for the next activ-
ity, and then click OK .

6

Activity 6-5: Using Shadow Copies

Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: Use shadow copies to revert to a previous version.
Description: You want to test your shadow copies configuration. You access the Shared folder
on the QData volume from a network client, make changes to the text document you created,
and revert to the saved version.
Vista is configured with the Shadow Copy client needed to access pre-
vious versions of files made available with shadow copies. If you're
using Windows XP, you must install the client software. You can find
instructions and a link to the client at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/
windowsserver/bb405951.aspx .
1. Log on to the domain from your Vista computer as testuser1 with Password01 .
2. From Vista, open the Shared share located on your server. (If necessary, see Step 3 of Activity
6-2 for a reminder of how to do this.)
3. Open the text document in the Shared share that you created in Activity 6-4; you should see
your name in this document. Add your address or anything you like to this file. Save the file,
and then exit Notepad.
4. Right-click the text document and click Restore previous versions . The file's Properties
dialog box opens to the Previous Versions tab. Only one previous version is listed, and you
have options to open it to view its contents, copy it so that you don't overwrite the current
version, or restore it and overwrite the current version.
5. Click Restore twice. You should get a message stating that the file was restored successfully.
Click OK , and then click OK again.