VSSAdmin Delete Shadows FAIL – DiskShadow to the Rescue

nbeam published 5 years ago in Microsoft, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2012R2, Storage, Windows Administration. Tags: , , ,

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I won’t go into great detail here but in short, if VSSAdmin is not letting you delete shadow copies and is throwing this message: Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context.  Try removing them with the backup application which created them. There is another (less safe…) program called DiskShadow which […]