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    Volume Shadow Copy scheduling

    Hi,

    Does anyone know of a way you can push a custom shadow vol schedule (3 times a day) to multiple (W2k3) servers.

    I'm thinking along the lines of a GPO that I can link to the OU the servers are in. Anyone done it before?

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    Re: Volume Shadow Copy scheduling

    how many servers are you talking about here?

    This could be done as a sheduled task and these can be setup using a batch file / logon script or with psexec

    http://www.ss64.com/nt/schtasks.html
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    Re: Volume Shadow Copy scheduling

    I need to roll it to about 150 servers so was looking for something automated.
    Looking at the scheduled task that gets created when it's enabled the volume id is specified in there which is going to be unique on each machine......this might take a while..

    EDIT: Thinking out loud might be able to use vbs to get the volume name and then create the scheduled job using that.....will get on the google.

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    Re: Volume Shadow Copy scheduling

    yes you could use a %% to get it

    **edit**

    infact you can get the info from this

    Code:
    strComputer = "."
    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
    str = ""
    Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk")
    For Each objItem In colItems
       str = str & objItem.Name & " SerialNumber: " & objItem.VolumeSerialNumber & vbCrlf & vbCrlf
    Next
    MsgBox str
    If you need any help pulling the above script apart for your use send me a PM and i'll give you a hand.
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    Re: Volume Shadow Copy scheduling

    I'm getting the correct ID out running "vssadmin list providers" from the command line but I can't find the correct wmi class.
    I thought the Win32_ShadowProvider class might be the ticket but no joy there....

    Does anyone out there know where I should be looking....?

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