shadow-copy

We've recently updated a fairly large ASP.NET website (~1500th alexa traffic ranking) to use VS2010 and .NET 4.0 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Since then, when we deploy new versions of the site we occasionally noticed the same error in this post: ASP.Net cannot create/shadow copy The error message is: Cannot create/shadow copy 'xxxx, Version=4.0.4301.26898, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' when that file already exists However, unlike in that post, the error is occurring only in our production environments & only on some servers. After we ship a new version of the code, we recycle

I am in the process of writing a PowerShell script for backing up a windows computer using rsync. To this end, I am attempting to use WMI from said script to create a non-persistent Shadow copy with writer participation (as is apparently recommended for backups). I found out from another question ( Accessing Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Snapshots from powershell ) a way to create a shadow copy in general, but the example given there uses "ClientAccessible" as the context parameter, which result in the creation of a persistent Shadow Copy, without writer participation. While searching for a

Here's a small class I'm using to probe for a list of available plugins: internal static class PluginDirectoryLoader { public static PluginInfo[] ListPlugins(string path) { var name = Path.GetFileName(path); var setup = new AppDomainSetup { ApplicationBase = path, ShadowCopyFiles = "true" }; var appdomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("PluginDirectoryLoader." + name, null, setup); var exts = (IServerExtensionDiscovery)appdomain.CreateInstanceAndUnwrap("ServerX.Common", "ServerX.Common.ServerExtensionDiscovery"); PluginInfo[] plugins = null; try { plugins = exts.ListPlugins(); // <-- BREAK HERE }

I'm trying to backup files on a server, but some of them are in use and cannot be opened. Instead, I'd like to open their shadow copy if the current copy is in use. How can I do this? For reference, I'm using C# .net 3.5. This question is quite old already, so my answer might not be of much use to you, but SO being a Q&A site maybe it still helps someone else. I can't / don't want to put down the entire implementation, but the procedure is goes something like this: You create a Volume Shadow Copy via the Volume Shadow Service Provider for the drive where your file to be read is located(this is

Relating to Can I make the default AppDomain use shadow copies of certain assemblies? , it describes a working solution to activate shadow copying within the default AppDomain for a specific directory. Basically it says to use these simple methods: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetShadowCopyPath(aDirectory); AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetShadowCopyFiles(); But because the methods used here are marked as obsolete I was wondering what is now the correct way to accomplish the same. The warning message hints to: Please investigate the use of AppDomainSetup.ShadowCopyDirectories instead An AppDomain has a