I enabled Shadow Copies on a whole drive that holds user folder shares. As per the best practices, I re-directed the Shadow Volume to a different drive. Both are VHDs running on the same server, but that shouldn't prevent copies from being taken.
What is happening is, d:\share1 does not have any previous versions, but d:\share2 does. Even if I force a non-scheduled backup, share1 does not have anything listed in previous versions.
Furthermore, and to my dismay, d:\share2\user1 is backed up, but user2 is not, and within the user folders, it seems random as to which folders get backed up, and which don't.
Now, it's only been a few days since I enabled shadow copies, but I thought that if I forced a manual backup, it would get everything.
This is Server 2012, Running Hyper-V, and the VM (again 2012) has 3 drives, one boot, one data, and one datashadowcopy. If you need any more information I'd be happy to provide it.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Best Answer
Shadow Copies are not "Backup", as in "everything gets copied on there". You will only see shadow copy data when something is either modified or deleted from a folder.
So as long as no one in d:\share2 changes or deletes anything, the shadow copy stays empty.