Protecting Volume Shadow Copies
Can Backup Exec protect the shadow copies created by Windows that allow you to see different versions of files that are on a file share?
I would imagine that a backup using System Recovery would restore the disk in exactly the same state as the time of backup: including any snapshots created by shadow copy process.
If it was a Backup Exec backup, how would you go about restoring an entire snapshot rather than reverting to a point in restore operation. I've had a look on a BE2010 server and can see the Shadow Copies branch in the selection list but this doesn't include the 2 snapshots that are created every day by default. Under MediaServer resources... ShadowCopyComponents... UserData... there is Deduplication Storage but will this protect the user data that is in the snapshots? How about with BE2012?
Backup the shadows copy component (BE 2010 and earlier) or the system state (BE 2012). This will backup your multiple copies. You then restore the shadows copy component or the system to get them back.