What is System Volume Information?

[Fruit2O]

I formatted a hard drive. I have all my data on another hard drive and
wanted a backup data drive. So I copied all mmy data to the newly
formatted drive. The copying stopped when it came to the System Volume
Information - so I said go ahead and copy the SVI that was on the
original data drive and override the one that was on the newly
formatted drive. Did I do right?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I formatted a hard drive. I have all my data on another hard drive and
wanted a backup data drive. So I copied all mmy data to the newly
formatted drive. The copying stopped when it came to the System Volume
Information - so I said go ahead and copy the SVI that was on the
original data drive and override the one that was on the newly
formatted drive. Did I do right?

System volume information is the folder holding the restore points. If
you turn System Restore off, that folder will be emptied. If you turn it
on again, a new restore point will be created.

If this isn't the system drive, it really doesn't matter at all, except for
the space it takes.

HTH
-pk

 

[JS]

See: http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_volume_information_folder1.htm

JS

 

[Fruit2O]

I formatted a hard drive. I have all my data on another hard drive and
wanted a backup data drive. So I copied all mmy data to the newly
formatted drive. The copying stopped when it came to the System Volume
Information - so I said go ahead and copy the SVI that was on the
original data drive and override the one that was on the newly
formatted drive. Did I do right?

Thank you both.

 

[JS]

You're Welcome

JS

Thank you both.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

The System Volume Information (SVI) folder is a super hidden system folder.
The SVI folder is where System Restores holds it’s restore points and other
information. There will be a SVI folder on every partition Windows sees. If
the Indexing Service has been turned on it will store files in the SVI
folders. Encrypting File System also uses the SVI folder on each partition
to store the log file that is generated during the encryption and decryption
process.

The data drive will contains it's own SVI folder. There's no reason to keep
a backup on the data drive.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org