ShadowCopy: Retrofitting?

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I put a trimmed-down version of XP on my little web/laptop.

Recently installed Home Server on my home network.

In order to back up the laptop, Home Server wants it to be
running something called "ShadowCopy" - which I neglected to put
into the trimmed-down version of XP.

Is there a way to retrofit ShadowCopy?

Could it be as simple a copying one or more .DLL files?
 
The executable responsible for the Volume Shadow Copy service is called
VSSVC.EXE in the system32 directory, but whether just copying this file
across does it, I just don't know. Anyway, it has to be installed as a
service, so you'd have to make a registry entry in order for the
corresponding Shadow Copy service to start.
 
Per Tim Meddick:
The executable responsible for the Volume Shadow Copy service is called
VSSVC.EXE in the system32 directory, but whether just copying this file
across does it, I just don't know. Anyway, it has to be installed as a
service, so you'd have to make a registry entry in order for the
corresponding Shadow Copy service to start.
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I think I'm closing in on it.

Copied VSSVC plus a .DLL file and made them both services.

viz:
Copied vssvc.exe from C:\Windows\System32 to 901's System32

Created a service for ShadowCopy via
C:\> sc create "VSS" binpath= "c:\windows.0\System32\vssvc.exe"
displayname= "Volume Shadow Copy"

(NB: The spaces after "=" signs are required.


Now I'm getting a more generic error from WHS which may or may
not be tangental to my situation.

"The computer failed to take a snapshot of the volume for
backup."

Beaucops postings on this in the WHS forua.... and I'll sort it
out sooner or later.

Thanks for enlightening me on installing services.
 
No problem. I can tell you that it IS possible to copy services from one XP
machine to another. Yu have to find the right registry key and copy
them. If you want to look (use caution when editing the registry) then
here's a pointer:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services]

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
 
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