How to use Volume Shadows Copy and Robocopy on Win7? - robocopy

I’d like to backup my system with Robocopy and Powersell but Robocopy is not able to copy opened files.
Volume Shadows Copy seems a solution but I don’t find any clear and simple explanation how to use it.
Do you have any idea?
I’m running on Windows 7 x64 Enterprise.
Thanks for your help.
Franck

In order to perform a VSS snapshot on Windows 7, you can simply do a "System Restore". After, open an administrator console, type vssadmin list shadows. You are looking for the "Shadow Copy Volume" line in the most recent snapshot. Copy this, and do mountvol X: YOUR_VSS_PATH, and your VSS snap will be mounted on X:. After that, run robocopy on X: and you should be good to go.

You can mount the VSS shadow using mklink command. This Works in Servers and Workstations.
mklink is a native tool.
For example:
mklink /D C:\shadow_volume_1 \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\
More information can be found here: http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/Mount_shadow_volumes_on_disk_images

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File Explorer hangs when trying access Mounted Azure File share on Windows 10 Desktop

I mounted a Azure File share on to my desktop trying test connectivity. Everything worked awesome until I deleted the Azure File share in Subscription.
After my test, I deleted the test file share from Azure subscription. Then I continued working on my desktop where the deleted Fileshare was still mounted.
I was trying to navigate to some folder in file explorer and it just hangs. I tried to end the task from Task Manager and Taskbar vanished for 1-2 hours. Then I force rebooted my desktop. It came back fine. Then I wanted to get rid (Unmap) of the mounted Fileshare and same thing repeats again.
Can someone please help me get rid Or UnMap a Network Drive the Azure Fileshare off of my Desktop? Any command or something to Unmap a Network Drive? I tried Net Use F: no luck.
I have a deliverable that need to work on now and finish before Moring but my desktop is unusable at the minute.
net use * /delete /y
saved the day for me. Now I can resume my work.
net use * /delete /y helps for me, but only when I kill explorer.exe process manually
In most cases after a couple of reboots net use ?? /delete /y command works, I have had issues in which I have had to take a more drastic approach in "refreshing windows profile".
Regards

DOSBox on Windows 10- How to mount a network location?

I am trying to use DOSBox to mount a folder on a different machine, both running Windows 10.
I've tried mounting //PC-NAME/filename as it displays in Windows Explorer, but it doesn't work.
Mounting shortcuts doesn't work either. Is this possible to do?
On the console there exists the command net use for such cases.
In DOSbox the mount command is used instead. Examples:
mount c c:\temp
mount n //Snoopy/temp/
For network shares seems it is critical to have that additional / at the end. These mount commands can be also placed in your dosbox-0.74.conf file located in C:\Users\<UserId>\AppData\Local\DOSBox and you'll have C: and N: drives available from the start.
This works for me running DOSbox 0.74 on Win7 64-bit.
Got it! You can't mount the first directory. You have to use a subdirectory:
//PC-NAME/filename/subdirectory

How do I change my location to a network share in PowerShell?

I want to be able to set my location to a network share in the PowerShell command window. I had thought that doing something like \\SERVERNAME\SHARE_NAME would do the trick, but it doesn't. So how do I do it?
Set-Location //server/share
Or, using the alias cd
cd //server/share
Note: you may also use Set-LocationEx in place of Set-Location.

Disk usage in Perl Core

I’m looking for a way to check the remaining free space on a disk within Perl. I can’t use CPAN since I have to deploy the script on many servers with different versions of Perl, and I can’t change it because my team leader ordered me that way.
Any idea? I tried File::stat but I can’t use it on D:\ (the script runs on Windows versions).
Thanks!
fsutil volume diskfree C:
For Windows servers you can run this cmd command from system() method.

Unable to run PostgreSQL as Windows service

I had this in my Windows services:
C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl.exe runservice -N "postgresql-8.4" -D "D:/PostgreSQL/8.4/data" -w
It never finishes executing. But if I did this on the dos shell:
C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl.exe start -N "postgresql-8.4" -D "D:/PostgreSQL/8.4/data" -w
Notice that I only changed the "runservice" to "start" and it works just fine.
Any idea?
The command runservice can only be executed by the service manager
in order to fix my localhost windows 7 to start postgres as a service
i used the following command to start the data
pg_ctl -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\data" start
Then checked the status for errors
pg_ctl -D "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\data" status
if you get error 1063 , its more than likely permissions, i executed the following command
cacls "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\data" /E /T /C /G postgres:F
then reran the start/status, it showed everything fine, but still service manager would not start the service
So, in Services->postgresql->options->logon i set the log on as the Local system account instead of the postgres user, and voila it worked
this happened to me because i set my data directory to be somewhere the postgres windows user account didn't have access to.
I had this problem in Windows after a system crash. Running the first command showed invalid data in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\data\postmaster.pid. Deleting that file did the trick. Reference.
I faced the same issue after moving manually the database data files (PG_DATA directory) without recreating all the necessary permissions.
Here is how I solved my issue:
1. Check permissions on old PG_DATA directory:
cacls "c:\path\to\old\pgdata\dir"
2. Check permissions on new PG_DATA directory:
cacls "d:\path\to\NEW\pgdata\dir"
3. Compare outputs from 1. and 2.
Find the differences between users and/or permissions then synchronize them.
Nota: I found it easier to use explorer for the synchronization step rather than using cacls directly from the command line.
If you changed pg_hba.conf , maybe you missed somewhere in file. For example there must be CIDR after IP in that file. It must be like 192.168.1.100/32
If you forgot to put 32, then server doesnt restart.
Investigation of startup logs could be a clue. For the case problem is in the pg_hba.conf you could see something like this:
2018-11-13 00:39:34.841 PST [8284] FATAL: could not load pg_hba.conf
2018-11-13 00:39:34.842 PST [8284] LOG: database system is shut down
You need to check your logfiles and the windows eventlog for some hint of what the problem is. If there is nothing at all there, you need to break out something like Process Monitor and get a stacktrace of where it's hung.
I have had this issue in the past, and it was that the installer did not set up the permissions correctly for the user that the service was to run as.
I've also ran into this problem with postgresql throwing and error after trying to initialize the database cluster. After analyzing the log files and running command line scripts for 4 hours I've got the solution to anyone running into this problem for Windows Versions.
This is not a detailed description as to why its happening. I've installed odoo 10, 11, 12 and 13 numerous times on countless client servers and windows systems and this is the first time I've ever ran into this problem. I cant say if its because I have MS VS Enterprise installed and Android Studio on this machine or what. But Below is the easy answer on how to fix it and initialize the cluster and create the database files in the data folder.
Open the data folder for postgresql. - For Odoo installs it will normally be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 13.0\PostgreSQL" Unless you chose another location when installing.
Remove any or all files from this folder - If not you will get an error when running initdb.exe
Right click the data folder and open up the properties for it. Click on the Security tab and then click the advanced button on the bottom.
You need to change the owner of this folder to openpgsvc. Click Change and type in openpgsvc and click ok. Once done click the check box below saying that you want this change to affect containers with this container as well.
Then on the Permissions tab click the add button on the bottom. You need to add openpgsvc as a user and give this user full rights. Click apply and and ok to close out of all the folder properties.
Now you need to open cmd.exe - Once open we are going to call initdb.exe and pass some values to it as well.
First run chdir and change the working directory to the location of initdb.exe. For me, running odoo 13 on a windows 10 machine the location is this..
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 13.0\PostgreSQL\bin"
There is one variable that need to be passed as well to make this work here is the list. NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CALL TO initdb.exe
Postgres Data Dir: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 13.0\PostgreSQL\data"
The End Result with the parameter would look like this for my installation:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 13.0\PostgreSQL\bin\initdb.exe" -D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Odoo 13.0\PostgreSQL\data"
Hit Enter and let it rip. The output of this command should look like this below.
Cmd.exe running initdb.exe script
Make sure there is no buggy empty file Program at C:\ like C:\Program
In this case, explorer will warn whenever you log on into Windows.
File Name Warning
-----------------
There is a file or folder on your computer called "C:\Program" which
could cause certain applications to not function correctly. Renaming it
to "C:\Program1" would solve this problem. Would you like to rename
it now?
Installing PostgreSQL 10 On Windows 7 (yes the clock is ticking...). I first tried the latest version 11 which completely failed to install... not a good sign for Windows users. Anyway.
Quick answer: Change the account in the Windows Services panel from Network to Local.
Details of my case
During installation I created/selected a data folder in the user profile folder, because obviously the folder suggested by default, within the program folder, wouldn't work, and if it worked it would be a very idea to put data here (I don't know whether it's usual to do that on Unix/Linux, but for Windows it's it's not allowed for a long time).
At the end (when populating the data cluster) I received an error:
Failed to load SQL Modules into database Cluster
but the installation was able to complete. I found two pages about previous error, here and here, but they didn't seem relevant to my case, so I just started pgAdmin and, on the left "browser", saw the server wasn't active.
I tried to start it from here (had to type the main password), but it went inactive immediately again. So I tried to use the Windows services panel to start "postgresql-x64-10", no joy. I copied the command from this panel and pasted it into a Windows console (cmd.exe) where I finally received this
error 1063.
Searching I found this related question, and was convinced the problem was about permissions.
Solution working for my case
In the services panel I changed the account used to start the service from Network Service to Local System as suggested in a comment by #AlexanderRios.
sc create "postgresql-9.2" binPath= "\"C:/Program Files (x86)/PostgreSQL/9.2/bin/pg_ctl.exe\" runservice -N \"postgresql-9.2\" -D \"C:/Program Files (x86)/PostgreSQL/9.2/data\" -w" DisplayName= "postgresql-9.2" start= auto
Try this on CMD run as Administrator
(Add your parameters depend on your version)
Stop all postgres processes
Go to the postgres data folder (C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.6\data)
Delete the postmaster.opts and postmaster.pid files
From the control panel, in administrative
tools and the services console start the postgres service
open pgAdmin III and then in right pane find server then just right click and connect, enter the password. after connected go to the browser and refresh ODOO. Problem solved.
See image to get better understanding