how to delete old exchange_snap folder

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If these are visible via vssadmin list shadows, then you can remove them via vssadmin delete shadows.  Make sure that such deletion won't break application database data about available snaps.

Hello Pavel,

It's very strange that you have yet there snapshots. Could you please check if it NMM GUI you can see anything under snapshot management? If so please manage those snapshots from NMM GUI to prevent any inconsistency.

Otherwise I would suggest you to check with vssadmin as Hrvoje said, but use diskshadow to delete them, as vssadmin doesn't work that well when it comes to delete snapshots.

Anyway this is a mount point and not really a shadow, as the shadows as such (snapshots) are stored within the System Volume information, so we would need to find out first why those amount points are still there.

Please take a look at the diskshadow documentation so that you can get all the information about those mount points.

Thank you,

Carlos

many thanks to all

vssadmin list shadows

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

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Contents of shadow copy set ID: {30e05a23-a3bc-4f5e-a067-9eb3b534d837}

   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 13.9.2012 21:00:46

      Shadow Copy ID: {2af98c40-f522-49e3-8d6e-ab108c393354}

         Original Volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{0159b9de-e6f3-11e1-8926-0050568236e4}\

         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1

         Originating Machine: MAILBOX

         Service Machine: MAILBOX

         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'

         Type: ApplicationRollback

         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, Differential, Exposed locally

Contents of shadow copy set ID: {068599de-66b9-4a14-b1df-3467d0cd1094}

   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 19.10.2012 20:00:44

      Shadow Copy ID: {eeb1df31-9a31-47dc-a6f8-3894b34aae66}

         Original Volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{0159b9de-e6f3-11e1-8926-0050568236e4}\

         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy5

         Originating Machine: MAILBOX

         Service Machine: MAILBOX

         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'

         Type: ApplicationRollback

         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, Differential, Exposed locally

there is version 8.0 , without snapshot management (is available from 8.1)

Hi Pavel,

Did you manage to delete the snapshots?

Did you use NMM to create them?

If you used NMM, did you check if you can still browse those snapshots in snapshot management in NMM GUI?

If you want to get rid of those no matter what do as follows:

Open a commnd prompt and type this:

diskshadow

From Diskshadow command run:

DISKSHADOW>delete shadows all

DISKSHADOW>exit

Thank you,

Carlos

it works, many thanks for your help, you have a big beer here from me  :-)