Dell PowerVault 775N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 41)

You must use the Dell™ PowerVault™ NAS Manager to manage your shadow copies. Using Cluster Administrator or cluster.exe to manage
shadow copies in a cluster is not supported.
See the Dell PowerVault 77xN NAS Systems Administrator Guide for more information on managing shadow copies using NAS Manager.
Enabling Shadow Copies on a Cluster Node
When you enable shadow copies on a cluster node (for example, by using the Configure Shadow Copy user interface through the Computer
Management Microsoft Management Console [MMC]), the operating system automatically generates and configures a Volume Shadow Copy
Service Task resource and a scheduled task for creating the shadow copy. You are not required to use Cluster Administrator or cluster.exe to
create the resource. Additionally, the Configure Shadow Copy user interface automatically configures the required resource dependencies.
Table 2-7 provides the default properties of the scheduled task and Volume Shadow Copy Service Task resource.
Table 2-7. Default Properties for the Scheduled Task and Volume Shadow Copy Service Task Resource
Scheduled
Task Property
Volume Shadow Copy Service Task
Resource (cluster.exe Property)
Default Setting
Name of task Name of resource (taskname) ShadowCopyVolume{VolumeGUID}
Run Command to run/Command parameters
(ApplicationName/ApplicationParams)
%systemroot%\system32\vssadmin.exe Create Shadow
/AutoRetry=5/For=\\[drive_letter]\ Volume{VolumeGUID}\
Creator n/a Cluster service
Start in Start in %systemroot%\system32\
Run as n/a Local System
Schedule Schedule (TriggerArray) The default settings used by Shadow Copies of Shared Folders
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