I've been playing around with Powershell while working on the Microsoft Exchange 2007 certification.
I've been running into an issue with the Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) service not starting before my scheduled backup would run. Thus the backup would fail.
I wrote a short Powershell script that is scheduled to run just before the backup is scheduled. If the VSS service is not started, it starts it.
The code is below:
Get-Service | where { if ( $_.name -match "VSS" -and $_.status -ne "Running" ) { Start-Service VSS } }
And a shot of the scheduled task:
I've been running into an issue with the Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) service not starting before my scheduled backup would run. Thus the backup would fail.
I wrote a short Powershell script that is scheduled to run just before the backup is scheduled. If the VSS service is not started, it starts it.
The code is below:
Get-Service | where { if ( $_.name -match "VSS" -and $_.status -ne "Running" ) { Start-Service VSS } }
And a shot of the scheduled task:
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