Shadow Copy on Domain Controller c: drive

[acl03]

Any issues with turning on shadow copies on a DC's C: drive? I'd like quick restores to be possible for the SYSVOL share. Didn't know if this was advised against or not.

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Thanks,
Andrew

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[TechyMcSe2k]

Per

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826936

"In the original released version of Windows Server 2003, the initial shadow copy storage area that is allocated for shadow copy creation is 100 megabytes (MB). However, the actual space that is used is much smaller. As time passes, the allocated space may increase as more data is modified on the original volume. However, when you have high input/output traffic on the original volume, the shadow copy storage area cannot grow fast enough to hold all the copy-on-write changes. This causes deletion of all the shadow copies on the original volume.

NOTE: This problem is more noticeable in domain controller configurations. By default, the disk write cache is disabled in domain controller configurations. "