VSS Transfer Errors while using Disk Quotas (4035607)

You can create either a hard quota or a soft quota:

• A hard quota prevents users from saving files after the space limit is reached and generates notifications when the volume of data reaches each configured threshold.
• A soft quota does not enforce the quota limit but generates all configured notifications.

For more information on working with Disk Quotas, please visit this Microsoft TechNet article.

Solution 1

Increase your Disk Quota limit via Quota Manager

1. In Quota Templates, select the quota template that you want to modify.

2. Right-click the quota template, and then click Edit Template Properties (or in the Actions pane, under Selected Quota Templates, click Edit Template Properties). This opens the Quota Template Properties dialog box.

3. Perform all necessary changes. The settings and notification options are identical to those that you can set when you create a quota template. (For more information, see Creating a Quota Template earlier in this guide.) Optionally, you can copy the properties of a different template and modify them for this one.

4. When you are finished editing the template properties, click OK. This will open the Update Quotas Derived from Template dialog box.

5. Select the type of update that you want to apply:

   • If you have quotas that have been modified since they were created using the original template, and you do not want to change them, select Apply template only to derived quotas that match the original template. This option will update only those quotas that have not been edited since they were created with the original template.
   • If you want to modify all existing quotas that were created from the original template, select Apply template to all derived quotas.
   • If you want to keep the existing quotas unchanged, select Do not apply template to derived quotas.

6. Click OK.

Solution 2

Move the affected volume's Shadow Copy to a different volume.  Please note, you may need a create a small volume in Disk Management to complete this task.

1. The first step is to launch the Computer Management configuration tool (Start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management).
2. Once invoked, select Storage -> Disk Management from the tree in the left panel to display the disk and volume information for the local system.
3. In the graphical view, right click on a volume and select on Properties to launch the properties dialog.
4. In the properties dialog, select the Shadow Copy tab to display the Shadow Copy properties
5. Select the affected volume and click on Settings
6. The Select a volume section of the properties dialog lists the volumes present on the local system.
   • Select the new volume in this list where the Shadow Copy will be create.
     • Please note, you can have multiple volumes point to a single volume to use for Shadow Copy creation.  
     • This new volume should not have Disk Quota enabled on it.

Repeat steps 5 and 6 for additional volumes using Disk Quota that cannot create a Shadow Copy