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		<title>fsutil 8dot3name: the files strip silently skips</title>
		<link>https://zaur.it/fsutil-8dot3name-short-names-ntfs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every file created on an NTFS volume with 8.3 name creation left on gets two names, not one. There is the long name a person reads, and there is a generated short name of at most eight characters, a dot and three more, which almost nothing displays. It is invisible until it is not: an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>diskshadow in Windows: create, expose and delete shadow copies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to create a persistent VSS shadow copy with diskshadow, expose it as a drive letter, script it in a .dsh file, and delete it without collateral.]]></description>
		
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		<title>wbadmin Command in Windows: Versions, Recovery and Error Codes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[wbadmin is the command line front end to Windows Server Backup. It creates one off and scheduled backups, restores volumes, files, applications and the system state, and reports on what has already been backed up. On a server with no third party backup agent it is the whole backup product, driven from an elevated prompt. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>vssadmin in Windows: shadow copies, VSS writers and why backups fail</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Storage and backup]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost every backup on Windows is taken from a shadow copy rather than from the live volume. The Volume Shadow Copy Service freezes the applications that hold open files, takes a point-in-time copy of the volume, then thaws them. When a backup job fails with nothing useful in its own log, the failure usually happened [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>fsutil in Windows: volume, file and sparse file operations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disks]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most administrators meet fsutil exactly once, in a forum answer that says to run fsutil hardlink list or fsutil dirty query, and never look at the rest of it. That is a shame, because fsutil is the only built in tool that talks to NTFS at the level NTFS actually works: clusters, allocation ranges, valid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>chkdsk in Windows: what each switch does, and when not to run it</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of what administrators know about chkdsk was true in 2005. Run it with /f /r, reboot, watch a progress percentage for four hours, hope. On a modern NTFS volume that ritual is usually the wrong move, and on a large disk it is an outage you chose to have. Since Windows 8 and Windows [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>DISKPART: practical guide for sysadmins - 5 scenarios where Disk Management fails</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most disk operations in Windows can be done through the graphical Disk Management tool. But there are situations where the GUI refuses to help - recovery partitions blocking an extend operation, disks that need to be initialized before Windows Setup can see them, or volumes that need scripted preparation across dozens of machines. This is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to sync game saves to the cloud on Windows using mklink</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many games store save files in a fixed local path with no built-in cloud sync option. If you reinstall Windows, switch machines, or simply want an automatic backup of your progress, the standard workaround is to move the save folder to a cloud-synced directory and replace it with a symbolic link. The game writes to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to move AppData folder to another drive on Windows</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some applications write gigabytes of cache, logs, and profile data to C:\Users\John\AppData - with no built-in option to change that location. On systems with a small SSD boot drive, this fills up quickly. The standard solution is to move the target folder to a secondary drive and replace it with a junction that points back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to list all symbolic links on Windows</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zaur Bahramov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Symbolic links and junctions are invisible in normal directory listings - they appear as regular folders or files in File Explorer and most tools. When auditing a system, troubleshooting a broken path, or reviewing a server you inherited, knowing where the links are and what they point to is essential. This article covers the commands [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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