Previous Versions delayed with SBS 2008 / Windows 7

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Published on 2012-11-22T06:30:45Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 5:16 UTC
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The SBS 2008 at this site has Previous Versions enabled on a mapped drive. The snapshots happen 3 times a day. I doubt they take very long; the diff size is only a few GB. The problem is that the users on Windows 7 cannot see their previous versions until a few hours later.

Is there some indexing that has to happen before the Previous Versions are visible to the client machines?

Edit: In the application log, 3 minutes after every scheduled backup, there is an event for VSS (EventID 8224) saying "The VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout" Apparently this means it has finished successfully, even though modified files still do not show another version.

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