Jeremy Phillips

Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) and Exchange – The Basics

Michael  B. Smith posted a good article on VSS and Exchange recently. If you’re an Exchange admin it’s definitely worth the read.

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) was originally added to Windows Server 2003. The first version of Exchange Server to support VSS was Exchange Server 2003. The primary reason for the existence of VSS is to improve the performance of backup operations. VSS is only available for NTFS volumes.

I will not cover specific implementation details here, but concepts; some of those concepts will be specific to NTFS and Exchange specific and some will be general to VSS.

via Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) and Exchange – The Basics – Michael’s meanderings….

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