{"id":1752,"date":"2010-01-12T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2010-01-12T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:18:23","slug":"win-vss-vmware-vcb-vsphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/win-vss-vmware-vcb-vsphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB\/vSphere Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a title=\"Backup Central\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backupcentral.com\" target=\"_blank\">Backup Central<\/a>, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS.<\/p>\n<p>The first, <a title=\"What is Windows VSS and why should you care?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backupcentral.com\/content\/view\/288\/47\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is Windows VSS and why should you care?<\/a> is an excellent overview of how the VSS process works within Windows. Even if you&#8217;ve been using VSS within your environment, if you&#8217;re not quite sure how it works, this is a great piece to read.<\/p>\n<p>The second delves into issues relating to VMware VCB&#8217;s (in)ability to perform consistent application backups &#8211; i.e., via VSS for say, an Exchange or Microsoft SQL guest. Titled <a title=\"Hyper-V ahead of VMware in the backup race\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backupcentral.com\/content\/view\/287\/47\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyper-V ahead of VMware in the Backup Race<\/a>, it&#8217;s a justifiable kick in the pants to VMware, and a pointed warning regarding VMware\/VCB backups of applications.<\/p>\n<p>(These two articles, Curtis mentions, came about from some posts by Scott Waterhouse on <a title=\"The Backup Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thebackupblog.typepad.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Backup Blog<\/a>, which talked about <a title=\"VMware Backups with Avamar and vSphere\" href=\"http:\/\/thebackupblog.typepad.com\/thebackupblog\/2009\/12\/vmware-backup-with-avamar-and-vsphere-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">vSphere backups<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Backup Central, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS. The first,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[446,1069,1087,1097,1098],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-hyper-v","tag-vcb","tag-vmware","tag-vsphere","tag-vss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-sg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}