{"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":"

Over at Backup Central<\/a>, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS.<\/p>\n

The first, 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’ve been using VSS within your environment, if you’re not quite sure how it works, this is a great piece to read.<\/p>\n

The second delves into issues relating to VMware VCB’s (in)ability to perform consistent application backups – i.e., via VSS for say, an Exchange or Microsoft SQL guest. Titled Hyper-V ahead of VMware in the Backup Race<\/a>, it’s a justifiable kick in the pants to VMware, and a pointed warning regarding VMware\/VCB backups of applications.<\/p>\n

(These two articles, Curtis mentions, came about from some posts by Scott Waterhouse on The Backup Blog<\/a>, which talked about vSphere backups<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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