Archive for August, 2013

VSS Crash and Application Consistency for Hyper-V and VMware Backups

When a live backup is performed on a Windows host, BackupChain uses VSS, which is a Windows component, to send a signal to all VSS aware services to prepare for backup. Then, the operating system itself also prepares for backup and flushes all caches to disk. Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Hyper-V and VMware also also […]