Hi

> Symantec Livestate Recovery uses Windows Volume Shadow Copy(VSS).
> Firebird is not VSS aware. And, when reading Symantec's
> documentation, even Oracle is not VSS aware. ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vss/base/th
e_vss_model.asp?frame=true

> Native shadow copy support. Beginning with WindowsB. XP, shadow copy

support is available through VSS as a native part of the Windows operating
system. As long as at least one NTFS disk is present on a system, these
systems can be configured to support shadow copies of all disk systems
mounted on them.

Basically that means that all applications which will be backed up using VSS
AND have on disk data that might be in inconsistent state, needs to
implement the VSS Writer interface. However, firebirds databases are by
default always consistent.
I don't know wether this is correct for Oracle, but it is (or should be) for
firebird...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vss/base/wr
iters.asp?frame=true

> If no writers are present during a VSS backup operation, a shadow copy can

still be created. In this case, all data on the shadow-copied volume will be
in the crash-consistent state.

Yes, my databases reside on ntfs...

Regards,
Steffen


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