Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding client file accesses to AV exceptions

[Timothy J M. <tm...@ob...>]

At a high-level, VSS works the same way as LVN snapshots. At an executional
level, it's completely different. You do not need a separate partition; you
just need enough free space on the volume.

Timothy J. Massey

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On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:27 PM, "Kenneth Porter" <sh...@se...>
wrote:

> --On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:02 PM -0500 Les Mikesell
> <les...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to make a volume shadow snapshot and exclude the
> > snapshot location?
>
> That sounds interesting. Most of my clients are XP SP3. None were
> partitioned with extra space for a VSS like one would need for a Linux
VSS.
> Can you do a VSS on NTFS without a dedicated partition to hold it?
>
> (As I understand it, the extra partition is just a tiny space to hold
> filesystem edits while the filesystem is locked, and only has to be big
> enough to hold any filesystem changes for the lifetime of the VSS.)
>
>
>
>
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