"Perform Full VSS Backup"

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I was just defining a new backup on a new external drive and saw  "Perform Full VSS Backup"  as an option in the advanced menu.  I've never seen that before and I can't find it in the manual.  I'm using Ghost ver. 14 -- anybody know what  "Perform Full VSS Backup"  means?  Is it important?

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I couldn't find it in the Ghost 15 manual either so I looked in the SSR2011 manual...

 

Perform full VSS backup


Lets you perform a full backup on the VSS
storage and send a request for VSS to review
its own transaction log. This option is used
for VSS applications, such as Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003 or Microsoft SQL.
VSS determines what transactions are
already committed to the database and then
truncates those transactions. Among other
things, truncated transaction logs help keep
the file size manageable and limits the
amount of hard drive space that the file uses.
If you do not select this option, backups still
occur on the VSS storage. However, VSS does
not automatically truncate the transaction
logs following a backup.
Note: This option does not appear if you
create a recovery point using the Back Up
MyComputer wizard feature in Symantec
System Recovery Disk.

 

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Thanks Red. 

 

I've been using Ghost v. 14 for a couple of years and didn't see it until today.  Doesn't sound like something I need to worry about.

 

Jack