Tag: VMware Tools Quiescence

Apr 19

Microsoft VSS and Veeam B&R

By Christopher GLEMOT in Backup, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Systems, Veeam, Veeam B&R 9

Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is Windows’ built-in infrastructure for application backups. As a native Windows service, VSS facilitates creating a consistent view of application data during the course of a backup. VSS relies on coordination between VSS requestors, writers and providers for quiescence, or “to make quiet,” a disk volume, so that a …