Question : Our colocation provider uses VSS to backup our dedicated server. The backups show up in the SQL logs […]
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Why do VSS Snapshots cause Availability Groups to fail over?
Question : Why do VSS snapshots cause Availability Groups to fail over? Back in 2018, Ken Kellman and Erik Darling […]
Transaction log uses (not backups of transaction logs)
Question : Working with an interesting scenario that quite frankly, I have not had the time to test, and would […]
What is the difference between database snapshot and VSS database snapshot backup?
Question : I have database backups configured via SAN disk tool. In the backupset table I can see the VSS […]
Will VSS backups break logchain?
Question : Our “hardware” dept has started some ASR replication on one of the servers where we run SQL Server. […]
Freeze I/O on purpose like a vss snapshot
Question : I want to freeze the I/O of a SQL Server instance like the shadow copy does. The result […]
What is the difference between database snapshot and VSS database snapshot backup?
Question : I have database backups configured via SAN disk tool. In the backupset table I can see the VSS […]
what is running VSS on my server [duplicate]
Question : This question already has answers here: Finding what’s making VSS/VDI backups (2 answers) Closed 5 years ago. Client’s […]
What happens when SQL query is executing prior to snapshot backup and query executed during snapshot backup?
Question : During vss based snapshot backup, databases IO is frozen one by one. And subsequently resumed. Questions: When there […]
Finding what’s making VSS/VDI backups
Question : This one’s got me a bit perplexed. How might one determine what process/program is making file-level backups via […]
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