On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:19:00PM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:10 PM, stan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read in the docs for the Windows client that if snapshot mode was > > available, it could back up open databses corectly. > > Zmanda Windows Client uses VSS > > > > > OK, so this leads to a couple of questins. > > > > 1. How can O determine if this mode is avaialble/being used? > > VSS is enabled by default. Please check Volume Shadow Copy service is running. > > > 2. Does this include MS'es SQL database? > > Community version will backup MS SQL database as a file. It does not > do anything special for the database. It can be used for cold backups. > > > 3. How about the mySql instnace that the client uses itself? > > It can backup MySQL in the same manner. > OK, looking in services, I find something called Volume Shadow Copy, running on all 5 machines (2 XP, and 3 Seerver 2003) in question, that's it, right? And BTW it must be enabled by default, becayse one of the XP machines is a virtual machine that I did the install on, and I know nothing about setting up Windows :-)
Thanks for educating me. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
