Right, I just mean it seems sketchy, why not allow me to lock away the volume for example, ie no drive letter or whatever. LVM snaps are done on the same volume and that works very well. Bah, I digress... jlc
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2003 vss Oh, the files are there, just hidden away in the drive's "system volume information" folder. -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2003 vss Running the snaps off hours didn't make an iota of difference for us, I have no idea why? I can reproduce very bad behavior repeatedly the moment it is enabled, even if it's not taking the snap. Pretty sketch implementation of volume snap shots IMHO... The moment I moved the store off to a new set of spindles it was happy. Even that seems a little sketchy, you don't see a folder or anything on the volume holding the data, it just keeps getting smaller :) jlc From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2003 vss Bonnie, Do you use a dedicated set of spindles to help with the performance problems? A different volume on the same set would not seem to help. I was getting those errors, but I am now running snapshots off-hours and that fixed our issues. -Devin On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Miller Bonnie L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: We have always had huge problems if not redirecting the snapshots to a different volume when it's a busy volume (ie, user home and/or profile folders on the volume). At some point we end up getting the "volume too busy", "I'm deleting all of your snapshots" type of events in the logs, and then all snapshots are just gone from that point forward. We have two file servers left that don't have drives for redirecting the backups, and even with the last VSS rollup installed (<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349/en-us>), I've still seen this behavior at times. WS03 R2 SP2 +hotfixes on these systems, but it's been ongoing for us since WS03 gold. On the flipside, we used to see this on pretty much all volumes. Now, if it's a much less busy volume, I don't tend to see this anymore. -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2003 vss How many in practice actually redirect vss's storage to a different volume? Do you find VSS to be unreliable without? Thanks, jlc -- Devin ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
