True - but when you have LARGE TB's of Data, its horrible!

The example was for a file system 1.7GB in size !

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Simon Weaver
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-----Original Message-----
From: bob944 [mailto:bob944 at attglobal.net] 
Sent: 12 December 2006 14:15
To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: otm/vsp/vss (was: RE: Checkpoint on backups.)


I don't have a dog in this fight--I have as little to do with Microsoft
products as possible.

> I have also found our backups
> can run 10 mins slower with VSP on, compared to turning it off.

Your bpbkar log will show you how much of that is due to the initial wait
for n seconds of disk-quiet time.

> And to be honest, with or without VSP on, the files still get
> backed up (excluding .pst and db related files or open processes).

Well, time-consistent backups of *open* files is rather the point, isn't it?

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