I am not aware of any links off-hand to any official Microsoft statements.
Why would your customer doubt this? Alternatives that come to mind:
- Take a look at the install footprint of a base Windows 2003 vs. Windows
2008:
Windows 2003: C:\Windows has 16,000 files/3 GB
Windows 2008: C:\Windows has 71,000 files/15 GB
There are, of course, other files, but the size of C:\Windows alone is very
telling.
- If you do a google search on "windows 2008 system state size", you'll
probably find some credible, albeit anecdotal evidence of the size.
- If you run a TSM backup-archive client "backup systemstate" command,
you'll see the size.
- If you get the VSS SDK, it comes with the vshadow.exe tool that you can
use to get a sense of the size:
vshadow -p -wm2 > youroutputfile
Then review the output. Run the same command on Windows 2003 and compare
the sizes. There is clearly a lot more in the 2008 version.
- If your customer needs to hear it from Microsoft, then perhaps this is a
question to ask directly of Microsoft.
Best regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html
The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/28/2009
10:46:19 AM:
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> Win2008 System State
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> Christian Svensson
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> ADSM-L
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> 10/28/2009 10:47 AM
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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> Hi Guys,
> Does anyone have a link to Microsoft where it says that Win2008
> System State Backup is much bigger then Windows 2003 System State?
> I need to prove for a customer that System State and System Services
> is much bigger now with Windows Server 2008 and we need to setup
> some policies for System State?
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>
> Best Regards
> Christian Svensson
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