Sorry... I had pasted the internal link. Here is the external link:
     http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101639

Here is another link that might help with a conceptual view:
     http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/tivoli/library/t-tsm-vss/index.html

It discusses TSM and VSS. It is a few years old,
but the concepts remain the same. Note that it refers
to TSM for Copy Services, which is the former name
of FlashCopy Manager.


>> very much obliged for the answer. I understand it somewhat better
>> now. Could you perhaps post a new link to that whitepaper, because
>> the link doesn't seem to be working.
>>
>> Thank you