HP Data Protector A.06.00 additional writers and HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service integration

2 Integrating Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service with
Data Protector
Introduction
A traditional backup process is based on the direct communication between the
backup application and the application whose data is backed up. This backup
method requires from the backup application an individual interface for each
application it backs up.
The number of applications on the market is constantly increasing. The necessity of
handling application specific features can cause difficulties in backup, restore, and
storage activities. An effective solution to this problem is introducing a coordinator
among the actors of the backup and restore process.
Volume Shadow Copy Service
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a software service introduced by Microsoft on
Windows operating systems. This service collaborates with the backup application,
applications to be backed up, shadow copy providers, and the operating system
kernel to implement the management of volume shadow copies and shadow copy
sets.
Data Protector supports the integration with VSS.
The Data Protector Volume Shadow Copy integration provides a unified
communication interface that can coordinate backup and restore of an application
regardless of their specific features. With this approach, a backup application does
not need to handle each application to be backed up specifically. However, the
production application as well as the backup application must conform to the VSS
specification.
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