Re: Open File Support -Win2k3 32bit vs 64bit

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Boyer
sing VSS. The option is: Snapshotproviderfs LVSA | VSS | NONE. Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Open File Support -Win2k3 32bit vs 64b

Re: Open File Support -Win2k3 32bit vs 64bit

2009-01-15 Thread Wanda Prather
Jason, Before you go further down the OFS rabbit hole: On Windows, it is rare to use OFS for backups of MS apps like SQL. Those files are in use by MS SQL. Backing them up via OFS just gives you a copy of a possibly unstable/inconsistent file that may not be usable on restore. When you see tho

Open File Support -Win2k3 32bit vs 64bit

2009-01-14 Thread Jason Clarke
Hi list, First post, new admin, thrown in the deep end :-) 5.4 server, 5.4 clients. New installs everywhere. Win2k3 64bit server, mixture of Win2k3,2k,XP,Linux clients. Going through the nightly Operational Report, I'm noticing that various files are not backed up due to being in use. They're al