Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service

SFW integrates with the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) as both a VSS Requestor and a VSS Provider. This integration is provided by FlashSnap.

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) process allows the databases to be frozen before the snapshot operation occurs and then thawed immediately after it. This quiescing, allows for Microsoft supported and guaranteed persistent snapshots of your data.

FlashSnap integrates with VSS to create a snapshot set containing snapshot volumes of all the volumes associated with an Exchange database without taking the databases offline.