The following are recommendations for maintenance and backups:

• Locate the snapshot volumes for each database on separate disks from snapshots of other databases. This is recommended so that the process of creating the snapshot of one database doesn't interfere with any operations on another database.

• Each snapshot set is associated with a metadata XML file that is needed for Quick Recovery restoration. Create a unique name for the metadata XML file of each snapshot set you create and maintain. The snapshot XML files should be stored separately from the volumes that are included in snapshots. Snapshot schedules have additional XML files associated with them. By default, the snapshot XML files are created in the following path.

  C:\ProgramData\Veritas\VSSXML\application name

• For Quick Recovery solutions, Veritas recommends that you create or refresh a snapshot set immediately after a Full Backup just after the database has been checked for corruption and the transaction logs have been truncated. Thus, you are assured an image of a clean database. Additionally, you may wish to create another snapshot set after an Incremental Backup. Create this snapshot set on a separate set of disks rather than refreshing the snapshot set taken after the Full Backup. This practice ensures you are not overwriting a snapshot set of a clean database with an image of a potentially corrupted database.