On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:54:01AM -0500, Brandon Aiken wrote:
> My understanding of VSS is that only one non-VSS aware app can access
> the data at any one time. All I meant was that if their NetBackup
> version was old that they probably cannot benefit from VSS since I doubt
> the Win32 PG port knows about it either.
VSS in general can back up files that are open, *regardless* of wether
the application that holds it open knows about it. It works the same way
as a SAN snapshot.
Also, most pre-VSS software have special modules to deal with open
files. But they were usually an addon, so if they're on an old enough
version of NetBackup not to have VSS, it's certainly possible that
there's an addon module required that's not present.
//Magnus