On Saturday 03 April 2010 01:49:04 James Harper wrote:
> > File = c:/
> > Plugin = "systemstate:/@SYSTEMSTATE/"
> > Plugin = "vssexchange:/@VSSEXCHANGE/" (doesn't exist yet)
> > File = e:/
> > Plugin = "vssmssql:/@VSSMSSQL/" (also doesn't exist yet)
> > File = d:/
> > Plugin = "vssoracle:/@VSSORACLE/" (I assume oracle uses VSS)
> >
> > Then we'd have to take care to write the normal backup stuff direct to
> > the media (or spool it as per the config), but write the plugin data to
> > the temporary spool. I assume that is possible. Otherwise we just tell
> > the user not to do that, put the file backups first then the plugins.
> >
> > So no showstoppers so far...
>
> Something just occurred to me after I hit send (how often does that
> happen!) - all the VSS stuff has to be backed up in the same way and
> together whether it is system state, Exchange, or MSSQL. Exchange 

Can you explain this -- I am really surprised at that, and if we have to do it 
that way, I'll probably stop the project as we currently have it defined.

> can be up 
> to 75GB under Exchange 2003, probably much bigger under 2007/2010. MSSQL is
> pretty much open ended in terms of size. I think we'd run the risk of
> running out of spool space.
>
> IMHO, writing to the catalog is a much more elegant solution.

Can you send me an example of one of these XML files that is not too big?

>
> James



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