Yeah, and in our case it works out for backups due to bandwidth issues. On most file servers, we have a single RAID0 drive that holds both differential backups (done off-hours) and VSS data from the file volumes. On some big file servers that are not offsite, we also have the same setup (single RAID0) that only hold snapshots-fills up pretty good and seems to solve the problems with snapshots disappearing because the drive's too busy.
I've not tried what you're talking about (putting the VSS data on the same spindle set), but would agree that it probably isn't going to make it better. Maybe someone else on the list has tried that configuration? -Bonnie From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2003 vss Bonnie, Do you use a dedicated set of spindles to help with the performance problems? A different volume on the same set would not seem to help. I was getting those errors, but I am now running snapshots off-hours and that fixed our issues. -Devin On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Miller Bonnie L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: We have always had huge problems if not redirecting the snapshots to a different volume when it's a busy volume (ie, user home and/or profile folders on the volume). At some point we end up getting the "volume too busy", "I'm deleting all of your snapshots" type of events in the logs, and then all snapshots are just gone from that point forward. We have two file servers left that don't have drives for redirecting the backups, and even with the last VSS rollup installed (<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349/en-us>), I've still seen this behavior at times. WS03 R2 SP2 +hotfixes on these systems, but it's been ongoing for us since WS03 gold. On the flipside, we used to see this on pretty much all volumes. Now, if it's a much less busy volume, I don't tend to see this anymore. -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2003 vss How many in practice actually redirect vss's storage to a different volume? Do you find VSS to be unreliable without? Thanks, jlc -- Devin ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
