Is the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) disabled?

Article: 100027240
Last Published: 2023-05-15
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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection

Problem

Is the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) disabled?

 

Solution

This report examines the configuration of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)  to determine if it is disabled or exited with errors.
 
Without the VSS service running, backups may fail.

Backup applications in Windows rely on VSS for various Snapshot operations.

For more information on how each product works with VSS to create Snapshots, refer to the links under related documents.

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