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| The application that requests the creation of a shadow copy. |
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| The interface that provides the functionality to actually make the shadow copy. |
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| Application-specific software that acts to ensure that application data is ready for shadow copy creation. |
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| VSS uses what 3 Components? |
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1. Requestors
2. Providers
3. Writers |
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| A set of Component Object Model (COM) application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides standardized interfaces. |
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VSS is a set of Component Object Model (COM) application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides standardized interfaces.
What does this Enable? |
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| Third-party backup and restoration software to centrally manage the backup and restore operations on a variety of applications. |
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| Requestors, providers, and writers communicate within what? |
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| Requestors, providers, and writers communicate in the VSS framework; performing what actions? |
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| Creating and restoring volume shadow copies. |
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| A shadow copy of a volume duplicates what? |
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| All the data held on that volume at one well-defined instant in time. |
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| When starting a backup, what is the function of a VSS Requestor? |
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| The VSS Requestor initiates the backup and restore processes. |
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When starting a backup, the VSS Requestor initiates the backup and Restore processes...
What is the function of the VSS Provider? |
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| Controlling the processes and instructing a writer to prepare a dataset for backup. |
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