
418 5.5 Storage Optimization for Exchange 2003
VSS Backups: Making a Point-in-Time Copy
The actual process of generating the duplicate volume can be very short (a
few seconds). But during that time, no activity can occur on the database,
which must be in as consistent a state as possible. In Exchange 2000, to
get a consistent database you have to dismount it. With Exchange 5.5,
you have to stop the STORE service. In this case, you typically don’t care
about the transaction log files, because you know that after a database dis-
mount all committed transactions will have been applied to the database
pages. So the database itself is fully consistent, and ...