
420 5.6 Mail Transport Optimization
but that particular mode of operation requires specific back-end storage fea-
tures, as well as maturing at all levels (VSS provider, requestor, writer, and
supporting back-end array).
So this feature makes for fast backups, but, more important, it makes for
extremely fast restores. If the database volume should fail, all you need to
do is to surface it to the Exchange 2003 server volume hosting the shadow
copy of the database, mount it again, and, after a few transactions are
played in the target database, you are back online. The size of the data-
base—it could 100 GB or more—does not matter for most shadowcopy
implementations. ...