Backing Up Windows 7 with VSS
Good information. I wondered about the .ost I guess since it's use is for offline usage, then it will be re-created if the user was to re-install to a new hard disk and then re-install MS-Office. It does not maintain a local storage such as the .pst file.
Thanks
On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Kevin Keane (subscriptions) wrote:
This behavior is by design; Microsoft designed VSS to exclude OST files from the shadow copy. OST files are expensive to back up and useless in a recovery. The .tmp file that you see probably is a copy that shouldn't exist in the first place - maybe antivirus software scanned the OST file and made this copy (solution: exclude OST files from antivirus scans - bad things will happen if you don't).
http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item75.htm
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From: Summers, James B. II <jsummers < at > ou.edu>
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Subject: [Bacula-users] Backing Up Windows 7 with VSS
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Hello All,
I am attempting to backup a win7 64-bit machine. It is using VSS as needed and the backup runs with no errors or warnings. The problem I have encountered is that there is an Outlook .ost file that is about 4GB in size. When I was looking at the files that were backed up using bconsole and restore, the filename is prefixed with a "~" and the given a ".tmp" extension. After I mark that file and then use estimate it says 1 file to restore, 5,832,704 bytes. Which is definitely not the right size.
I see in the messages:
JobId 143: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS Vista", Drive(s)="C"
and several:
JobId 143: VSS Writer (BackupComplete):
and that the fd and sd backed up and wrote about 85GB.
I am not sure why the oct file did not get backed up correctly?
Ideas?
Thanks,
jim
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