Requestors

The Requestor is a piece of software (typically a backup application) responsible for the following tasks:

• Initiating the request for a VSS backup
• Processing the backup instructions from the Writers, including which files are selected for backup and the methods that should be used to back up those files
• Backing up the shadow copy data to media
• Signaling the completion of the backup by deleting the shadow copy data from the disk

Arcserve Backup is designed to function as the Requestor in VSS backups.