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Introduction

Arcserve Backup is a comprehensive storage solution for applications, databases, distributed servers, and file systems. It provides backup and restore capabilities for databases, business-critical applications, and network clients.

Among the agents Arcserve Backup offers is the Arcserve Backup Agent for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service.

Using the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) feature provided with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012, Arcserve Backup backs up open files using the VSS point-in-time backup feature. Applications and large VSS-aware databases can also be backed up, ensuring transactional consistency during the backup process.