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Best Practices

This chapter provides information about making the best use of the agent and Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to handle the backup of open files. It gives a comparison of the agent with the VSS feature and provides specific recommendations for their use in backup jobs.

This section contains the following topics:

The Agent and VSS

Using the Agent to Handle Open Files

Backing up a Small Amount of Data on a Large Volume