Introducing Arcserve Backup Agents and Options › Using Agents › Agent for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service › Performing Backups › Backup Options › File System Backup Options

File System Backup Options

The File System Backup fields let you specify how you want Arcserve Backup to handle open files during file system backups. These options do not affect Writers and Components.

• Use VSS: Select this option to direct Arcserve Backup to use VSS to back up open files. If this option is not selected, VSS support is not used and the Agent for Open Files (if available) is used to handle open files. If the Agent for Open Files is not available and Use VSS is not selected, a traditional backup is performed. However, the backup will be marked as incomplete if there are any open files that cannot be backed up.
• Revert to traditional backup if VSS fails: Select this option to direct Arcserve Backup to execute a traditional backup if an attempt to create a VSS backup fails. If the Agent for Open Files is available, it is used to handle open files if this option is selected and the VSS backup fails. If this option is not selected and the VSS backup fails, the backup job fails.