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Steviebone
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 Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:25 am Post subject: vss, network permissions for Windows folders |
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I am trying to keep the vvengine/vversa profiles centralized for the network. This means that I am trying to backup system folders across the network. I have two problems:
1) vss cannot be initiated for a network machine/share right? only works for the local machine
2) what permissions can I safely give the windows system folders on the source network shares to allow transfer of these files? I know that without vss many of these files may trigger open errors anyway... Is there a way to safely transfer these files?
Only work around I can think of is to use an imaging program or a local copy of vv on these machines to copy these folders elsewhere on the target machine first, then copy these folders to the backup storage from the centralized vv server.
I know I could simply run profiles from each of these machines locally but it makes organization and maintenance of the backup strategy unnecessarily complex and distributed.
Ok, I'll shut up now... I know I've posted alot of questions today!   |
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Hi,
| Quote: | 1) vss cannot be initiated for a network machine/share right? only works for the local machine
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Correct, it's a limitation of the Windows Volume Shadow functionality.
| Quote: | 2) what permissions can I safely give the windows system folders on the source network shares to allow transfer of these files? I know that without vss many of these files may trigger open errors anyway... Is there a way to safely transfer these files?
Only work around I can think of is to use an imaging program or a local copy of vv on these machines to copy these folders elsewhere on the target machine first, then copy these folders to the backup storage from the centralized vv server.
I know I could simply run profiles from each of these machines locally but it makes organization and maintenance of the backup strategy unnecessarily complex and distributed |
Yes, you could create an image locally and then have ViceVersa working out of that. Or is it possible to schedule the creation of a shadow copy on the local machine and then have ViceVersa work out of that shadow copy? e.g. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779652%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
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Steviebone
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| Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the links, interesting reading... I will assimilate this good information and test the idea... get back here after |
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