Introducing CA ARCserve Backup Agents and Options › Using Agents › Agent for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service › Introducing VSS Support › Introduction

Introduction

CA 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 CA ARCserve Backup offers is the CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service.

Using the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) feature provided with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft Windows XP, CA ARCserve Backup enables you to take advantage of the point-in-time backup feature of VSS that allows open files to be backed up. Applications and large VSS-aware databases can also be backed up, ensuring transactional consistency during the backup process.