Disk Conditions; Volume Management Methods And Management Files - Fujitsu ETERNUS VSS Hardware Provider 2.1 User Manual

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Chapter 1 ETERNUS VSS Hardware Provider
1.3 Operational Procedure
When VSSHP is installed in a host OS that controls the Hyper-V setting, VSSHP supports backup
processes. In this case, only a guest OS disk on the host OS is used as the target for backup pro-
cesses.
Backup processes for Local Copy Configuration and Transportable Copy Configuration are not
supported when VSSHP is installed in a guest OS that uses the Hyper-V setting.
1.3.2

Disk Conditions

The following conditions apply for source disks to be used for backup.
MBR and GPT can be used for the partition format.
A dynamic disk cannot be used. When it is used, operation is not guaranteed.
1.3.3

Volume Management Methods and Management Files

One of the following management files is created according to the management method for the Shadow
Copy destination volume.
Target disk pool management file
"installation folder"\etc\vss\bkdskpl.mng
Copy set management file
"installation folder"\etc\vss\copyset.cnv
Unnecessary management files may exist due to a reason such as when the management method or
the server configuration is changed.
To delete unnecessary management files that may cause malfunction, refer to the following table and
delete any of these files if they exist.
Target disk pool operation
Copy set operation
T: Target disk pool management file
C: Copy set management file
—: No management files are created
Local configuration
T
C
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Transportable configuration
Production server
C
Backup server
T
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