HP 7450 Application Software Suite Microsoft SQL Media LTU manual Recovery Manager Layout

2.Volume Shadow Copy service communicates with SQL Writer on the Microsoft SQL Server to flush the current log files to disk and suspend any writes to the transaction log files and to the database file. However, HP 3PAR VSS Software allows read-only access so the client can access any data that is already in the SQL Server database.

3.Volume Shadow Copy service communicates with the provider to initiate the shadow copy process for the disk volumes that contain the Microsoft SQL Server data.

4.HP 3PAR VSS Software then communicates with the writers and providers to start creating the shadow copy. The provider actually creates the shadow copy.

The shadow copy typically takes less than a minute.

5.After the shadow copy is created, Volume Shadow Copy service communicates with the Microsoft SQL Server with MSDE writer or SQL writer to indicate that it can resume writing to disk.

6.The queues of the SQL transactions are written to the logs.

The shadow copy is now available to the requestor for backing up.

Recovery Manager Layout

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