Volume Shadow Copy question....

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Max Burke

Would anyone like to tell me why the Volume Shadow Copy Service needs
to access the Internet when it runs during backups?

My hard drives aren't on the internet after all..... ;-)

Zone Alarm blocks it, BTW
 
Hi Max,

VSS (the Volume Shadow Copy Service) is actually connecting only to
the local machine IP address. On Windows XP, it does this to enumerate
the SQL Server/MSDE databases on the machine (part of the reason is
that the snapshot must contain a consistent copy of these database
files).

ZoneAlarm mistakenly interprets the TCP/IP connection above as an
attempt to connect to the Internet. In reality, the connection is to
the same machine.

Thanks, Adi

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