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Can I safely disable VSS Writer?

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I'm running SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard on several Windows Server 2008 machines. I perform my backups using SQL Server to save my BAK and TRN files to a dedicated backup drive.

Recently, we installed some 3rd party software on one of these servers that seems to be triggering VSS shadow copies for some reason. Every 2 hours, it's locking all databases for 4-5 minutes and no one can use them. Obviously, this is unacceptable.

Am I safe to just disable this service? As far as I've read, you only need it enabled if you have 3rd party applications that are reaching in and performing your backups. I'm doing everything from within SQL Server.

If that is the case, I'll probably go through all of my servers and disable that service. We use SQL Server to perform database backups, and some Symantec backup software to perform other standard file backups to tape.

Thanks a million in advance!
Nov 14 '11 #1
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