VSS in home version of Vista

NTFSD
1

I have read in several places that the three home versions of Vista do not
include VSS.

I have a consumer-based backup product that produces temporary shadows in
order to do its job. This would be a disaster for my product. Is there any
chance that the lack of VSS in these products just means they just pulled
persistent snapshots (like they did in XP SP2) and that my temporary ones
will still work?

If they remove all VSS from home versions then they are removing a feature
that already existed in XP SP2, which is a big step backwards. I didn’t
think Microsoft would do something to put me out of business like this.

Also, wouldn’t this cripple all decent backup software for all home users?
Non-crash-consistent backups are virtually useless.

2

Vista Ultimate has VSS for sure.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: “Mark Hahn”
Newsgroups: ntfsd
To: “Windows File Systems Devs Interest List”
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:58 PM
Subject: [ntfsd] VSS in home version of Vista

> I have read in several places that the three home versions of Vista do not
> include VSS.
>
> I have a consumer-based backup product that produces temporary shadows in
> order to do its job. This would be a disaster for my product. Is there any
> chance that the lack of VSS in these products just means they just pulled
> persistent snapshots (like they did in XP SP2) and that my temporary ones
> will still work?
>
> If they remove all VSS from home versions then they are removing a feature
> that already existed in XP SP2, which is a big step backwards. I didn’t
> think Microsoft would do something to put me out of business like this.
>
> Also, wouldn’t this cripple all decent backup software for all home users?
> Non-crash-consistent backups are virtually useless.
>
>
>
> —
> Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17
>
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3

VSS is present in all versions of Vista client. Note that System
Restore in Vista is now based on Volume SnapShots and it does work even
on basic home systems.

Neal Christiansen
Microsoft File System Filter Group Lead
This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no
Rights

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Mark Hahn
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:58 AM
To: Windows File Systems Devs Interest List
Subject: [ntfsd] VSS in home version of Vista

I have read in several places that the three home versions of Vista do
not
include VSS.

I have a consumer-based backup product that produces temporary shadows
in
order to do its job. This would be a disaster for my product. Is there
any
chance that the lack of VSS in these products just means they just
pulled
persistent snapshots (like they did in XP SP2) and that my temporary
ones
will still work?

If they remove all VSS from home versions then they are removing a
feature
that already existed in XP SP2, which is a big step backwards. I
didn’t
think Microsoft would do something to put me out of business like this.

Also, wouldn’t this cripple all decent backup software for all home
users?
Non-crash-consistent backups are virtually useless.

Questions? First check the IFS FAQ at
https://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=17

You are currently subscribed to ntfsd as: xxxxx@windows.microsoft.com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to xxxxx@lists.osr.com

4

>VSS is present in all versions of Vista client. Note that System

Restore in Vista is now based on Volume SnapShots

…so is CHKDSK I think.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com