I have noticed a few things that are concerning to me, but before applying changes I was hoping to get an answer as to the reason why they are configured as such.
My backup (Windows Server Backup), is configured to utilize a dedicated device as the target with VSS Full Backup. The device shows up in Disk Manager ,everything seems fine. However, when I examine the Shadow Copies property for my volumes, I see that this device (listed only by its' GUID), has had VSS enabled on it, with "no limits" applied.
Is this normal?
Is Windows Server Backup using that VSS space on the dedicated drive to store incremental versions of my backup policy or of the drive itself?
If I put limits on VSS policy for the dedicated drive, will this affect the total number of historical archives of the backup schedule or just the changes to the drive itself? If it only affects the backup incremental, how do I calculate how many?
Also, since the default VSS copy schedule is applied, "if" the schedule for it's VSS process conflicts with the backup schedule.. I may see problems?