16.1. Planning for Disaster Recovery
Planning for disaster recovery in Configuration Manager 2007 is not complicated, but as you'll see in the section "Recovering Configuration Manager," it is a bit different than it was in SMS 2003. With that in mind, you should consider the following when you are planning to set up your backup and recovery plans for your Configuration Manager hierarchy.
The Configuration Manager backup task uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which is a part of Windows Server 2003 and is configured during the installation of Configuration Manager, to make its backup snapshots. Microsoft describes VSS as "a framework which facilitates communication between applications, storage subsystems, and storage management applications ...
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