Today Altaro posted a great article about VSS Crash-Consistent vs. Application-Consistent VSS Backups. In this first blogpost the Crash-Consistant Backups are compared to Application-Consistant VSS Backups.
http://www.altaro.com/blog/vss-crash-consistent-vs-application-consistent-vss-backups-post-1-of-2/
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