The Enterprise Server Edition (ESE) uses VSS to back up components that support it, e.g. SQL Server.

By default, ESE will perform a full VSS backup.

The VSS backup types supported by the ESE are:

  • FULL (default)
  • INCREMENTAL
  • DIFFERENTIAL
  • LOG
  • COPY

Note: For a full description of VSS backup types, refer to this article.

To change the default VSS behaviour of your ESE Agent:

  1. In your ESE installation folder, open the a5backup.properties file (usually located within C:\Program Files).
  2. Edit the line containing the option "vss.backup.type" set to the types listed above. (Add the line if it doesn't exist.)
    Example:
    vss.backup.type=COPY
  3. Save the file.
  4. Stop and then?restart the Agent's Windows service.