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Re-enable VSS in the default global policy #3636

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mxk opened this issue Feb 7, 2024 · 2 comments
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Re-enable VSS in the default global policy #3636

mxk opened this issue Feb 7, 2024 · 2 comments

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mxk commented Feb 7, 2024

Background: #3543 (comment)

From what I can tell, everything is currently stable with the fixes in #3625 and #3629. Is that correct? If so, I would propose restoring when-available global policy default, and disabling VSS for individual tests that are sensitive to snapshot creation time (or maybe for all tests via testenv.NewCLITest?). I think Kopia should use VSS on Windows by default with it has the necessary permissions.

@jkowalski @julio-lopez @aaron-kasten @Shrekster What are your thoughts?

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Can we leave VSS off by default? Given how new the feature is, I don't think people should be forced to opt out but rather opt in.

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mxk commented Mar 26, 2024

It's opt-in for the current release. A proper implementation should be completely transparent to the operation of Kopia, and many people have already been using it for a long time via the PowerShell scripts that do effectively the same thing. I can't think of any cases where it would be preferable to create backups of a live file system rather than an immutable snapshot, so I think the default should eventually be switched to when-available.

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