Re:Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress
by xeyownt on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:14AM
(#28615077)
VSS is great indeed. Very useful to eg. P2V a machine live, even saving the P2V image on the same drive.
But VSS, like LVM or other snapshoting FS, requires dedicated FS support. You don't have VSS on FAT32. Here, blktrace works at block device level, so does not rely on any FS support.
But VSS, like LVM or other snapshoting FS, requires dedicated FS support. You don't have VSS on FAT32. Here, blktrace works at block device level, so does not rely on any FS support.