12.5 Build 10330 : Where is the VSS option gone?
Hey there,
I did a clean reainstall and changed my 12.5 9010 to 12.5 Build 10330 (HF3.1).
I´m now wondering what happened with the VSS options.
My "Default backup options" are set in the following way:
Build 9010:
Build 10330:
You see: They are the same.
Now I tried to create a new backup plan from the scratch.
Therefore I created a bunch of screenshots of the settings in the old syste and try to do the same setings....well....The VSS page in Build 9010 of a plan looked like that:
And in 10330 this page looks like:
?!?!?!?
Where are the radio buttons to select ?
The plan is a Disk/Volume backup.....
Any ideas ?
S.

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In reply to I now had a chat with… by truwrikodrorow…

Hello Sven,
thank you for your posting.
Indeed, starting from U3 the radio buttons for selection of VSS providers in individual backup-plans was removed.
I will pass your feedback to our development.
If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
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Hi,
I'd like to add some comments here:
In our practice there were quite a lot of incidents where improper choice of VSS provider caused backup malfunction and thus frustration. The "automatic" selection choice always fixed such issues - the logics behind it is the following: first detect VSS providers applicable to backed up volume -> first try hardware VSS provider if present -> next try software VSS providers (Microsoft VSS Provider) -> next use Acronis VSS Provider (in most cases it's not used). Therefore in Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 3 our original intention was to leave "automatic" VSS provider selection always enabled in GUI, and for backward compatibility add ability to make custom VSS provider choice through custom patches (which is required very very rarely as we thought).
However after getting feedback from our customers we've discovered that forcible usage of specific VSS provider is not that rare as we believed, so we are going to return the option in Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 4 and Acronis Data Cloud starting from v7.8 (which is in Beta currently).
Thank you.
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