I think I saw Oracle mentioned earlier, this has some info about the VSS integration. It's called 'Oracle VSS Writer': https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NTQ

I think I saw Oracle mentioned earlier, this has some info about the VSS integration. It's called 'Oracle VSS Writer': https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NTQRF/vss.htm#BEIJJCAE https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NTQRF/vss.htm#BEIJJCAE I guess MS-SQL does something similar, and that does seem useful beyond what LVM does. Also VSS apparently can offload the snapshotting to a SAN ('VSS Hardware Provider'): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/volume-shadow-copy-service https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file...