{"id":1639,"date":"2009-11-02T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhargavs.com\/index.php\/exchange-server\/exchange-2007-exchange-server\/2009\/11\/logs-not-truncated-after-vss-backup-in-exchange-2007-sp2-or-exchange-2010\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:56:15","slug":"logs-not-truncated-after-vss-backup-in-exchange-2007-sp2-or-exchange-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhargavs.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/02\/logs-not-truncated-after-vss-backup-in-exchange-2007-sp2-or-exchange-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Logs not truncated after VSS Backup in Exchange 2007 SP2 or Exchange 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Release of Exchange 2007 SP2 brought much awaited feature \u2013 VSS Backups!<\/p>\n<p>This was exciting. 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