We have many SQL 2008 R2 instances running on Windows Servers (2008 R2 and 2012 R2). When we take a normal snapshot that quiesce's the guest file system, it logs messages in the Event Viewer that it is backed up every database. I would expect this if we were actually doing application/DB level backups; however, all we are doing is taking a VMware level snap (Example: before we patch the server we take a snapshot)
Event ID 3197: I/O is frozen on database msdb. No user action is required. However, if I/O is not resumed promptly, you could cancel the backup.
Event ID 3198: I/O was resumed on database msdb. No user action is required.
Event ID 18264: Database backed up. Database: msdb, creation date(time): 2010/04/02(17:35:08), pages dumped: 4075, first LSN: 5306:704:64, last LSN: 5306:744:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=VIRTUAL_DEVICE: {'{D923871B-4D87-4CBF-BAC3-A10B8AEBBA1F}2'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
As aforesaid, it logs these events for every database on this system. Anybody make sense of this?
Karl