I need some advice (about NetWorker!).

Briefly a description of our problem, and the solution our Windows admin has 
come up with
(which I want to see if anyone has done before and if it caused problems).

The Problem is that we have a 4TB data drive (S:\) which we have defined a lot 
of save sets to
get it to use multiple streams to back it up.  This works, but has the side 
effect on the
Windows Server 2008 R2 client, that it is causing the system's VSS snapshots 
for Windows based
recovery to be lost.  After several days on the phone with Microsoft, they are 
blaming
NetWorker (but can't think of any way to gather data that would prove that they 
are correct).

The Solution that our windows admin has come up with is to schedule a daily VSS 
snapshot of the
S:\ drive and mount it as X:\, then we change the NetWorker client definition 
to backup the
X:\<subpath>  save sets and ignore the S:\ drive.  In quick testing, it at 
least backed up - I
haven't seen them test a recovery yet. 

Has anyone else tried (or actively using) this Solution to a lot of VSS 
snapshots of a large
data drive and did/do you have any problems with it?

Thanks,

-- 
Frank Swasey                    | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcs
Sr Systems Administrator        | Always remember: You are UNIQUE,
University of Vermont           |    just like everyone else.
  "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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