If you go into Host Properties -> Master Servers
Then select your master -> right click -> Properties
Then Select "Client Attributes"

If you added a client name in there, you will get all the options...to
use VSP vs. VSS, to enable, disable, fail or continue on VSP failure,
etc, etc.

As an additional data point....seems mine always stall during the System
State backup...

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Williams, Kristopher L
> Sent: March 11, 2005 8:27 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB5.0MP3 on Sol8 with Win2003 
> clients.. backups stalling
> 
> 
>  
> All,
> 
> 
> I decided to do a little test last night. I changed one of my policies
> to be standard instead of MS-WindowsNT. (Keep in mind all my 
> clients are
> Windows boxes). By changing it to standard, that disables VSP 
> on all of
> those clients in that policy because the standard type policy does not
> make any calls to VSP.
> 
> None of the jobs in that policy slowed down or hung!!
> 
> I still had some hung jobs like normal, but not nearly as 
> many and they
> were all in other policies. I checked the output of bpps <client> and
> found a bunch of hung bpbkar32 and bpfis (vsp) processes on each hung
> client. This sounds to me like VSP is the issue here.
> 
> Someone mentioned using the bpclient command to disable VSP, 
> but I could
> not get it to work. I kept getting a "no entity found" error no matter
> how I tried using the command. Does anyone know of another way to
> disable VSP? I guess I could make all my policies standard, but there
> must be another way.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:01 PM
> To: Asher Akhtar
> Cc: Paul Keating; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NB5.0MP3 on Sol8 with Win2003 clients..
> backups stalling
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:08:50AM -0500, Asher Akhtar wrote:
> > I have had similar experiences with 5.x on Windows clients.  
> > 
> > It turned out to be VSP causing the jobs to hang.  After I disabled 
> > VSP on the problematic clients, the jobs didn't hang and 
> finished with
> 
> > status code "1".
> 
> In one of my cases, the client was VMS which doesn't support VSP.  It
> also didn't hang - it just slowed down.  It was still pushing 
> data, but
> much slower than before.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 
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