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[Veritas-bu] To use or not to use VSP?

2005-09-29 03:53:00
Subject: [Veritas-bu] To use or not to use VSP?
From: rolfcolmer AT hotmail DOT com (Rolf C)
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:53:00 +0000
This whitepaper is talking about _vxfivspcache*.tmp but when you check the 
actual file it's _vxfivspcache*.vsp? Which one to exclude?


>From: "Anthony Tocco" <ttocco AT colltech DOT com>
>To: "Chapman, Scott" <Scott.Chapman AT icbc DOT com>,   "Piszcz, Justin" 
><jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com>,   <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] To use or not to use VSP?
>Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:57:56 -0500
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>http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/269558.htm
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>________________________________
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>From: Chapman, Scott [mailto:Scott.Chapman AT icbc DOT com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:42 PM
>To: Tocco, Anthony; Piszcz, Justin; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] To use or not to use VSP?
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>
>Any chance someone might have this whitepaper?
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>Justin, it has been my experience that VSP is virtually useless for
>regular file based backups . . . that said I don't think there is anyway
>to get around it's use for flashbackup clients.  For the most part that
>is the only time I use VSP on my windows clients, and I turn off VSP for
>any clients that complain about not enough diskspace or if I happen to
>be looking at the client properties for a client and it is turned on . .
>.
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>One thing that I found interesting when using VSP with flashbackup is
>that you have to specify VSP because the windows client will use VSS if
>you have to policy snapshot set to auto.
>
>____________________________________________________________
>Scott Chapman
>Insurance Corporation of British Columbia - Victoria
>ph: 250.414.7650  cell: 250.213.9295
>
>       -----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 Anthony
>Tocco
>       Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:46 AM
>       To: Piszcz, Justin; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>       Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] To use or not to use VSP?
>
>       There is a problem with VSP and virus scanning software there is
>a white paper on this
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>________________________________
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>       From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Piszcz,
>Justin
>       Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:03 PM
>       To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>       Subject: [Veritas-bu] To use or not to use VSP?
>
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>       So I would have to add each client in there and modify it
>appropriately.
>
>       Hm, currently I have the 4.5 clients such as: 50mb/150mb & VSP
>on but disable snapshot and continue.
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>       Overall, is it worth using VSP at all?
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>       All it seems to do is produce errors and fill up the disk, and
>the majority of files it fails for is big databases (30-200GB) that
>cannot be backed up anyway.
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>       The work-around would be to add EACH of 200 clients or so (for
>me) and then tell it to disable the snapshot and retry and then maintain
>the list, etc, with 4.5, everything was set in one place, the client
>host properties.
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>       Calling out to everyone - who uses VSP, is it really useful?
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>       Thanks,
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>       Justin.
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>________________________________
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>
>       From: King, Cheryl [mailto:cheryl.king AT intrado DOT com]
>       Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:58 PM
>       To: Piszcz, Justin
>       Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to turn VSP off with
>NetBackup 5.1?
>
>
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>       Yes, in Host properties->Master, then select the master and go
>to Client Attributes.  Add the client there and don't click Enable
>Windows Open File Backup for this client.
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>________________________________
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>       From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Piszcz,
>Justin
>       Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:14 AM
>       To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>       Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is it possible to turn VSP off with
>NetBackup 5.1?
>
>       Anyone?
>



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