[Veritas-bu] VSS

Has anyone else experienced significant slowdown of backups using VSS?

Our environment is 5.1 MP6 running on Suse 9.2 Linux and HPUX 11.11 with W2k3 or Suse 9.2 Linux media servers.

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George Herbert|Platform Solutions - Storage Solutions|SunTrust Banks

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:19 AM
To: 'Ed Wilts'; Major, Rusty
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP in 6.x

VSS is fine for Win2k3, but you will need VSP for earlier versions of windows.

Common issue the old cache... there are tools to use to "remove" the lock, which is very simple to do. Sysinternals is worth a look around.

I have used the standard install, and to be honest not had that many issues with large cache files. Again, there are documents to tune this, or if you want, simply turn it off.

The snap shot option is there for a reason - again, rather than turn off, check to see what it can offer your environment.

Thanks

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator

EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
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Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:53 PM
To: Major, Rusty
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP in 6.x

Use VSS, not VSP and you won't have the issues in 6.0. We've instructed our Windows admins to always do a custom install and disable the VSS installation and let Windows do the snapshots. No more cache files.

Now getting the Windows admins to actually follow the installation instructions and do a custom install - that's a challenge all by itself. Whenever they complain to us (Storage) about a large cache file, we tell them to read the install docs and get it right this time.

.../Ed

On 10/29/07, Major, Rusty <RMajor AT vericenter DOT com> wrote:

Has NBU 6.0 or 6.5 fixed the issue with the VSP Cache file becoming locked and not cleaning up after itself? This remains a common problem for me in 5.1 so we try not to use it.

Thanks,

Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP

Sr. Data Assurance Engineer

(281) 584-4693

VeriCenter, Inc.

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