Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] McaFee Anti-Virus exclusions for NBU 6.5.1

2008-05-19 11:26:09
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] McaFee Anti-Virus exclusions for NBU 6.5.1
From: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
To: "Ed Wilts" <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:58:27 +0100
Ed
Sort of disagree, because I have it scripted to stop the service and restart after. And worse case, you can use schedule task to shutdown the service during the backup and restart say 12 hours later.
 
All it does is help prove where the problem may lie in this case for the originator.
 
Also, Symantec when troubleshooting backups always (always!) insist that AV is turned off during a backup.
 
Simon


From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:36 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: John Coleman; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] McaFee Anti-Virus exclusions for NBU 6.5.1

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:55 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:
how about scripting the service to stop when the backup starts and re-starts when the backup completes.
 
There's simply no good way to do that.  With multi-threaded backups and weird and wonderful ways of NetBackup to fail, you can't guarantee that the service will be restarted again.
 
That is also complicated, of course, by the fact that you'd have no virus protection while backups are running.  You want to ensure that the backup process itself isn't impacted by the scanning, but you don't want to turn scanning off (alternatively, shut down the file serving instead!).
 
   .../Ed

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