Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error
2011-06-08 11:17:39
Hey Bob, it's not FUD. VSP has been problematic
since, I don't know, 4.5? It would fail to release the lock on the file
and therefore you would end up with GB files filling up the filesystems
which sometimes required a reboot to be able to delete. It didn't happen
consistently, but it was frequent enough to cause problems on those systems
so at my previous job we moved away from it.
I agree with you that MS took too long
to come out with VSS. But now that VSS is around and works very well (most
of the time), there is no reason for VSP.
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> I would agree! VSP is dire!! Ignore it. I can
say that in all my 11+
> years in NBU, I turned it off !
I have to throw the BS flag here. That's just FUD.
Until Microsoft finally came up with VSS in w2k3, the OS vendor
provided *zero* tools for open file backups. Veritas had been filling
that void since... what, 3.2 c. 1999 or so? OTM (pre 4.5fp6) and
the
Veritas-written replacement, VSP, functioning in the horribly flaky
world of Microsoft device drivers, do a pretty good job of getting a
consistent version of write-locked files that the OS won't otherwise
allow to be read. The admin had to do his part--configure VSP, have
the snap space and not let his PC's antivirus program lock the snaps.
And while I'm being bitchy, are there more than three people left on
this mailing list WITH THE COURTESY TO EFFING TRIM THEIR 400-LINE
REPLIES?
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