Hi Jenifer,

You can exclude client drives from VSP (version 5) by adding drives to the 
VSP volume exclude list in the client properties.



>From: Jennifer Hooper <jennifer.hooper AT peregrine DOT com>
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Snapshot Feature
>Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:56:09 -0800
>
>Hi guys -
>
>       Is there an easy way to disable the Veritas Snapshot for Windows
>feature (not that I want to, but the Windows admins want it off of their
>servers)?  From what I have read over the weekend, it looks like this is an
>integral piece of the backup process and cannot be disabled.  However, the
>'leftover' files are not getting deleted and they are 'crashing' servers.
>Of course, this is because the C: drives only have 4G total, and they are
>getting full, and so they want to delete these files first.
>
>       The leftover files are the _vxfiVspCacheFile_2.tmp files that are on
>each volume... And sometimes they get left behind, probably when a backup
>job fails, is interrupted, or cancelled.  This seems to happen quite a bit
>in our environment which needs a bit of coaxing right now.  Is there an 
>easy
>way to delete these files as well?  Stopping the NBU service and trying to
>delete it doesn't work, and it doesn't appear that there are any processes
>that have it open.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jennifer
>
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