On Thursday 14 April 2005 15:09, Wayne T Smith wrote:
> A generally accepted workaround is to add the pair of files to either
> Windows or NetBackup's list of files to be excluded from backup.
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>    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839090

Thanks for the info and link, it explained what the qmgr files do.

Someone replied off the list, that I should configure VSP(Volume Snapshot 
Provider). As far as I can tell VSP is used to backup open files. The idea 
being I don't need to maintain sets of exclude lists, because netbackup can 
just backup the open files. This all sounds wonderfull. The the problem is I 
thought I had it enabled all ready.

On the client side of things there is no mention of it at all. From the server 
bpclient seems to think its switched on.

# bpclient -client windowsbox -L
Client Name: windowsbox
 Current Host:
        Hostname: windowsbox
        IP Address: 0.0.0.0
 Connect on non-reserved port:  no
 No call-back connections:      no
 Dynamic Address:       no
 Free Browse:   Allow
 List Restore:  Not Specified
 Max Jobs This Client:  Not Specified
 WOFB Enabled:  yes
 WOFB FIM:      VSP
 WOFB Usage:    Individual Drive Snapshot
 WOFB Error Control:    Abort on Error

But I still get problems like:-
# bperror | awk '{if ($6 == 7069) print}' | grep WRN | head -1
1113788385 1 4 8 netbackupserver 7069 7068 0 sqlserver bpbrm from client 
windowsbox: WRN - can't open file: C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr0.dat (WIN32 32: 
Unknown error)

Have I actually configured VSP? Is there a way to test it?

Regards
-- 
Tom