The best way to deal with this in my opinion is just go to Master
Server Settings -> Client Attributes and add each client that is a
Windows client and make sure VSP/VSS are disabled.

Justin.

On 3/17/06, william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com> 
wrote:
> Not that I can find, and I asked Symantec support.  We have a problem
> upgrading from 4.5 to 5.1 on Windows.  We had for 4.5 installed VSP (set
> INSTALLVSP=1) in the silentclient.cmd file.   We then set the registry key
> VSP_Use=NO - this is the same as clearing the check box in the client
> configuration in the GUI (at 4.5).  The theory was that if we found we
> needed VSP, it could just be toggled on.
>
> When we upgrade to 5.1, we find that the VSP code is left in situ, whether
> we set INSTALLVSP to 0 or not.   The VSP_Use registry key is no longer
> used.   If there is no client database entry on the Master for the client,
> the command it sends for backups has use_ofb set.   So VSP kicks in.  We
> filled a few disks that way.
>
> I tried renaming VSPAPI.DLL out of the way and sure enough the log reports
> "VSP disabled", but it still tries to do some stuff about cleaning up
> entries using bpfis, which generate some error messages.  Looks as if
> something in a database bpfis maintains is not right.
>
> So the defintive fix seems to be to add client database entries for all
> Windows clients, and set WOFB_Enable=0.  That can be scripted.   We will
> also stop installing VSP!
>
> William D L Brown
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> "Brandon Zermeno" <Brandon.Zermeno AT pulte DOT com>
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> Is there a way to globally disable using VSP? I only know of the client
> attributes on the master server.  Is there a touch file? I am running NBU
> 6mp1 on Windows.
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