Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator

EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:22 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP in 6.x

If I'm not mistaken VSS is only available on Windows 2003.  Windows 2000 users are kind of up the creek.  If you want the software installed the same way every time I'd recommend creating a .mst or modifying Symantec's .msi so it can only be installed one way.  Software deployment FTW. =)  I've found with 200+ windows machines that its only certain boxes that have trouble with VSP files and for those I either disable VSP on the master or switch to VSS if Windows 2003.  I think its 6 servers right now.  That's not bad for 200+.  As far as disabling VSP all together, I'd rather have more Windows 2000 files backed up via VSP and deal with the headaches when it infrequently breaks, than turn it off altogether and miss all that data all the time.

 

-Jonathan

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:53 PM
To: Major, Rusty
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP in 6.x

Use VSS, not VSP and you won't have the issues in 6.0.  We've instructed our Windows admins to always do a custom install and disable the VSS installation and let Windows do the snapshots.  No more cache files.

Now getting the Windows admins to actually follow the installation instructions and do a custom install - that's a challenge all by itself.  Whenever they complain to us (Storage) about a large cache file, we tell them to read the install docs and get it right this time.

   .../Ed

On 10/29/07, Major, Rusty <RMajor AT vericenter DOT com> wrote:

Has NBU 6.0 or 6.5 fixed the issue with the VSP Cache file becoming locked and not cleaning up after itself? This remains a common problem for me in 5.1 so we try not to use it.

 

Thanks,

 

Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP

Sr. Data Assurance Engineer

(281) 584-4693

VeriCenter, Inc.

 

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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