Re: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: VSP Files

Not to disagree with Ed, but I've got better than 100 Windows 2003 clients installed without this issue, including the aforementioned x64-bit.

-Jonathan

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: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:05 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: VSP Files

That technote describes how you may delete the VSP file but you may still get a nasty surprise the next time you upgrade the client.

EVERY time you go to upgrade a Windows 2003 client with VSP installed, you risk having your system not boot when it tries to come back up. All it takes is to do an uninstall and a reboot and you could be in for a world of hurt. The technote on this (not the one referenced below) suggests that it's only x64 clients with a specific version of the client but we've seen it at least twice with 32-bit clients. You need to be prepared for a recovery from this case when you do your uninstall. After you bluescreen is not the time to start your planning :-)

If you're deploying clients on Windows 2003, do NOT do a typical install or you may be vulnerable to this. ALWAYS, ALWAYS do a custom install and deselect VSP.

.../Ed

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From: Michael Graff Andersen <mian71 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Feb 7, 2008 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VSP Files
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu

Sometimes this technote
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/270127.htm does the trick

Regards
Michael

2008/2/7, amure1 <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>:

>
> Hi I have searched this forum for help with locked VSP files and am a little bit more confused that when I started..
>
>
> I'm using 2003 Servers with no 2000 servers in the domain and from what you guys are saying i should have VSS files not VSP?!?
>
> The servers were not upgraded from 2000 and were a clean install to 2003 & I'm using NB 6.0MP5.
>
> Well the question I got is how do I change these files to VSS as from what I gathered from the posts these don't fill up the drives and if they do what other options do I have..
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcus :D

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

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