Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification About Open File Backups

Look at the windows app event logs

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Randy Samora
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:16 AM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification About Open File Backups

I apologize for saying “VSP”, let’s pretend I didn’t. What’s the quickest/easiest way to determine if a backup used VSS or not on a Windows server?

From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:10 AM
To: Ed Wilts; Randy Samora
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Clarification About Open File Backups

Ed, you seem to be asserting that a client with vsp.sys present will use it, despite configuration to the contrary done in the client DB on the master.

I think that's incorrect.

Is that actually what you meant to say?

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gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:59 PM
To: Randy Samora
Cc: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification About Open File Backups

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Randy Samora <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com> wrote:

I want to verify that I don't have to anything at the Windows OS level to allow NetBackup to use VSS on that client so I'm going to change the settings on one client and leave them as is on another. What's the easiest way to verify that they are both still using VSP?

If VSP.SYS exists in system32\drivers (I think - double-check that location), then VSP gets used. Uninstall the client, reboot, and re-install the client without VSP using a custom install.

Be aware that in some rare cases, the system may not come up after VSP is uninstalled. Some people have seen this multiple times (lucky me) and some people have never seen it.

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

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