Re: [Veritas-bu] McaFee Anti-Virus exclusions for NBU 6.5.1

Folks,

For what it’s worth McAfee is versatile enough to get around most of this. What we do is exclude the nbu folders on the master/media servers. On all the clients there is an advanced setting to not scan files being backed up. So nothing is scanned by the backup. I don’t care about that since we have schedules/settings that scan the servers so there is no need to scan again. We have enough windows servers that we went McAfee ePO so we can set everything centrally.

David Spearman

County of Henrico, va.

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Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 10:58 AM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; John Coleman
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] McaFee Anti-Virus exclusions for NBU 6.5.1

Sort of disagree, because I have it scripted to stop the service and restart after. And worse case, you can use schedule task to shutdown the service during the backup and restart say 12 hours later.

All it does is help prove where the problem may lie in this case for the originator.

Also, Symantec when troubleshooting backups always (always!) insist that AV is turned off during a backup.

Simon

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:36 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: John Coleman; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] McaFee Anti-Virus exclusions for NBU 6.5.1

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:55 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:

how about scripting the service to stop when the backup starts and re-starts when the backup completes.

There's simply no good way to do that. With multi-threaded backups and weird and wonderful ways of NetBackup to fail, you can't guarantee that the service will be restarted again.

That is also complicated, of course, by the fact that you'd have no virus protection while backups are running. You want to ensure that the backup process itself isn't impacted by the scanning, but you don't want to turn scanning off (alternatively, shut down the file serving instead!).

.../Ed

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