Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

Hey Bob, it's not FUD. VSP has been problematic since, I don't know, 4.5? It would fail to release the lock on the file and therefore you would end up with GB files filling up the filesystems which sometimes required a reboot to be able to delete. It didn't happen consistently, but it was frequent enough to cause problems on those systems so at my previous job we moved away from it.

I agree with you that MS took too long to come out with VSS. But now that VSS is around and works very well (most of the time), there is no reason for VSP.

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Subject	Re: [Veritas-bu] Open file backup error

> I would agree! VSP is dire!! Ignore it. I can say that in all my 11+ > years in NBU, I turned it off ! I have to throw the BS flag here. That's just FUD. Until Microsoft finally came up with VSS in w2k3, the OS vendor provided *zero* tools for open file backups. Veritas had been filling that void since... what, 3.2 c. 1999 or so? OTM (pre 4.5fp6) and the Veritas-written replacement, VSP, functioning in the horribly flaky world of Microsoft device drivers, do a pretty good job of getting a consistent version of write-locked files that the OS won't otherwise allow to be read. The admin had to do his part--configure VSP, have the snap space and not let his PC's antivirus program lock the snaps. And while I'm being bitchy, are there more than three people left on this mailing list WITH THE COURTESY TO EFFING TRIM THEIR 400-LINE REPLIES? _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT eduhttp://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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