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
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:53 PM To: Major, Rusty Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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