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Hi guys -

Is there an easy way to disable the Veritas Snapshot for Windows
feature (not that I want to, but the Windows admins want it off of their
servers)? From what I have read over the weekend, it looks like this is an
integral piece of the backup process and cannot be disabled. However, the
'leftover' files are not getting deleted and they are 'crashing' servers.
Of course, this is because the C: drives only have 4G total, and they are
getting full, and so they want to delete these files first.

The leftover files are the _vxfiVspCacheFile_2.tmp files that are on
each volume... And sometimes they get left behind, probably when a backup
job fails, is interrupted, or cancelled. This seems to happen quite a bit
in our environment which needs a bit of coaxing right now. Is there an easy
way to delete these files as well? Stopping the NBU service and trying to
delete it doesn't work, and it doesn't appear that there are any processes
that have it open.

Thanks!

Jennifer

--- Jennifer Hooper <jennifer.hooper < at > peregrine.com>
wrote:

Hi guys -

Is there an easy way to disable the Veritas
Snapshot for Windows
feature (not that I want to, but the Windows admins
want it off of their
servers)? From what I have read over the weekend,
it looks like this is an
integral piece of the backup process and cannot be
disabled. However, the
'leftover' files are not getting deleted and they
are 'crashing' servers.
Of course, this is because the C: drives only have
4G total, and they are
getting full, and so they want to delete these files
first.

The leftover files are the _vxfiVspCacheFile_2.tmp
files that are on
each volume... And sometimes they get left behind,
probably when a backup
job fails, is interrupted, or cancelled. This seems
to happen quite a bit
in our environment which needs a bit of coaxing
right now. Is there an easy
way to delete these files as well? Stopping the NBU
service and trying to
delete it doesn't work, and it doesn't appear that
there are any processes
that have it open.

Thanks!

Jennifer
you can do it in the registry of the client or from
the admin gui. in the admin gui go to host
properties->clients-> and open up the windows client.
look for the windows client entry and expand that.
highlight the vsp entry and theres a check box to turn
it off.

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Hi Jenifer,

You can exclude client drives from VSP (version 5) by adding drives to the
VSP volume exclude list in the client properties.



From: Jennifer Hooper <jennifer.hooper < at > peregrine.com>
To: veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Snapshot Feature
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:56:09 -0800

Hi guys -

Is there an easy way to disable the Veritas Snapshot for Windows
feature (not that I want to, but the Windows admins want it off of their
servers)? From what I have read over the weekend, it looks like this is an
integral piece of the backup process and cannot be disabled. However, the
'leftover' files are not getting deleted and they are 'crashing' servers.
Of course, this is because the C: drives only have 4G total, and they are
getting full, and so they want to delete these files first.

The leftover files are the _vxfiVspCacheFile_2.tmp files that are on
each volume... And sometimes they get left behind, probably when a backup
job fails, is interrupted, or cancelled. This seems to happen quite a bit
in our environment which needs a bit of coaxing right now. Is there an
easy
way to delete these files as well? Stopping the NBU service and trying to
delete it doesn't work, and it doesn't appear that there are any processes
that have it open.

Thanks!

Jennifer

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Sent: Mon Jan 17 11:56:09 2005
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Veritas Snapshot Feature

Hi guys -

Is there an easy way to disable the Veritas Snapshot for Windows
feature (not that I want to, but the Windows admins want it off of their
servers)? From what I have read over the weekend, it looks like this is an
integral piece of the backup process and cannot be disabled. However, the
'leftover' files are not getting deleted and they are 'crashing' servers.
Of course, this is because the C: drives only have 4G total, and they are
getting full, and so they want to delete these files first.

The leftover files are the _vxfiVspCacheFile_2.tmp files that are on
each volume... And sometimes they get left behind, probably when a backup
job fails, is interrupted, or cancelled. This seems to happen quite a bit
in our environment which needs a bit of coaxing right now. Is there an easy
way to delete these files as well? Stopping the NBU service and trying to
delete it doesn't work, and it doesn't appear that there are any processes
that have it open.

Thanks!

Jennifer