I'm having a little difficulty understanding the VS's. First question, if I want to use VSP on a volume that contains 700GB of data, I have to have some place to put the cache file of EQUAL size, correct? If set the maximum cache size to 100GB, the backup will fail, right? I don't understand why Veritas chose 95% of available disk space by default. My MOM alerts would go through the roof from servers going over the threshold of available disk space.
If I want to use VSS, that's a Windows setting and I would have to convince all of the server owners to activate it, correct? Does NetBackup create a new VSS file or are they created on a set schedule and NetBackup just uses the latest one?
Way back when NetBackup was having problems deleting the VSP cache files, I deactivated VSP on all servers and now I'm thinking about turning it back on. Be default, is VSP used? If I install a client and do not add it to the Client Attributes tab of the Master Server, is VSP being used? What's the easiest way to tell?
Thanks,
Randy