Check out the documentation for your servers and clients here:
...and read all you can regarding VSP and VSS.
VSP is by Veritas/Symantec.
VSS is by Microsoft.
Both have their uses and flaws.
VSP can need tweaking on a client by client basis, and there is no "golden" config that suits all.
VSP's biggest problem is that, out of the box (i.e. default mode), it can consume 30GB of disk on any given local volume on a Windows client. The question you have to ask is - do I always have 30GB spare on C across all systems?
Most sites don't.
Hence, my default settings are:
VSP exclude: C
VSP size method: GB (i.e. not percentage based)
VSP initial 500 MB
VSP maximum: 2000 MB (but some clients need 3000, and a very few need 5000 )
VSP busy wait 5 seconds (leave this - do not change it)
VSP busy timeout 30 seconds (reduce from 30 secs)
...these are all client attributes.
There are more settings in the "Client Attributes" tab of the "Master Server Properties" - most notably, setting VSP to "continue on error" and not "fail on error". The default is to "fail on error".
N.B. if you exclude C from VSP, this means two things at the same time - do not use C as a host volume for a VSP cache file, and do not use VSP to try to take an open file backup of the C volume.
I exclude C because I don't want system drives being thrashed with a large amount of writes and reads for other active volumes.
However, excluding C from VSP means you may get more files reported as open/locked. Thus, I also apply a standard list of folder and/or file exclusions to all Windows clients. I have researched into each of these, and they are all safe to exclude at my site - you may want to review these exclusions for your site.
My "exclusion list" notes as follows:
General WIndows Client Exclusions: (Current)
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*.tmp
*:\Recycler
*:\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr*.dat
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Network Associates\BOPDATA\_Date*.dat
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\logs
...and...
C:\WINNT\security\Database\secedit.sdb
C:\WINNT\security\edb.log
C:\WINNT\security\tmp.edb
C:\WINNT\system32\NtmsData
C:\WINNT\system32\Perflib_Perfdata_*.dat
C:\WINNT\system32\wbem\Logs\FrameWork.log
C:\WINNT\Temp
C:\WINNT\Temporary Internet Files
...or...
C:\WINDOWS\security\Database\secedit.sdb
C:\WINDOWS\security\edb.log
C:\WINDOWS\security\edbtmp.log
C:\WINDOWS\security\tmp.edb
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NtmsData
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Perflib_Perfdata_*.dat
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Logs\FrameWork.log
C:\WINDOWS\Temp
C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files
...and occassionally:
C:\Documents and Settings\*\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\Updater\udlog.txt
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Typical default client/database agent/admin console/media server/master servers excludes are:
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
C:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\misc\*
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C:\VSPCache*.VSP ! v4.5 client VSP cache file.
C:\_vxfiVspCacheFile_*.VSP ! v5.1 client VSP cache file.
Other documentation says:
for NBU v4.5 *:\_vxfiVspCacheFile_*.tmp
for NBU v5.1 MP3aS2 *:\_vxfiVspCacheFile_*.VSP
for NBU v6.0 *:\NBU_VSP_Cache\_vxfiVspCacheFile_*.vsp
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For many Windows 2000 servers:
For Windows 2000 DHCP servers:
C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp\dhcp.mdb
C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp\j50.log
C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp\tmp.edb
For Windows 2000 WINS servers:
C:\WINNT\system32\wins\winstmp.mdb
...or...
For Windows 2003 DHCP servers:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dhcp\dhcp.mdb
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dhcp\j50.log
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dhcp\tmp.edb
For Windows 2003 WINS servers:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wins\winstmp.mdb
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Specific Application/Client Exclusions:
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C:\Documents and Settings\*\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outcmd.dat
C:\Documents and Settings\*\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outcmd.dat
*:\User_Home_Shares_*\*\documents\Microsoft\Outlook\outcmd.dat
Citrix Desktop Servers:
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C:\Program Files\Citrix\Citrix Resource Manager\LocalDB\RMLocalDatabase.mdb
Print Server Files:
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C:\WINNT\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.SHD
D:\Spool\Printers\*.SHD
L:\Spool\*.SHD
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Example actual typical exclusions of a TSM Windows client:
exclude *:\...\pagefile.sys
exclude *:\MSDOS.SYS
exclude *:\IO.SYS
exclude *:\boot.ini
exclude *:NTUSER.DAT
exclude *:ntuser.dat.LOG
exclude *:UsrClass.dat
exclude *:UsrClass.dat.LOG
exclude *:AgentResponseMgr.pqf
exclude *:AlertSend.pqf
exclude *:EventCons
exclude *:AgentQueue.pqf
exclude *:EvtCons
exclude *:EvtSend.pqf
exclude *:ExtSubmit.pqf
exclude *:PerfSend.pqf
exclude c:\ctmag\...\Sysout\*.log
exclude *:\...\Catalog.wci\*.000
exclude "c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\*.log"
Exclude *:*.tmp
exclude "*:\...\system32\perflib*.dat"
exclude "c:\...\security\edb.log"
exclude "c:\...\security\tmp.edb"
exclude "c:\...\security\Database\secedit.sdb"
exclude.dir *:wutemp
exclude.dir *:tmp
exclude.dir *:temp
exclude.dir *:\Recycler
exclude.dir *:\Recycled
exclude.dir *:\No_Backup
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\wins
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\LServer
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\dhcp
exclude.dir *:\...\system32\config
exclude.dir "*:\system volume information"
exclude.dir "*:temporary internet files"
exclude.dir "*:\...\profiles\...\history"
exclude.dir "c:\Documents and Settings\...\Downloader"
exclude.dir "c:\...\Profiles\...\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader"
exclude.dir "d:\AD\NTDS"
exclude.dir "C:\...\network associates\common framework\data"
exclude.dir "c:\Documents and Settings\...\Application Data\Network Associates\Common Framework"
exclude.dir "*:\mssql*\data"
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Message Edited by David Rawson on 07-10-200708:17 AM
