> Hey Bob, it's not FUD. VSP has been problematic since, I > don't know, 4.5?
Yessir, 4.5fp6 was the total replacement release where Columbia Data Products' OTM was replaced with VSP. > It would fail to release the lock on the file and therefore ]...] Sure there were problems, the worst IMO being what I believe you're alluding to--where antivirus software that wasn't told to ignore the .vsp files and would keep them open so NetBackup couldn't delete the cache file, requiring a reboot to remove. And several other to be sure--but where I intended to go was that, properly configured, VSP generally did a good job of OFB for me--where _any_ OFB backup was a win since Microsoft had nothing to help their own OS. > 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. Agree, and that's the reason this is worth a reply. I intended to say it explicitly in the first message but forgot: once MS offered OFB with w2k3, there was no reason to keep using a third-party installable device driver--configure the OS vendor's solution and move on. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu