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It is possible that updates have been made to the original version after this document was translated and published. Veritas does not guarantee the accuracy regarding the completeness of the translation. You may also refer to the English Version of this knowledge base article for up-to-date information. Support Knowledge base Article: VSP is required. This option specifies that Microsoft VSS be used to create volume snapshots of volumes.

View solution in original post. NBU 6. But even in NBU 6. NBU 7. I was just motivated to check our current NetBackup 7.

Now I just need to change the grep to an egrep so I can get the name of the clients with VSP enabled. Once a client is set to VSP it will sit there fat, dumb and stupid until you manually change it from the master server client attributes or the bpclient command. By default, no clients are listed in the Client Attributes dialog box.

If both options are not disabled, a snapshot is created, though that may not be the intention of the administrator.

This option is used for back-level versions of NetBackup only. Support for the Windows versions that are listed here has ended. This option specifies that Veritas VSP be used as the snapshot provider. This option specifies that Microsoft VSS be used to create volume snapshots of volumes and logical drives for the selected clients. For information about how to do Active Directory granular restores when using VSS, see the following topic:.

See Active Directory host properties. Individual drive snapshot. Specifies that the snapshot should be of an individual drive default. When this property is enabled, snapshot creation and file backup are done sequentially on a per volume basis. For example, assume that drives C and D are to be backed up. If the Individual drive snapshot property is selected, NetBackup takes a snapshot of drive C, backs it up, and discards the snapshot. It then takes a snapshot of drive D, backs it up, and discards the snapshot.

Volume snapshots are enabled on only one drive at a time, depending on which drive is to be backed up. This mode is useful when relationships do not have to be maintained between files on the different drives. Although the backup appears to complete successfully and status code 0 is reported in the Activity Monitor, NetBackup only backs up a subset of the backup selection s defined in the policy. No error is presented. The only indication is that there are fewer files backed up than expected.

The formal resolution to this issue Etrack is included in the following release:. Workaround: To prevent this issue while keeping Accelerator enabled, Veritas recommends any one of the following workarounds:. Best Practices: Veritas strongly recommends the following best practices: 1. Always perform a full DR backup prior to making any changes to your environment.

Always make sure that your environment is running the latest version and patch level. Perform periodic "test" restores.