Is anyone having trouble with speed or persistent virtual drives after the backup due to virus software?? After my backups finish the VSP virtual drive is still present and using up the same disk space that the real drive is using. Is there a way to automatically disable McAfee prior to the backup and enable it after the backup finishes?? Help please!
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I think that McAffe use Windows Services to be automatically started at system boot.
IF So, you could try to launch a PRE/POST script wich STOPS/STARTS those services during backup.
Antivirus softwares or not recommanded on backup servers for performance reasons (but for security reasons...), if all of your servers are protected you may leave that one with no antivirus.
IF So, you could try to launch a PRE/POST script wich STOPS/STARTS those services during backup.
Antivirus softwares or not recommanded on backup servers for performance reasons (but for security reasons...), if all of your servers are protected you may leave that one with no antivirus.
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The problem is appearing on the windows clients. The virtual drive does not get deleted which means that double the space of the actual data is being stored. In some cases, this has used up all of the space on the drive. In addition, I cannot get a clean backup on some of the servers due to the McAfee holding files open.
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Stop Mcafee before the backup by using your bpstart_notify script ...
net stop "nai epolicy orchestrator agent"
net stop "network associates mcshield"
net stop "network associates alert manager"
Then restart them using the bpend_notify script after the backup is done ...
net start "network associates mcshield"
net start "nai epolicy orchestrator agent"
net start "network associates alert manager"
net stop "nai epolicy orchestrator agent"
net stop "network associates mcshield"
net stop "network associates alert manager"
Then restart them using the bpend_notify script after the backup is done ...
net start "network associates mcshield"
net start "nai epolicy orchestrator agent"
net start "network associates alert manager"
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Thanks for the post phantom. However, is this common practice? This would expose the server to infection during the period that the backup is running. Doing this to all of the clients across the network would open a huge vulnerability. Does NetBackup simply not work with virus software???
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Syjl,
This is a very common practice with any anti-virus that is running during backups. You could also set your anti-virus to monitor incoming files only. The problem is this: When a backup kicks off, the anti-virus program uses a ton of resources. If anti-virus is set to scan incoming and outgoing files, when the backup sends data out, this data is scanned first.
This is a very common practice with any anti-virus that is running during backups. You could also set your anti-virus to monitor incoming files only. The problem is this: When a backup kicks off, the anti-virus program uses a ton of resources. If anti-virus is set to scan incoming and outgoing files, when the backup sends data out, this data is scanned first.
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At the risk of beating this issue to a pulp, can I ask a few more questions?? The network team, which controls the intel servers, insists that this is a Veritas only issue and that Legato never had a problem backing up these files prior to this migration to Veritas. They state that Legato and ofm don't require disabling of the McAfee virus software and contend that no one running Legato does this. Does that sound correct?? How can Legato's technology be better (I don't think it is)?? Any help with diffusing their arguments would be great. Thanks again.
It is not the backup software - It is the anti-virus scanning. The scan is working like it should. In our environment, I have it set so that on media servers, only outgoing files are scanned so that the files being backed up are excluded from any double check.
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