VSPCache files filling up C drive

[caspersn]

We have Veritas Net Backup and whenever it runs a backup on our server it creates these VSPCache files in the root of the C drive. Normally we only create boot/OS partitions of 10GB while our data partition is huge. This VSPCache file fills up our boot drive and causes problems. How can we change the location where these VSPCache files are created to avoid this problem?

 

[Stumpr]

Host Properties ->
Clients ->
Highlight client
Action -> properties
Windows client ->
VSP

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact and that is truth.

 

[NBMike]

Dunno if this is relevant in your case but I'll share it anyway..Netbackup should get rid of the cache files once the backup has finished. we had a massive problem where large VSP .tmp cache files were remaining on the drives after the backups finished, they'd be locked (by the system process) and couldn't be deleted (file in use). The drives were eventually filling up with old cache files causing major user issues. The only way to delete them was to delete the handle on the file by using Process Explorer (free download, search Google) to remove the lock (or by just rebooting the server), then deleting.

We discovered it was because of McAffee's AV realtime scanning...once we put in an exlusion to stop scanning any *.tmp files in the root of any drive, hey presto, no more cache files filling up drives.