Andrey,
Thank you. We are doing a service start/stop with savepnpc but naturally it logs lots of event log errors which become flagged by our splunk monitor and need to be explained. It does 'force' networker to use the software provider however.
Thanks again, Eugene Sent via mobile.
-----Original Message----- From: "Borzenkov, Andrey" andrey.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 06:53:57 To: Eugene Vilenskyevilensky@gmail.com Cc: toasters@teaparty.nettoasters@teaparty.net Subject: RE: VSS providers and EMC NetWorker
See https://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg106853; this feature request apparently exists for a long time.
As far as I understand – if save set(s) include non-NetApp storage only, NetWorker should not be using NetApp hardware VSS provider. Do you have non-Snap Manager controlled data on NetApp that needs backing up?
Another quite brute force workaround is to use savepnpc to disable NetApp provider before save group start and re-enable it after end. Of course ensuring non-overlapping schedules can quickly become nightmare.
--- With best regards
Andrey Borzenkov Senior system engineer Service operations
From: Eugene Vilensky [mailto:evilensky@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:51 PM To: Borzenkov, Andrey Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: VSS providers and EMC NetWorker
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Borzenkov, Andrey <andrey.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.commailto:andrey.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote: Does setting VSS:*=off in client "Save operations" attribute help?
It does, in that we can get files not in use off to tape...but the real deal would be to use software provider for NetWorker (our Tape solution) and hardware provider for SAN-related things.
-Ev