RE: IFS and Virus Scanning

>From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Clearly, using a virus scanner on the IFS will cause havoc on your save
>strategy.

And not scanning for viruii will cause havoc on you business continuity! <G>

We too scan w/Norton AV so I just tried a couple of tests. It appears that a
change in the last accessed date/time on windows doesn't trigger a "change"
from a differential backup point of view, where a change in the last access
date/time on the iSeries does. I guess that's a design tradeoff, I don't
consider a change in the last access date/time to be a change, but I can see
the case where it is. I'm just surprised that that decision isn't consistent
with the "classic" (QSYS) file system, where a last access date/time change
isn't a change for the purpose of savchgobj.

JMTCW.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 9:15 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IFS and Virus Scanning



Clearly, using a virus scanner on the IFS will cause havoc on your save
strategy.  If you need to do this regularly, you might consider using
save-while-active on the IFS, where transaction integrity is normally not
time critical.

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax

http://www.barsaconsulting.com
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We are using Norton AV Corporate edition here for our virus protection.
Recently a virus was found in a NetServer V5R1 share.  I scanned all of the
shares on our AS400.  That night when we did a change object backup on our
shares, well everything was marked as changed.  Is this something Norton AV
did or was it Netserver that marked them all as changed due to the fact
that
Norton opens everything for update in case a virus is found.  None were
found and nothing was really updated.  Sure blew our backup strategy to
heck
and back. ;-)

When scanning my PC, the modified date is not changed so why on a Netserver
share?

Christopher K. Bipes      mailto:Chris.Bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Operations & Network Mgr  mailto:Chris_Bipes@xxxxxxxxx
CrossCheck, Inc.          http://www.cross-check.com
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