The following best practices help you to use snapshots with CPS:

• Use a separate, dedicated hard drive for Shadow Copies. This practice helps to ensure that snapshots are not lost due to activity on the hard drive where the snapshot resides.

• Use Backup Exec to back up the CPS Shadow Copy Components to tape regularly. This practice preserves the data in the current CPS snapshots.

• Adjust the CPS snapshot schedule to best use the disk resources.

The following best practices help you to use Backup Exec to back up CPS Agent data:

• Ensure that all CPS backup operations are complete before you back up the CPS Agent data with Backup Exec. This practice helps you avoid failed jobs.

• Do not schedule CPS to create snapshots while you back up the CPS Agent data with Backup Exec.

The following best practices help to improve the performance of CPS:

• Configure memory usage for applications instead of for the default system cache.

  For more information, see the following document:

  http://support.veritas.com/docs/277876

• Ensure that the \CPS\Journals folder is located on a partition that does not contain the data that is selected for replication.

• Ensure that all real-time antivirus scanning applications on CPS servers are configured to exclude the \CPS\Journals folder and the \CPS\Index folder.