Tim,
You might want to take a look at MS KB940184 - it deals with the VSS
errors.
Deleting the registry key mentioned in this KB article and restrting the
client did the trick for us.
Regards,
Adam 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: 25 November 2008 19:50
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM systemstate backups or NTBACKUP

We use it on hundreds of servers with no problems.  We have seen
problems caused by the infamous DRM registry key and VSS but most
problems have been fixed with newer clients and Windoz patches.

On our AD servers, we are using NTBACKUP because M$ says that is the
*ONLY* acceptible/sanctioned backup/restore utility but still backup the
rest of the system with TSM.




Tim Brown <tbrown AT CENHUD DOT COM>
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11/25/2008 02:29 PM
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[ADSM-L] TSM systemstate backups or NTBACKUP






Is anyone using the Windows NTBACKUP to backup Windows servers
SYSTEMSTATE instead of relying on using TSM to backup the system state.

I am always running into issues with some servers not able to get a
successfull SYSTEMSTATE backup via TSM

Latest clients have been Windows 2003 servers at 5.5.0 level

If someone is how are you scheduling the NTBACKUP ?

DSMSCHED.LOG

Incremental backup of volume 'SYSTEMSTATE'
11/23/2008 09:02:11 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
components could not be queried.

11/23/2008 09:02:11 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
components could not be queried.

DSMERROR.LOG

11/24/2008 13:47:07 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM function name : VssRequestor::queryWriters
   TSM function      : GetComponentInfo() returned E_OUTOFMEMORY
   TSM return code   : 4344
   TSM file          : vssreq.cpp (5791)
11/24/2008 13:47:08 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM function name : vssQueryComponents
   TSM function      : queryWriters() returned '4344'
   TSM return code   : 4344
   TSM file          : vssback.cpp (797)
11/24/2008 13:47:09 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
components could not be queried.

11/24/2008 13:47:09 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
components could not be queried.

Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Email: tbrown AT cenhud DOT com <mailto:tbrown AT cenhud DOT com>
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