Hi,
Do you have any firewall, antivirus enabled on this systems, try 
re-installing Networker client, what happens if you do a verbose backup 
from the client to the server ?
HTH



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[Networker] VSS failed to initialize for directives






Hi,

Last week I upgraded our networker server to 7.4sp2, and after that 
(most of) our clients too.

I changed all windows 2003 systems to use the new VSS save sets, but I 
have 2 systems on which this fails with the following errors:

* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:C:\ 1 retry attempted
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:C:\ ERROR: VSS failed to initialize for 
directives, error=0x800704d0: The network location cannot be reached. 
For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:C:\
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:C:\ 7154:save: Unable to set up VSS filesystem 
directives. Failed to back up C:\.
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ 1 retry attempted
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ VSS SYSTEM BOOT: ERROR: VSS 
failed to add comps in pre save, writer=FRS Writer, error=0x800704d0: 
The network location cannot be reached. For information about network 
troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ 39078:save: RPC error: RPC 
cannot encode arguments
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\
* nrgpad2.nrgnet.intra:VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ 7162:save: save of VSS SYSTEM 
BOOT:\ to ecnfds.ad.intra failed

Both systems are w2k3 sp2 domain controllers with DNS and DFS. Other 
identical systems for another domain run without any problems.

The C: drive is a physical disk in the system, so I don't understand 
what the message

I couldn't find anything about these messages anywhere.

'The network location cannot be reached' is about....

Anyone got any pointers?



Dennis


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