On Aug 15, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Francis Swasey wrote:

We have just connected our second or third Windows Server 2008 64- bit system to our existing NW 7.3.3 Server and are having issues with the VSS backup.

We installed the 64-bit NW 7.4.2 Windows client on the Microsoft Windows 2008 system.

These are the error messages we are getting:

* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ 3 retries attempted
* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ System Writer - Get file
attributes returned error 2 for VSS file

\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy16\windows \system32\slanac

cel.exe
* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ System Writer - ERROR: Failed
to save filegr files, writer = S
* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ System Writer - Error saving
writer System Writer
* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ System Writer - ERROR:

Aborting backup of saveset VSS SYSTEM FILESET: because of the error with

writer System Writer.
* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ System Writer - Error saving
* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ 39078:save: RPC error: RPC
cannot encode arguments

* CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ * CLIENT_NAME:VSS SYSTEM FILESET: \ 7162:save: save of VSS SYSTEM

FILESET:\ to ozzie.uvm.edu failed

I have replaced the real client name with "CLIENT_NAME" in the above messages. A knowledgebase search on Powerlink has turned up one case where a reboot cleared the issue and there was no real knowledge of what the problem was.... before I open an issue with EMC.... Has anyone run into this and know what caused it?

To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and type 
"signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to networker-request 
AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with this list. You can access the 
archives at http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER