On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, <Rusty.Major AT sungard DOT com> wrote:

Since I replied to the other poster that had these issues, I thought I would reply again to you.
It is most likely VSS causing your problem. There are a couple of things you can do to check this:
1)Use NTBackup to backup system state/shadow copy components and if it fails, it's related to VSS on the host.
2)Turn off VSS/VSP in NetBackup for the client and then try to backup the individual drive letters and not Shadow Copy Components, which is also captured by All Local Drives. Shadow Copy Components uses VSS to properly backup and to avoid this you have to avoid using it to backup. If you disable VSS on the host, you won't be able to get Shadow Copy Componets, I do not believe. If this backup works, then NBU is ok and you'll need to look at VSS.

I'm not sure what our Windows team did to fix the VSS issues we've had, but from my understanding they worked with MS and it was not fun.

Good Luck!

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rascal <rascal1981 AT gmail DOT com> Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 03/07/2008 09:56 AM

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Excellent point and one that I had thought of.  I went back and looked at my email and I had a typo; the OS is W2K3 SP1 (problem box) and W2K3 SP2 (master).  But that is something I have been toying with.  Do you happen to know if there were any "fixes" to the VSS/WMI process in SP2?  Another question would be, given my previous email's logs that I included, does it seem like the problem is in the VSS/WMI process/sub-processes or am I going down the wrong trail?

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:45 PM, bruceephx <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

>From a Windows standpoint, any reason your on SP1 and SP2?  Those were pretty unstable SP's.  I had problems with Win2K until I got to SP4.  Plus there is a Rollup update in addition to SP4, but that is mostly security patches.  With Win2K at End of Life at Microsoft, getting fixes for VSS or WMI for those SP releases will be very difficult.  The daylight savings time updates for Win2K server was going to cost $4,000 even though we have a support contract. [Shocked]

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