#1 VSS - Quoting KBEE, "I hate it."
- Qouting our in house Windows support, "It's Windows, what do you expect?"
#2 "Other" - I almost put this in "Filesystem errors". I have a regular problem with errors related to vscan problems for files on CIFS shares. It is a variety of permission denied error generated by Windows when trying to backup certain files on CIFS shares. The permission of the client profile MUST be adequate because it backs up other files with the same permission levels in the same directories. Most of them are large files. For a time it seemed to be specific to .xls files, then .pdf crept in, then others. The problem initially cropped up after a change related to McAffe. Each player (IBM,Virus Scanner, Windows) pointed the finger at the others. Eventually the problem was fixed with a patch from McAffe.
Then we changed to Symantec virus software.
Back to square 1.
The most information I found was to try toggling vscan off on the filer and running a backup. That worked well. It is a poor workaround though. I run a backup, check for failed files then next day, toggle vscan off, run a backup for just those files, toggle vscan back on, then check the next day for new files.
The IBM support person I spoke to actually told me that he was being "admonished" for spending too much time on a call that was not an IBM issue because he took time to make the vscan toggle suggestion and waited the 60 seconds or so while I ran a backup of a few files to test it. I'm tempted to count that as a problem itself...