Same scenario here. Just worked with a user on their backups having
constant errors that seem to be VSS related on their 2008 R2 SP1 servers.
One of the IBM articles I found points you to Microsoft for hotpatches
related to VSS problems.


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Tom Alverson <tom.alverson AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:

> Is anyone else seeing a large increase in VSS problems (maybe since patch
> night) primarily on WIndows 2008 non R2 servers?  The VSS errors are not
> fixed by our usual VSS fixer script or even rebooting.  Running VSSADMIN
> list writers will show the system writer as always missing on these
> servers, and this is causing the TSM backups to do a non VSS backup and log
> it as a failure.
>



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