ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure

2017-09-15 13:28:36
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VSS Snapshot problems - system writer failure
From: Tom Alverson <tom.alverson AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:26:16 -0400
Looks like the problem is just with Windows 2008 (non R2) both 32 and 64
bit with this update:  KB4019276 - Update to add support for TLS 1.1 and
TLS 1.2

Still doing some testing.....

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Tom Alverson <tom.alverson AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:

> I always have a small percentage of VSS problems (with thousands of
> clients) but right now I am seeing a huge increase and I have not been able
> to fix them with our script which can usually fix VSS issues without a
> reboot and rebooting the servers does not fix it either.  I just email our
> Microsoft rep to see if he knew anything about this.
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Zoltan Forray <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> 
> wrote:
>
>> 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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