Jonathan Schaeffer wrote at about 15:17:15 +0200 on Friday, August 12, 2011:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > this is not direcly connected to backuppc itself, but I thought I would
 > find people here with a good experience of my problem.
 > 
 > I am backing up windows clients to a central server using the shadow
 > copy system. It's alright for windows XP machines.
 > 
 > But I have an error on Windows 7. To sum up the whole thing, it's just
 > like :
 > 
 > $ vshadow.exe C:
 > 
 > Error during the last asynchronous operation.
 > - Returned HRESULT = 0x80042318
 > - Error text: VSS_E_WRITER_INFRASTRUCTURE
 > - Please re-run VSHADOW.EXE with the /tracing option to get more details
 > 
 > 
 > Of course, /tracing is not telling anything relevant (but I might be wrong).
 > 
 > Besides, the service "Volume Shadow Copy" starts normaly on the windows
 > machine.
 > 
 > I have to admit that I don't understand much about how windows is doing
 > all this shadow copy stuff.
 > 
 > Did someone come accross this problem and know how to repair it ?
 > 

Windows 7 uses a different version of vshadow than XP.
Also the command line arguments differ

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