Unfortunately, I already tried your suggestion. That's what I did first because 
the documentation says you
need "NSR_SNAP_TYPE="vss" in the "Application Information". It didn't help.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of Rachel Polanskis
Sent: Thu 9/18/2008 6:50 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to set up for VSS snapshot backups
 
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Stan Horwitz wrote:

> I am trying to learn how VSS snapshots work in NetWorker. The NetWorker 
> server is Power Edition 7.4SP1 on Solaris 10 and I have the latest NetWorker 
> module for Microsoft Applications on the client, which runs Windows 2003. How 
> do I get this to work? I set up a snapshot policy in the group and I am 
> following the documentation, but I get a message that the save operation is 
> not supported.


Hmmm, yeah this is the sort of thing I have been troubling with the 
Sharepoint 2007 stuff.

You need to set "NSR_SNAP_TYPE="vss" in the "Application Information"
tab in the Legato Client config.

Then you might be in snapshot world, just like me :/




> Here's the message:
>
> NetWorker savegroup: (alert) test4 completed, Total 1 client(s), 1 Failed. 
> Please see group completion details for more information.
>
> Failed: feith-dev
>
> Start time:   Thu Sep 18 11:36:46 2008
> End time:     Thu Sep 18 11:44:07 2008
>
>
> --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
>
> See the file /nsr/tmp/sg/test4/sso.feith-dev.WBaivq for details. This file 
> may be removed after Thu Sep 25 11:36:46 2008.
>
> 5 retries attempted
> 52051:nsrsnap:Printing savecmd=nsrsnap_vss_save.exe after parsing
> SYSTEM COMPONENTS:\ Q:\ I:\ F:\ D:\ C:\
> 50387:nsrsnap_vss_save: nsrsnap_vss_save: Calling nsrsnap_vss_save.exe
> 50393:nsrsnap_vss_save: nsrsnap_vss_save: flag=? arg=NSR_SNAP_TYPE=vss. Save 
> operation feature is not supported. Ignoring input provided
> [5532] [I]  09/18/08 11:45:52 NetWorker Server Version: NetWorker 
> 7.4.1.Build.335 Power Edition/348
> 50410:nsrsnap_vss_save: nsrsnap_vss_save: Must provide Application 
> Information NSR_SNAP_TYPE value
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