Do you have antivirus software loaded? If so you might what to exclude the
save process.
They are a few MS updates to VSS.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Michael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV>
wrote:
> I have a Win2008 cluster that is one of my main file shares. And sometimes
> files are not backed up because they are in use (most likely left open by
> a user). I thought that VSS (which can not be disabled for Win2008
> clients) allowed for backing up open files, by taking a snapshot (whether
> open or not), and then NW does its backup from that snapshot.
>
> There used to be an open file manager addon that took care of that for NW,
> IIRC (it's been a long time). What should I be doing to make sure I get
> these files backed up?
>
> (as an aside, VSS is a real pain. I will get notifications like "VSS
> Backup or Restore is not in the correct state for the operation, or the
> writer is not in the correct state..". And if I do absolutely nothing...
> the next night it will run fine. I don't touch anything, I don't reset
> anything, I don't restart anything. It just magically Goes Away ...)
>
> --
> Michael Leone
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> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
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