I know this sounds strange, but let me get into the details. We have the W2K8R2 box that seems to lose / stop most of the VSS writers, about once a month and manually starting them doesn't work (requires reboot) for the TSM backups. Starts producing the errors:
ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system components can not be queried Running latest 7.1.0.3 client. Has been uninstalled and reinstalled numerous times, including deleting all TSM directories, to no avail. Server is fully patched. Even after rebooting the server (always during "black Tuesday" patching), the backups run for a while and then start failing again, requiring another reboot. Last failure is from today's backups. Windows event log shows a failure source of "tsmVssWriter" and Event ID 4097 and plenty of other VSS errors with lots of different ID's (8193, 24, 8224, 12342, 13) Yes, this clearly sounds like a VSS/Windows problem. Unfortunately, we don't get any support from M$ Is there a way to backup systemstate with non-VSS tools? Anyone else see this kind of problem? -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
