Bonnie, Do you use a dedicated set of spindles to help with the performance problems? A different volume on the same set would not seem to help. I was getting those errors, but I am now running snapshots off-hours and that fixed our issues.
-Devin On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Miller Bonnie L. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have always had huge problems if not redirecting the snapshots to a > different volume when it's a busy volume (ie, user home and/or profile > folders on the volume). At some point we end up getting the "volume too > busy", "I'm deleting all of your snapshots" type of events in the logs, and > then all snapshots are just gone from that point forward. > > > > We have two file servers left that don't have drives for redirecting the > backups, and even with the last VSS rollup installed (< > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349/en-us>), I've still seen this > behavior at times. WS03 R2 SP2 +hotfixes on these systems, but it's been > ongoing for us since WS03 gold. On the flipside, we used to see this on > pretty much all volumes. Now, if it's a much less busy volume, I don't tend > to see this anymore. > > > > -Bonnie > > > > *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Monday, March 10, 2008 8:33 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Windows 2003 vss > > > > How many in practice actually redirect vss's storage to a different > volume? Do you find VSS to be unreliable without? > > Thanks, > jlc > > > > > > > -- Devin ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
