Running Backup of System State failes

Hi,

I'm running Windows Server 2003 SP1.
When using NTBackup to backup the System State I get the following message
in the backup log:
Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Testrun"
Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1.
Timeout before function completed
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0xffffffff.
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:ffffffff
Aborting Backup.
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The operation did not successfully complete.
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Shadow Copy is enabled on the server and sufficient disk space is available.
When trying to list the vss sriter using vssadmin, there not a single one
displayed, the command just keeps jumping back to the prompt.
I followd Mircrosoft's advise to re-register the DLLs relevant to the VSS,
but without success.

Could anybosy give me a hint on how to proceed with troubleshooting ?

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards

Tobias


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