RE: Backups, VSS and SBS2003 HELP NEEDED!!!

Hello Luke,

Thank you for posting back and your information!

>From your reply, you mentioned "I have only installed Windows Server 2003
SP1 at this stage". We do not recommend that customers install Windows
Server 2003 SP1 on SBS 2K3, even though it is supported on Windows Small
Business Server 2003, but there are some known integration issues. Please
see:

Known issues that may occur if you install Windows Server 2003 SP1 on
Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;897342

So my suggestions are:

1. Remove Windows Server 2003 SP1 and test the issue again.

2. Perform clean boot and see whether this issue is caused by third party
software. The steps are listed in my last reply.

3. Actually, we do not consider this is a VSS issue, but you still can
safely disable it. If you are running the Backup Wizard, it will use its
own VSS writer to backup the open files real time, and you cannot disable
it. So you only can disable VSS from NTBackup. Disabling VSS will result in
some open files will not be backup. You also can use the command to disable
VSS. Please see:

Switch: /SNAP:{on | off}
Description: Specifies whether the backup must use a volume shadow copy.

Detail information in:

How to use command line parameters with the Ntbackup command in Windows
Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814583

Thanks for your time. If anything is unclear, please do let me know. I am
looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,

Brandy Nee

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>Further to my last post, this stuff came up when doing the vssadmin list
>writers (when i manually started the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy
Provider
>service:
>
>C:\WINDOWS\system32>vssadmin list writers
>vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
>(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
>Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
> Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
> Writer Instance Id: {69492854-2a75-4a51-9e4a-9da60ea7c5b0}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: No error
>
>Writer name: 'System Writer'
> Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
> Writer Instance Id: {626a0db5-20b8-4fe8-9703-5578f63ef003}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'NTDS'
> Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
> Writer Instance Id: {429821a2-ccfa-478e-91f4-01e8636cd9fb}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
> Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
> Writer Instance Id: {ade041f2-6553-4f40-85a7-c0b1cf1fe5f0}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
> Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
> Writer Instance Id: {642a20c0-2ecb-411e-95da-7a10e33c9036}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
> Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
> Writer Instance Id: {434a79bd-4d04-438a-8411-1d4e7ce3f4f6}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'WINS Jet Writer'
> Writer Id: {f08c1483-8407-4a26-8c26-6c267a629741}
> Writer Instance Id: {d6c178a0-6c98-49a1-9058-113357161a2a}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
> Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
> Writer Instance Id: {f6fabc52-6cdf-46cc-9943-ca9fd4af24cf}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: No error
>
>Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
> Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
> Writer Instance Id: {112dff9c-9ef5-48ed-8704-ab90119be8bd}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: No error
>
>Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
> Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
> Writer Instance Id: {382f82a1-3925-4248-be5c-eb8968bfab74}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: No error
>
>Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
> Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
> Writer Instance Id: {0a3bf7f4-1848-4e38-9390-6e96b070c056}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>
>Writer name: 'Removable Storage Manager'
> Writer Id: {5d3c3e01-0297-445b-aa81-a48d7151e235}
> Writer Instance Id: {316a6cc3-a746-4efa-bcb1-397911d2a79b}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: No error
>
>Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
> Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
> Writer Instance Id: {63866db3-0248-49f7-884b-e0baee121731}
> State: [1] Stable
> Last error: Non-retryable error
>

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