We use VSS in our company, but have numerous cases were we can’t backup the databases as users have locked them. Is there a way to schedule a kill of all connetions to the source safe service. Or any Rekommandation? Regards, Alan Answer Hmmm, stopping the server service seems a bit extreme. You can disconnect … Read more
I am using Ahsay as our backup system, I am backing up a system that always has files open, typically running a Shadow copy allows the backup to run with no problems on the open files, however on a few systems I am receiving errors that the files cannot be backed up because it is … Read more
I am using Ahsay as our backup system, I am backing up a system that always has files open, typically running a Shadow copy allows the backup to run with no problems on the open files, however on a few systems I am receiving errors that the files cannot be backed up because it is … Read more
I attempted to do a backup of our virtualization server when moving from Hyper-V 2008 to R2. I changed the registry settings to register Hyper-V VSS with Windows Server Backup, and sent the backup on it’s way while I went on to other things. Apparently the VSS portion didn’t back-up the VM’s like I had … Read more
Environment: Server: Windows Server 2008 Client computers: Windows XP Pro SP 3 I discovered that the “Local Settings” folder in a user’s profile’s directory does not exist when I open up the profile’s folder using Previous Verions. I already tried showing all hidden files. Any suggestions for allowing VSS to periodically back up the folder … Read more
If I use VMware converter it throws Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered . Operation: Instantiating VSS server If I use Disk2vhd it throws Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied. . This is … Read more
I am running Symantec BackupExec CPS 2010 on Server 2008 R2. I have everything set up ok, the backups are running and I can perform restores. I also have configured the snapshots, but they do not run according to the schedule. I can, however, manually run the snapshots through CPS without any error, but when … Read more
Is it possible to restore specific directory from shadow copy snapshot of logical disk in Windows 2003? I have logical disk (also configured as network share) on Windows 2003 server. I have set up automatic Shadow Copy creation points (twice a day). I can see these points in properties of the logical disk. Now I … Read more
We have an extra Windows 2003 Server that I am hoping can be used to speed up development process on a web site we’re producing. We are trying to reduce lag time from our really slow ASP.Net local Development server by implementing a development server that hosts a dev version of our website though IIS. … Read more
I have a Windows Server 2003 Marjority Node Set Cluster. There are VDisks from our EVA8000 connected. From these VDisks I would like to create Snapshots using VSS. The Snapshots should appear in the “Previous Versions” tab from the Properties from a folder. So a user can restore his data independently. I’ve installed the HP … Read more
