Make sure the Admin account has full privileges on the SQL DB you're trying to backup.
See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Hizny, Michael > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] SQL Database Agent error > > Hi, > > > > We just installed Data Protection for SQL on a windows 2008 server > running SQL 2005. We are getting the following error when we try a > backup. Has anyone seen this before? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > Backup Failed. ACO5402E . The virtual device set could not be created. > > > > In the Event logs we get: > > > > SQLVDI:Loc=CVDS::CreateEx,Desc=Create Memory, Error Code=(5)Access is > denied. > > > > > > We believe that it is a permissions error, but we can’t figure out what > permission needs to change. We are running the backup from an > administrative account on the server and the scheduled backups run as a > system level account. > > > >
