Hi In my opinion (and IBM's if you ask) you should use vss anyway, regardless of your systemstate preference.
We backup the systemstate so we can recover the whole system. No systemstate and you have to reinstall apps etc. Just my $2 Steven On 9 Jan 2014 18:13, "Zoltan Forray" <[email protected]> wrote: > A question about backing up systemstate, which seems to give us numerous > headaches. > > Do you backup systemsstate on your Windows servers and WHY? > > My Windows folks constantly contact me about errors backup up and getting > failures related to the systemstate files/process or VSS. > > For example, today's headache is a 2008 box failing with *"System Writers > 'system writer' do not exist * and yes, doing a "vssadmin list writers" > does not list "system writers". They have been fighting this since > November, with no solution to fixing this problem. All hits/suggested > solutions from Google searches have been tried, to no avail. I don't thing > the server owners are willing to do a complete rebuild. > > The simple solution would be to NOT backups systemstate. For a simple > 2008 server, what do we lose by not backing up systemstate? > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > [email protected] - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html >
