Rick, Thanks for the offer and yes we would greatly appreciate if you can find your notes on how you fixed it......
Z On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Rick Harderwijk <[email protected]>wrote: > Zoltan, > > We do succesfully do system state backups on Windows 2003 R2 and 2008 R2 > servers. Why we do it? Simple: disaster recovery. > > Do we occasionally get problems? Yes, we do, and I do recall having an > issue with a disappeared System Writer as well. I cannot recall exactly how > I fixed it, it might have been something to do with COM+. If you want me > to, I can have a look tomorrow, see if I can find documentation on that > issue. > > Cheers, > Rick > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:12 PM, 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 > > > -- *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
