Thanks for the quick response.
vssadmin list writers:
vssadmin 1.0 - 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: {b9048c82-c0b6-42e8-b885-3ddc806474bd}
State: [1] Stable
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {a4358c3f-d8b3-4e32-971a-a1aa47f7b0fb}
State: [9] Failed
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {38ebb2dd-0122-48e1-915e-23ce2aed2e95}
State: [9] Failed
Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)'
Writer Id: {f2436e37-09f5-41af-9b2a-4ca2435dbfd5}
Writer Instance Id: {9470d858-515e-47d9-bf71-ba1a26782a69}
State: [1] Stable
Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)'
Writer Id: {e38c2e3c-d4fb-4f4d-9550-fcafda8aae9a}
Writer Instance Id: {1a9ca255-4ad6-4172-9d04-d433e9958d33}
State: [1] Stable
--------------
vssadmin list shadows (while backup is running):
vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
Contents of shadow copy set {26035bf3-a48b-4993-afcb-6f48affefd4c}
(The shadow copy set contained 1 shadow copies at creation time, 1
shadow copie
s exist now)
'MS Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0' shadow copy
{d6dc446b-5cae-46bb-a555-d344
c70d65e5} on volume \\?\Volume{d27e6118-47d1-11d9-aa59-806d6172696f}\
------------------
vssadmin list shadows (after backup completes):
vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
No shadow copies present in the system.
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A couple more notes that may or may not make a difference. I am running
SQL Server Express 2005 on this system, and the event logs show the
databases freezing and unfreezing during the bacula backups. The log is
telling me the database was successfully backed up, but I am not backing
up anything from my SQL databases (to my knowledge).
Thanks
Mike
Robert Nelson wrote:
> What is the output from the command "vssadmin list writers"?
>
> Also what is the output from the command "vssadmin list shadows" after the
> successful backup but prior to the next backup?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Gerszewski
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:27 AM
>> To: bacula-users
>> Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows Client, VSS Issues, 2.0.3?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have been evaluating Bacula for the School District I work for as a
>> backup option for our Windows 2003 Servers. I like many of the features
>> Bacula has compared to other solutions. I have been testing with 2.0.3
>> with the director on a linux box, a storage daemon on a Windows 2003
>> box, and a file daemon on an XP box. I installed the Linux portion from
>> RPMs and the Windows client with the windows installer.
>>
>> I have it configured to do Disk backups. The first couple of days,
>> everything worked OK with small backups without much change (~100 MB
>> full, 1-2 MB incremental). Then I switched to a larger amount of files
>> (~28 GB with ~800 MB of change per day). Now the FD seems to hang up.
>> Here are the symptoms:
>>
>> If I start off a fresh boot, the first backup on this machine will work
>> fine. If I do not reboot the computer, or kill the bacula-fd and
>> vssvc.exe processes, the next backup will do one of two things:
>>
>> 1) Backup all the way to the end, and just hang
>> or
>> 2) Not start the backup at all and sit at 0 Bytes/files
>>
>> I can break this cycle by killing the vssvc.exe process (Volume Shadow
>> Copy). Then the backup finishes successfully, and incidentally
>> vssvc.exe start again. If it hung at the beginning, it will generally
>> give a warning or error that VSS could not start and the backup will be
>> done without VSS.
>>
>> One thing that seems odd is that the vssvc.exe process is always
>> running, even when there isn't a backup running. When I look at our
>> servers that are running the MS backup utility, vssvc.exe is only
>> running while a backup is in progress.
>>
>> For our implementation, I really need to be able to use VSS, so I have
>> not tried it with VSS disabled.
>>
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike Gerszewski
>>
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