VSS

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Wot – no VSS writers ?

This entry was posted in Backup Software Tips and tagged VSS Windows Backup on March 17, 2015 by HAL

A clients backup failed and on inspection I noticed that the command “vssadmin list writers” which should report the status of the writers that support backups of various components came back blank. Yes Completely Blank !! So that could explain the backup failure and the subsequent issue where I was unable to view the backup […]

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Sqldumper error after removing Outlook 2007 BCM

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged BCM Outlook 2007 SQLDumper VSS on November 21, 2012 by HAL

This problem appears regularly when removing the troublesome and generally unused BCM addon that came with the Outlook 2007 Small Business Edition. I haven’t come across too many companies using the addon as frankly its performance and reliability were sub par. I have though come across a lot of oddities that are traced back to […]

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Windows 2008 r2 and Exchange VSS problem

This entry was posted in Software Storage Tips and tagged Backup EXEC 12.5 VSS on November 8, 2011 by HAL

The scenario. Two servers – one with Backup Exec 12.5 and all available patches – the other with Exchange 2007 SP2 nd the backup exec agent for exchange. Both running Server 2008 r2. The problem – every time an exchange backup of the store on the second server failed immediately on backup exec with a […]

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