Volume Shadow Copy creation failed for D:

[Guest]

Hi, I am having trouble getting shadow copy to work consistently. I have VV2 Pro running on my XP pro computer and backing up files to my 2003 Server. I have set up Volume Shadow Copy for both in the profile, and it worked the first time I ran the backup. However, each subsequent time I ran the backup I got the following message:

Volume Shadow Copy creation failed for D:.
VSS_E_MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_SNAPSHOTS_REACHED. Click 'Continue' if you want to proceed without Volume Shadow Copy.

Can you help me out? The whole reason I got ViceVersa was to backup my PST file...

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, try the command: vssadmin list shadows from the command line. This command will list the shadow copies currently available on the system. For more options see command vssadmin. Windows XP only supports 1 shadow at a time. Before VV runs there should be no shadow copies available. While VV runs there should be one and finally there should be no shadow copies when VV is done because VV will remove what it has created.
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[sbell]

Hi, it looks like VV is not removing the shadow copy after the backup is done. Here's the scenario:

-I rebooted my XP machine to clear any existing Shadow Copies
-Checked for existing shadow copies using vssadmin and found there were none.
-Setup a backup from my XP machine to my 2003 Server (with Volume Shadow Copy set to "both" on the profile).
-Started the backup
-Ran vssadmin and confirmed that a shadow copy had been created.
-Ran vssadmin after the backup had finished and the same Shadow Copy was still listed.

Any idea why this is happening? Should I not have set Volume Shadow Copy to "both" in the profile? Could it be because I am backing up my data to a 2003 Server?

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, the correct settings in your case would be to have VSS only for "source".

Please try this:

Check the Windows Event Log (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer) to see if there are any errors in there related to VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service).

From the command line type the following:

vssadmin list writers
This lists registered writers and their status. They should all be reported as stable. If some aren't listed as stable then there may be a problem with your Windows installation.

vssadmin list providers
There should be a list of at least one entry (MS Software Shadow Copy provider). If none are listed then there may be problem with your Windows installation.

thanks
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[testing]

I'm trying to use volume shadow copy to backup pst files from windows xp pro clients to a windows 2003 server.

I get the following at the profile log file:

Creating Volume Shadow Copy for \\MACHINE\c$ ... [Volume Shadow Copy creation failed for \\MACHINE\c$. Volume not found. Volume Shadow Copies are only supported for local volumes]
2006-09-20 08:38:46 : [Volume Shadow Copy creation failed for \\MACHINE\c$. Volume not found. Volume Shadow Copies are only supported for local volumes] Error.


Configuration for this profile: (at the server)
backup from \\MACHINE\path -> to d:\users\nameofuser

I don't know if "local drive" must be source (\\MACHINE\path), target (d:\... at the server) or both.

At the "use volume shadow copy..." option I have selected "source".

Is possible to do what I want?
Any solutions to copy opened files to the server?
I hope all of this make sense for you. Sorry about my English.

Thanks.

[TGRMN Software]

The message ' Volume Shadow Copies are only supported for local volumes' means that shadow copies can only be created for disk volumes that are local to the machine where VV is running. If you are running VV on the server VV can create shadow copies only for disk volumes on the server, not for a remote client.
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