I would talk to Microsoft.  You can produce an error with their tool, they will 
work the problem.  They may also ask for what error you get with Windows Backup.

Andy Huebner

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Christian Svensson
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 3:27 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS1705E with WMI Writer

Hi their,
I hope to find some light over here.

I got a couple of servers that has the same problem. All of them are Windows 
Server 2003 32-bits with SP2 and running TSM Client  6.2.3.1.

When I try to backup System State do I get following error ANS1705E System 
Writers 'system writer' 'WMI Writer' do not exist, following by many ANS1417W 
that are created by the first error.

When I searching on the web do I found a couple of ideas to recreate/modify a 
couple of registry values/catalogs, but before I start with try-n-error method 
do I find out what's really going on and when I run the WMIDiag tool from 
Microsoft do I got following error.

35718 10:04:07 (0) ** - Root/CIMv2, InstancesOf, 'Win32_ComputerSystem' did not 
return any instance while AT LEAST 1 instance is expected.
35719 10:04:07 (0) **   MOF Registration: ''

When I search on that error do I get 0 results that are similar.

So if you have any ideas how to solve this problem should I be glad to get that 
information.

Thanks
Christian

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