I haven't used BackupExec in over a year now, but I'd check w/
support.veritas.com.  I remember having a similar issue when 10d first
came out and I'm fairly sure there was some sort of patch that had to be
applied to the clients to fix it.

-Jonathan

 

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] BackupExec 10d VSS error

Hello All

After upgrading to BackupExec a lot of the windows 2003 clients often
gives this error:
AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\CLIENT_NAME\Shadow?Copy?Components".

Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS).
Snapshot provider error (0xE000FED1): A failure occurred querying the
Writer status.
Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.
Writer Name: Registry, Writer ID:
{AFBAB4A2-367D-4D15-A586-71DBB18F8485},
Last error: The VSS Writer timed out (0x800423f2), State: Failed during
freeze operation (9).  Consult your Microsoft documentation for details.

Check the Windows Event Viewer for corresponding application or system
errors.
Writer Name: System Files, Writer ID:
{E8132975-6F93-4464-A53E-1050253AE220},
Last error: The VSS Writer timed out (0x800423f2), State: Failed during
freeze operation (9).  Consult your Microsoft documentation for details.

Check the Windows Event Viewer for corresponding application or system
errors.

Any ideas/suggestions will be appreciated

Regards
Michael

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