Running Backup of System State failes

[Guest Tobias Bundy]

Hi,

 

I'm running Windows Server 2003 SP1.

When using NTBackup to backup the System State I get the following message

in the backup log:

Backup Status

Operation: Backup

Active backup destination: File

Media name: "Testrun"

Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1.

Timeout before function completed

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0xffffffff.

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:ffffffff

Aborting Backup.

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The operation did not successfully complete.

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Shadow Copy is enabled on the server and sufficient disk space is available.

When trying to list the vss sriter using vssadmin, there not a single one

displayed, the command just keeps jumping back to the prompt.

I followd Mircrosoft's advise to re-register the DLLs relevant to the VSS,

but without success.

 

Could anybosy give me a hint on how to proceed with troubleshooting ?

 

Thank you very much in advance.

 

Regards

 

Tobias