NTBackup Problems

[tylan]

I'm working with a 2003 SBS Standard Server SP2. However this issue is more a general Windows issue not specific to SBS.

At some point the NTBackup application started freezing the server. We thought the issue was the tape hardware, but upon backing up to a BKF file we still have the same problem.

There were some errors about VSS, but I found some MS KB articles that had me re-register quite a bit of dlls. I still get a 6013 VSS error when SQL (MSDE) for ACT! is running. When I stop the ACT! services I do not get any errors during NTBackup (to disk). The server will freeze (lock up) during backup and require a push of the reset button. There are no errors in any of the event logs.

Here's the strangest part: The server will let me get a system state backup about 1 out of 5 times. Since there aren't any errors when it does freeze I'm not sure what to try next. Any suggestions?

 

[harderje]

I am having this same problem. We did an SBS 2003 SP2 migration to a new server. Everything was working fine on the old server but on the new server it will lock up when doing an NTBackup of the exchange store to a file.

It will also not always shut down properly unless I unmount the exchange stores or stop the microsoft information store service before rebooting.

Did you ever figure out how to fix your issue?

Thanks,

Joel