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Borealis's avatar
Borealis
Level 4
12 years ago

Problem with VSS ASR Writer

Hi all, I'm using Backup Exec 2012 fully patched on Windows 2008 R2 standard  SP1 Very often I have a situation that many backup jobs failed for various reasons. The weird thing is that the very ...
2012
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
Mange_24S's avatar
Mange_24S
Level 3
12 years ago

Just run the SGMON, works fine for 2012. Seems like that is an old article from 2009 that havent been updated with the new versions. 

You mention the mediaserver, what server is backed up when you get the ASR writer error? That server is the one with the problem. If 2008, the re-registering is not recommended - for 2003 I think many have tried and succeeded.