Server 2003 'Client is not licensed for VSS' not backing up full volume

Question

We recently added a W2K3 client to our networker group. The D drive is 410GB currently only 6GB used but it is soon to be one of the network file servers so needs to back up properly.
The client says it backs up successfully but also states
D:\ save: Diagnostic: This client is not licensed for VSS.
D:\ save: Diagnostic: D:\ will be saved without a snapshot being taken.
D:\ level=full, 15 MB 00:00:07 25 files

I've checked out Volume Shadow Copy Service for W2K3 and it's not something that we would bother with due to 1. space issues and 2. we take a full back up every night anyway and recovery is so quick we don't expect or want users to start doing it themselves.

I have another W2K3 server that does not have VSS enabled, and this server does not see fit to report the fact on every back up job. Any thoughts?

The main issue though is why is it only backing up 25 files - total volume 15MB when there is already 6GB of files on the drive, and soon to be hundreds more?
Hope you can help.

Regards,
Jonathan

ble1 · Accepted Answer

Also make sure you do not use some sort of directive... to me this is like DFS root is set for DATA, but if you don't use it might be something else... What do you have inside DATA directory? Is it live data (eg. open files)?

ble1 · Answer

Do you have maybe DFS on that drive?

ble1 · Answer

Do nsrinfo for that saveset or simply run manual save with level full and see what happens and what gets skipped and why.

chilworth2 · Answer

No, it is a simple basic disk, ntfs no dfs set up.

chilworth2 · Answer

thanks,part of the output for the d: drive for each day is:D:\cpfpshares.txt, date=1181759001 xxx Jun yy 19:23:21 2007D:\DATA\, date=1181759001 xx Jun nn 19:23:21 2007D:\homesrvrshares.txt, date=1181759001 xxx Jun yy 19:23:21 2007it seems to back up the two text files that are in the root of the d drive, but nothing that is in the D:\data folder.

dpinink_silva · Answer

Try to run save -vvv for this d:\data folder and see which messages you get.

chilworth2 · Answer

Thanks, got time to check this again - someone had set DFS up (even though we don't use it

) so I removed the replication settings and the dfs namespace and ran a back up again. This time a lot more files were backed up. The client still warns that it is not licensed for VSS - can this be removed because other w2k3 servers that don't use vss (do any??) don't feel the need to report this.
I'll start a new thread!
Thanks again.

Danne-Murphy · Answer

You can disable VSS by entering VSS:*=OFF on the apps & module tab of the client configuration in the save operations field.

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Server 2003 "Client is not licensed for VSS" not backing up full volume

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