{"id":86,"date":"2009-05-12T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/support\/other-backup-software-can-cause-interfere-with-backupassist\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:12:55","slug":"other-backup-software-can-cause-interfere-with-backupassist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/other-backup-software-can-cause-interfere-with-backupassist","title":{"rendered":"Other backup software can cause problems with BackupAssist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

Recently we’ve had a number of support issues where problems have been caused when people evaluate BackupAssist alongside other backup products.<\/p>\n

In general, BackupAssist does not install any special drivers or do anything to interfere with the normal Windows operating system.<\/p>\n

However, other products are well known to change settings in the OS, which cause problems for other applications. There are two main categories of faults:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. VSS problems<\/strong> – these are caused when products install their own VSS Writers or Providers – and when they don’t function properly, they can cause all VSS snapshots to fail – even those done by BackupAssist or Windows itself<\/li>\n
  2. Tape driver problems<\/strong> – these are caused when products uninstall the Windows tape drivers, and install their custom drivers, causing all applications relying on the regular Windows drivers (like BackupAssist or ntbackup) to fail.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We have seen problems caused by major vendors such as Symantec\/Veritas and CA, and also minor vendors. An example of such a support case is included below:<\/p>\n

    I spent the last hour and a half today assisting a reseller with a file replication engine issue on Server 2008. VSS would fail and found that the WBADMIN engine backup would also fail during the VSS process.<\/p>\n

    However, the VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS all came up clean. The VSS events indicated that there was a problem communicating with a provider.<\/p>\n

    I then discovered Backup Exec was still installed on the system, even though all the services had been disabled. I did a VSSADMIN LIST PROVIDERS and found there was indeed a VSS service from Backup Exec.<\/p>\n

    To resolve the issue, we deleted all entries in the registry related to the GUID of this service.
    \nAfterwards, all worked as designed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    So if you’re having problems with either VSS or tape drives – please uninstall other backup software as your first test in the troubleshooting process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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