Hi Mike, If that is your entire option file, you have systemstate included in your backup by default. And the systemstate backup will always use VSS as per Microsoft's design.
The " SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS NONE" option just stops to use VSS for filesystem backups, not for systemstate. - Thanks, Marc... Marc Lanteigne Spectrum Protect Specialist AVP / SRT IBM Systems, Spectrum Protect / Plus +1-506-460-9074 <- New phone number marclantei...@ca.ibm.com Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 to 15:30 Eastern IBM -----Original Message----- From: Michael Hizny <mhi...@binghamton.edu> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 10:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ADSM-L] snapshot error Hi, We are trying to run a normal backup on a windows 2016 server. We are not using snapshots, yet every time the scheduler starts a backup, it fails by trying to start a snapshot. Has anyone seen this and is there a way to disable the VSS snapshot attempt? *Here is the error:* 02/25/2021 20:36:07 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered. IBM Spectrum Protect function name : StartSnapshotSet() IBM Spectrum Protect function : 'StartSnapshotSet() failed with error VSS_E_SNAPSHOT_SET_IN_PROGRESS. 0X80042316' IBM Spectrum Protect return code : -2147212522 IBM Spectrum Protect file : ..\..\common\winnt\asrutil.cpp (1928) *Here is the opt file where we have VSS disabled:* NODENAME XXXXXXX TCPSERVERADDRESS xxx.xx.xxxxx.xxx EXCLUDE.BACKUP "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*" EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE "*:\...\system32\Perflib*.dat" SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS NONE SNAPSHOTPROVIDERIMAGE NONE PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE Thanks, Mike --
