BackupAssist Info

[Chuckster]

I've been running with BackupAssist for almost a year; it ran successfully on a server that housed all user data which would get backed up to external USB drives.

 

or so months ago I created a dedicated backup server to begin backing up data of users home drives, shared drives etc that gets stored locally and then copied to a NAS. However, it's been hit and miss.

 

The report will always show that some files are in use and therefore the backup will fail - "File opening error "\\servername\share\filename".... because it is being used by another process."

 

Backups are scheduled for 9pm and there's nothing to suggest anything is in use. I have had the server rebooted at 8.50pm and the problem is still the same.

 

In the job creation I have 'Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service' enabled and have selected the Copy mode.

 

 

I suppose my question really is: How have you configured your backup job in BackupAssist? Also, can I see a print screen of your schedule? I think I am probably doing it wrong.

[Chuckster]

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[Guest Guest]

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What version of BackupAssist are you running?

[Chuckster]

I'm running version 9.3.1 (9.3.1019).

[localzuk]

I have always had issues with VSS, regardless of backup software and OS. So, our BackupAssist job has a script set to restart the VSS service before each backup.

 

We use File Archiving as our backup job here.

 

We have VSS backup mode set to full.

[Guest Guest]

I'm running version 9.3.1 (9.3.1019).

 

We have the same version and just have the one backup job, a full daily System Protection backup, to external USB drives.

 

Our VSS Backup Mode is set to Full.

Edited June 17, 2016 by Guest

[CHM-ITServices]

I use Intermediate here's the schedule...

[Chuckster]

@Jam_lane, can I take a look at what your customised schedule looks like?