VVlauncher / VVengine and VSS

[mdziasek]

Hello...

I am trying out ViceCersa pro to see if I should use it for our users. To test I am simply copying from one Windows 7 PC to another.

Without VSS everything works well. VSS works if I launch ViceVersa and perform a sync.

But using VVlauncher or VVengine with VSS does not work. It begins the scheduled task and goes on forever. If I turn VSS off, it works fine. I even tried launching VVlauncher manually ensuring I run it as an admin but it did not help.

VVengine is running as a service with an admin user.

I won't post the whole log as it is very long, here is the tail end of it:

2010-02-10 14:25:20 : Selecting VSS components ...
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'Task Scheduler Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \TasksStore, caption: 'Tasks Store'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \WriterMetadataStore, caption: 'VSS Express Writer Metadata Store'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'Performance Counters Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \PerformanceCounters, caption: 'Performance Counters'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'System Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \System Files, caption: 'System Files'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'MSSearch Service Writer' is excluded.
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'ASR Writer' is excluded.
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'WMI Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \WMI, caption: 'Windows Managment Instrumentation'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'Registry Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \Registry, caption: 'Registry'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' is excluded.
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : * Writer 'COM+ REGDB Writer' is included:
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : - Include component \COM+ REGDB, caption: 'COM+ REGDB'
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : Creating shadow set {b7e69eb8-32eb-4903-b51b-f4ebeb81ea1b} ...
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : Adding volume \\?\Volume{dafc2de1-1663-11df-8f34-806e6f6e6963}\ [C:\] to the shadow set...
2010-02-10 14:25:20 : Preparing for backup ...
2010-02-10 14:25:21 : (Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
2010-02-10 14:25:21 : (Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
2010-02-10 14:25:21 : Creating the Volume Shadow Copy...
2010-02-10 14:25:21 : (Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)

I noticed several posts about this same thing, but no resolution. What am I doing wrong?

[TGRMN Software]

Hello

Can you please send the entire log to support@tgrmn.com ?

thanks!
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[excelsium]

Well I'm just doing a basic a to b backup and with VV launcher it doesn't work with VSS enabled, the regular ViceVersa compare and execute thing through the main interface does work however, with VV launcher it simply gets stuck at the "copying files"

2010-03-21 20:47:24 : ---- Start Execution ----
2010-03-21 20:47:24 : ---- Backup (Mirror Source to Target) (Source: C:\DATA\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile\ | C:\DATA\Documents\ Target: C:\Users\Acer\Documents\My Dropbox\Firefox\ | C:\Users\Acer\Documents\My Dropbox\Documents\) ----
2010-03-21 20:47:24 : ---- Start copying ----
2010-03-21 20:47:24 : -- Copying to target...
2010-03-21 20:47:24 : Initializing Volume Shadow Copy DLL ...
2010-03-21 20:47:24 : Creating Volume Shadow Copy for C:\ ...
2010-03-21 20:47:24 : Gathering writer metadata...
2010-03-21 20:47:26 : Initializing writer metadata...
2010-03-21 20:47:26 : Listing writer metadata ...
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : Selecting VSS components ...
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'Task Scheduler Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \TasksStore, caption: 'Tasks Store'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \WriterMetadataStore, caption: 'VSS Express Writer Metadata Store'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'Performance Counters Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \PerformanceCounters, caption: 'Performance Counters'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'System Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \System Files, caption: 'System Files'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'ASR Writer' is excluded.
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'WMI Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \WMI, caption: 'Windows Managment Instrumentation'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'MSSearch Service Writer' is excluded.
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'Registry Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \Registry, caption: 'Registry'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'COM+ REGDB Writer' is included:
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : - Include component \COM+ REGDB, caption: 'COM+ REGDB'
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : * Writer 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' is excluded.
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : Creating shadow set {32f93d59-e1cd-4da8-a9d2-bfef466b95b6} ...
2010-03-21 20:47:27 : Adding volume \\?\Volume{5c578e33-32d6-11df-bec1-806e6f6e6963}\ [C:\] to the shadow set...
2010-03-21 20:47:28 : Creating the Volume Shadow Copy...

yea it gets stuck at "Creating the Volume Shadow Copy" using VVLauncher..

what is the solution?

Thanks

[TGRMN Software]

What Windows version are you running VVLauncher and ViceVersa on?
thanks
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[excelsium]

Windows 7 x86

[TGRMN Software]

Thanks, are you using the latest version and build 2.5 for Windows 7?
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[alecmascot]

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, please write to support @ tgrmn . com , we will send instructions on how to activate VSS debugging in ViceVersa. thanks
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