No Snapshot

[Rainwalker]

I am unable to create a snapshot...receive the following message..
"Unable to create static copy of active snapshot"...what might be causing this ?

[Acadia]

Rainwalker, the Raxco website says this:

http://www.raxco.com/support/windows/kb_details.cfm?kbid=419

Good luck,
Acadia

[chrome_sturmen]

couldnt he switch copying services to resolve this problem? switch from volume shadow service to the other?

[vhick]

if the the above link still didn't resolve the issue, try to switch services from vss to rss. open the command prompt and put this command:

cd \$ISR\$APP\Setup hit enter

ISRSetup -install -rss hit enter

[screamer]

I had this issue and solved it via changing the copy engine. FDISR (by default) uses the RSS copy engine (a Raxco product) I switched copy engines to the Microsoft copy engine, VSS:

cd \$ISR\$APP\Setup hit enter

ISRSetup -install -vss hit enter

re-boot and you should be OK

hth,

...screamer

[Rainwalker]

As soon as the problem appeared i rebooted........when this did nothing i reinstalled.....still no fix so i posted here...the offered solutions did not work.....thanks though........any other thoughts ?

[Rainwalker]

Is it necessary to have Volume Shadow Copy Service enabled for the program to work ?

[Peter2150]

{QUOTE-> Is it necessary to have Volume Shadow Copy Service enabled for the program to work ? <-QUOTE}

I don't think it has to be started but it has to run. Do you have any other backup program that uses VSS. I found FDISR didn't like it with ShadowProtect, so i switched back to RSS. Now all is happy, and FDISR is quicker.

Pete

[Rainwalker]

@ Pete no other programs.........i changed Volume Shadow Copy Service to manual, went back to rss and now all seems to be working..

A thank you to all ...