MS Shadow Copy Provider and BE VSS provider
Created: 22 Mar 2013 | Updated: 22 Mar 2013 | 2 comments
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Hi,
After some VM backup failures II found 2 VSS providers in our VCENTER server.
The Backup Exec VSS provider service curently is stopped and set to manual but as far as I know we must don't have 2 providers side by side.
I don't know if setting the Backup Exec VSS provider service totally disabled is enough or do I have to completely remove it? and If I have to remove it what is the proper procedure?
thank you all in advance for your help
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Not true you can have multiple VSS providers on one system
The BE provider service creates a duplicate of itself during a backup job and that duplicate service then starts. At the end of the job the extra service stops and is removed.
If you want to see the effect when a job is NOT running then run
pre-freeze-script.bat (should be in windows folder)
Then open your services applet (or refresh it) and take a look at the list of services (an extra be vss one with a slightly different name will appear)
then run post-freeze-script.bat
You kind of need to tell us what your problem is as I think you are currently concentrating on the wrong things.
Thank you very much for your descriptive answer.
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