[FIXED] Volume Shadow Copy on WinXP

[mixmax]

We use PowerArchiver 2011. On Windows7 we can backup
open Files with Volume Shadow Copy. But this is not possible
on WinXP. Volume Shadow Copy service is started , also
as Administrator.We get error message:

Dateien, die Momentan im Gebrauch sind, können mit Volume Shadow Copy Service komprimiert werden. Aktivieren Sie bitte diese Anwendung bevor Sie die Dateien, die zur Zeit gebraucht werden komprimieren. Wenn Sie 7-ZIP-Kompression verwenden, führen Sie die Anwendung mit Adminrechten aus.

[spwolf]

did you try using VSS on some other computer, not only that one?
(so something is not wrong with Volume Shadow Service on that specific computer).

[Mili]

i have just tested VSS on an XP machine and it worked fine.
I tested both English and Multilingual versions...must be something specific.

[mixmax]

I tried it on another WS and had the same problem. So I tried
to use Volume Shadow Copy with NTBackup and got BSOD.
I found a link how to resolve the problem ( http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic94820-5.html )
After uninstalling all storgae volumes in device manager everything wored fine inclusive Power Archiver and open files.
So I did it also on the first WS and here also everything went
right.

But I cannot get PACL V7 to work with VSS.

[Mili]

Glad that's solved, thanks for letting us know.

What command are you using for PACL and it isn't working?

[mixmax]

See the following output of pacl command
( open files ntuser.dat* are listed during command, but
are not in zip-file ):

D:\test>pacomp -uvss -a -w -k -r -p -c2 d:\test\arch-admin.zip "c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\administrator\ntu*"
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 7.00 [Mar 22 2012]
Copyright(c) 1998-2012 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.powerarchiver.com
Press <ENTER> to continue.

Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2
Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com

Archive: d:\test\arch-admin.zip
preparing to compress...
adding: NTUSER.DAT --> Done. [0%]
adding: NTUSER.DAT.LOG --> Done. [0%]
adding: ntuser.ini --> Done. [0%]
adding: ntuser.pol --> Done. [0%]

All OK

D:\test>echo errorlevel:0
errorlevel:0

D:\test>unzip -l arch-admin.zip
Archive: arch-admin.zip
Length Date Time Name
------ ---- ---- ----
190 03-27-12 14:59 ntuser.ini
1282 03-27-12 13:52 ntuser.pol
------ -------
1472 2 files

[spwolf]

New PACL:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha125/pacl700.exe

you will need to register pauac.dll via regsvr32 if you dont have PA installed on same system, for VSS support to work (it must register Activex dll with Windows).