# More backup woes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-backup-woes/595858>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-backup-woes/595858 "2011-09-10T21:52:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-backup-woes/595858/1 "2011-09-10T21:52:06Z")

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Using Genie Backup Manager Home 8.  
Recently upgraded to Windows 7, clean install on a new hard drive. Now that I’ve got everything loaded and working, as far as I can tell, I wanted to do a Disaster Recovery backup job.

Noting that the file backup job works just fine, but disaster recovery aborts with a hard error: failed to initialize Volume Shadow Copy Service.

I have thus far tried everything on this page: [http://www.genie9.com/support/kb/KnowledgeArticle.aspx?KBID=178](http://www.genie9.com/support/kb/KnowledgeArticle.aspx?KBID=178)

No luck. Any ideas? The batch fix kept failing out with a number of random errors, mostly around calls to DLLRegisterServer failing sometimes but not always. The lengthy turning of services on didn’t seem to do anything at all.

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**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-backup-woes/595858/2 "2011-09-12T13:58:47Z")

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Bump. Anyone?