Backups in 2003 SP2

[Guest Phil]

Hi,

We are having a serious problem with ntbackup on our Windows 2003 Standard

servers. The problem originally occured when backing up the system state on

the Domain controller. The backup fails after a few minutes with an error

relating to the Volume Shadow failing at its first attempt. I then tried some

investigation, and found that I can't backup up anything, on any of our

servers (not just the DC) - even a single file from the C: drive. I get the

same error relating to the volume shadow failing on its first attempt during

backup. Typically I've left the exact error message on site (its not near

where i work). I don't think its the problem that people have had with SP1.

Has anyone seen anything similar? I'll post the exact error message when I

retrieve it.