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ShadowProtect ran smoothly for months. Installed Vipre Anti-Virus (GFI Business Agent is the service. Rebooted server. When the next scheduled ShadowProtect backup job ran, it caused the server (which is Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual server) to lose it's network connection. I could still get into server through Hyper-V manager and things seemed mostly normal, just no network. (Statically assigned IP.) Tried restoring network by disabling NIC, which locked up the server. Turned off server and started it back up. Checked to see if things were back to normal and they appeared to be. Restarted ShadowProtect job and lost network connection again. This time I restarted the server and disabled ShadowProtect for further research. I can't find any event logs related to hardware failure or NIC failures. There are plenty of events about not being able to communicate but no indication why... Vipre is still running now but now ShadowProtect. I'll be opening a ticket with StorageCraft but I'm afraid they'll tell me that it's a Vipre Anti-Virus issue. Any thoughts at all on what to look for would be greatly appreciated. ﻿
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ShadowProtect ran smoothly for months. Installed Vipre Anti-Virus (GFI Business Agent is the service. Rebooted server. When the next scheduled ShadowProtect backup job ran, it caused the server (which is Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual server) to lose it's network connection. I could still get into server through Hyper-V manager and things seemed mostly normal, just no network. (Statically assigned IP.) Tried restoring network by disabling NIC, which locked up the server. Turned off server and started it back up. Checked to see if things were back to normal and they appeared to be. Restarted ShadowProtect job and lost network connection again. This time I restarted the server and disabled ShadowProtect for further research. I can't find any event logs related to hardware failure or NIC failures. There are plenty of events about not being able to communicate but no indication why... Vipre is still running now but now ShadowProtect. I'll be opening a ticket with StorageCraft but I'm afraid they'll tell me that it's a Vipre Anti-Virus issue. Any thoughts at all on what to look for would be greatly appreciated. ﻿

ShadowProtect and/or Vipre conflict...

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

Anti-Virus Apps

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

Storage Software

The Windows operating systems have distinct methodologies for designing and implementing networks, and have specific systems to accomplish various networking processes, such as Exchange for email, Sharepoint for shared files and programs, and IIS for delivery of web pages. Microsoft also produces server technologies for networked database use, security and virtualization.