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Process Dumps without installing the full Debugging Tools for Windows

2018-04-06
By: CK_God
On: April 6, 2018
In: Debugging, Windows
Tagged: debugging, process dumps, windows

During the course of various investigations, the need sometimes arises to collect Process dumps for analysis. There are various ways of doing this, using tools such as ProcDump, but I still like using ADPlus. Unfortunately to obtain ADplus you need to download and install the Debugging Tools for Windows, which are now part and parcel with the WDK, SDK or you can use the Visual Studio debugger. Getting the average customer/end user to install that is difficult, it can involve things like change control. Due to this, I decided to try and find out what was the bare minimum needed to generate ADPlus process dumpsRead More →

The case of the missing System Writer

2018-04-05
By: CK_God
On: April 5, 2018
In: Windows
Tagged: backup, vss, windows

Recently I was working on a problem for a Windows Server 2008 system where the daily incremental backups were failing. These backups had never worked, but the weekly full backups were successful. First step was reviewing the failed backup logs (these were CommVault logs), and you could see the following: and So, the next thing you do is run up a command prompt and check the vss writers on that server: The system writer was not listed. Next step was to check if there were any conflicting tasks such as AV scans running at the same time as the backup, there weren’t any. I thenRead More →

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