Never had such a problem here; are you sure that Shadow Copy is enabled?

Even if it isn't, it should only result in an error message though, not a
crash.

If you look for something better, the imaging programs are the best.
Acronis, Ghost, BootitNG; all 3 are good.

Pop`


Rock wrote:
> <olivier.abot******.com> wrote
>
> Hi,
> I am too facing the same issue with ntbackup when attempting to backup
> the system state and wondered if you had any feed-back on this issue
> .....
> All I have noticed is that nt backup crashes all the time while
> backing up a driver called sbp2port.sys....I have search lots of forums
> for
> infos but could not find relevant infos about this problem ...also
> tried to re-intall ntbackup.msi but did not resolve the issue
>
> I would recommend you look for a different backup solution from
> ntbackup. It is an old, legacy app ported from NT, geared toward tape
> drives and hard drives. There are other, much better and more
> reliable backup solutions. I recommend using a drive imaging program
> such as Acronis True Image and saving the compressed images on
> external media such as a USB hard drive.