The SQL Server Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Writer ends up in a non-retryable error state. If you enable SQL Server VSS Writer trace, you might see the following exception, which indicates there's no database to freeze, resulting in an uns...
security accounts manager initialization failed because of the following error: Directory Services cannot start Security event 4776-finding the source Security Event ID 4742 - A computer account was changed - Password Last Set Security Event Log NOT logging. The event logging service has shut down. ...
Error: Unfreeze error: [Backup job failed. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer's data. A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: [SqlServerWriter]. Class ID: [{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}]. Instance ID: [{d0c7eea6-f80c-43e4-9625-8269bd1d...
1.Copy the script at the end of this blog and save it on the machine with the problem asGetCodeInfo.bat. Anywhere on local disk is fine. In this blog I will refer to this batch file as GetCodeInfo.bat. 2.Open the related setup/uninstall log th...
Protect the C:\DPMBACKUP folder or the \\sqlservername\DPMBACKUP share using DPM and wait for the initial replica to be created. There should be a dpmdb.bak in the C:\DPMBACKUPfolder as a result of the pre-backup script running, which was in turn copied to the DPM replica.Configure...
VSS OTHER: ERROR: VSS failed to process snapshot: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl hr = 0x80070057 VSS Permission Issue - Event ID 8194 VSS Restore Source Path Too Long Error VSS SqlServerWriter failing VSS Syste...
{c23c0987-4ebe-462f-9bd4-c90ffbefc725} Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 7/2/2014 8:00:02 PM Shadow Copy ID: {ad959229-4f9f-43ce-8c84-014fdbf81a08} Original Volume: (C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Volumes\Replica\SqlServerWriter\vol_850b95be-b942-4351-83bd-0a...
First published on MSDN on Jul 23, 2009 Recently I looked at an issue when upgrading from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 and in the middle of the upgrade...
Error: Unfreeze error: [Backup job failed. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer's data. A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: [SqlServerWriter]. Class ID: [{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}]. Instance ID: [{d0c7eea6-f80c-43e4-9625-8269bd1d...
This is a proactive Warning Alert raised by DPM to let the user know that they have either 1) protected too many SQL data sources belonging to the same Protected Server, or 2) has set the Express Full frequency too high, or 3) a combination of both. If the user...