Volume Shadow Copy

2012-02-06 Thread Nigel Parker 
Hi :-)

We have a windows 2003 server, that is fully upto date with service
packs and patches 
 
Every night the server runs an scheduled NTbackup
This has recently started to fail giving errors about unable to create
volume shadow copy 

The machine runs 4 Virtual machines running the Free Vmserver we
successfully backed up the machine with ntbackup and have restored the
running machines to another server, 

I did have some success creating a batch file before the backup 
With the following line 
vssadmin delete shadows /ALL

this worked for a few weeks and is now failing again
The machine has gone through a full disk check without problems (as I
thought this may be the issue)
 
Any help would be welcome 

Nigel Parker
Systems Engineer
Ultraframe (UK) Ltd
Tel:   01200 452329
Fax:   01200 452201
Web:   www.ultraframe.com
Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk



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Re: Volume Shadow Copy

2012-02-08 Thread Dean Cunningham 
what does vssadmin list writers and vssadmin list providers show?

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Nigel Parker
wrote:

> Hi
> The backup will run if I start it manually
> I will STOp/Start the Vss service in the batch file see how that works
> out
>
> Thanks
>

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RE: Volume Shadow Copy

2012-02-20 Thread Nigel Parker 
Hi 
Rebooting the machine sometimes works!
If I run the scheduled backup manually it works! But fails if scheduled 

I added this batch file before the backup runs 



net stop "Volume Shadow Copy"
net start "Volume Shadow Copy"

Net stop "VMware VSS Writer"
Net start "VMware VSS Writer"

vssadmin delete shadows /ALL




Listed below are the writers 


vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'VMware VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {62e7a4f1-a68a-4628-b6d2-aca8bbe221c7}
   Writer Instance Id: {74df8fdf-4b23-495c-980f-168465b3d307}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {92111c34-3dbe-4f81-9764-af5ad332c649}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
   Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
   Writer Instance Id: {58049280-4a95-473f-8e75-6ce6541e4572}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
   Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
   Writer Instance Id: {49e6c379-fa3d-4cae-8a5f-09e99f99e67b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {b5a81768-ada0-4845-88ae-3c8357653ab7}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {46fcfcff-cd0d-4005-abbb-942d1a4ba1db}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {5649eec4-5a2e-4916-a275-446084d17b77}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {bee8200a-d331-4a33-9bb8-d029f6921bbd}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
   Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
   Writer Instance Id: {e9c2b41c-b561-4dd1-ab07-c49875802f3f}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
   Writer Instance Id: {71530611-d832-4d24-9925-53f9501a5fe7}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: No error



Nigel Parker
Systems Engineer
Ultraframe (UK) Ltd
Tel:   01200 452329
Fax:   01200 452201
Web:   www.ultraframe.com
Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk





From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:dean.cunning...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 February 2012 02:28
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Volume Shadow Copy

what does vssadmin list writers and vssadmin list providers show?
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Nigel Parker  
wrote:
Hi
The backup will run if I start it manually
I will STOp/Start the Vss service in the batch file see how that works
out

Thanks
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RE: Volume Shadow Copy

2012-02-06 Thread Kim Longenbaugh 
Often, there's not enough disk space to create another snap.  I find that if 
you go into the Shadow Copy configuration and force the release of existing 
snapshots, that fixes problems.  Your bat file should do that.
Sometimes, for many reasons, VSS gets confused or corrupted (pick your favorite 
vague term), and the only thing that helps is to stop the VSS server and 
restart it.
So, you could add a line to your bat file to stop and start the service.



-Original Message-
From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Volume Shadow Copy

Hi :-)

We have a windows 2003 server, that is fully upto date with service
packs and patches 
 
Every night the server runs an scheduled NTbackup
This has recently started to fail giving errors about unable to create
volume shadow copy 

The machine runs 4 Virtual machines running the Free Vmserver we
successfully backed up the machine with ntbackup and have restored the
running machines to another server, 

I did have some success creating a batch file before the backup 
With the following line 
vssadmin delete shadows /ALL

this worked for a few weeks and is now failing again
The machine has gone through a full disk check without problems (as I
thought this may be the issue)
 
Any help would be welcome 

Nigel Parker
Systems Engineer
Ultraframe (UK) Ltd
Tel:   01200 452329
Fax:   01200 452201
Web:   www.ultraframe.com
Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk



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RE: Volume Shadow Copy

2012-02-07 Thread Nigel Parker 
Hi 
The backup will run if I start it manually 
I will STOp/Start the Vss service in the batch file see how that works
out 

Thanks 


-Original Message-
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: 06 February 2012 14:12
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Volume Shadow Copy

Often, there's not enough disk space to create another snap.  I find
that if you go into the Shadow Copy configuration and force the release
of existing snapshots, that fixes problems.  Your bat file should do
that.
Sometimes, for many reasons, VSS gets confused or corrupted (pick your
favorite vague term), and the only thing that helps is to stop the VSS
server and restart it.
So, you could add a line to your bat file to stop and start the service.



-Original Message-
From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Volume Shadow Copy

Hi :-)

We have a windows 2003 server, that is fully upto date with service
packs and patches 
 
Every night the server runs an scheduled NTbackup This has recently
started to fail giving errors about unable to create volume shadow copy 

The machine runs 4 Virtual machines running the Free Vmserver we
successfully backed up the machine with ntbackup and have restored the
running machines to another server, 

I did have some success creating a batch file before the backup With the
following line vssadmin delete shadows /ALL

this worked for a few weeks and is now failing again The machine has
gone through a full disk check without problems (as I thought this may
be the issue)
 
Any help would be welcome 

Nigel Parker
Systems Engineer
Ultraframe (UK) Ltd
Tel:   01200 452329
Fax:   01200 452201
Web:   www.ultraframe.com
Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk



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