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I have a Windows 2008r2 server that is running Veritas Backup Exec and has been running for several years. Unless something goes wrong the job status always shows "backup successful". Starting on or around 5-9-19 I started getting a slightly different status that shows "success with exceptions". I opened a ticket with Veritas support and after a little work with an engineer it was determined that my backups were actually running and backing up my files. However, I felt like I needed to dig a little deeper and figure out what has changed on the server to effect the backup.
The following is the error I get from the backup log. See it states an issue with VSS about another snapshot running. I have not made any changes whatsoever to the server. I had not even ran Windows updates until after I started having this issue.
- Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "F:". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11233 - VSS Snapshot error. A Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot is already running on the target computer. Only one snapshot
can run at a time. Try running the job later.
I found some information saying to turn off any Shadow copies on shared volumes so I checked the settings on the server by right-clicking the drives on the server, Properties, Shadow copies. As I thought I did NOT have any shadow copies enabled on this server. But, one thing I did notice was a funny looking volume listed under drives like c:, d:, etc. The funny looking volume is shown below.
\\?\Volume{d3969e0b-34db-11e0-b58c-806e6f6e6963}\
I have had problems with backups in the past and many times if you have a large external drive or something similar connected and the drive is not formatted GPT you will get some strange VSS issues that can show up with your backups like Veritas Backup Exec.
Can anyone tell me what this funny looking volume represents or what it is and how I can remove it in hopes it will clear up my "success with exceptions" error in my backup routine?
thanks
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The following is the error I get from the backup log. See it states an issue with VSS about another snapshot running. I have not made any changes whatsoever to the server. I had not even ran Windows updates until after I started having this issue.
- Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "F:". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11233 - VSS Snapshot error. A Microsoft Volume
Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot is already running on the target computer. Only one snapshot
can run at a time. Try running the job later.
I found some information saying to turn off any Shadow copies on shared volumes so I checked the settings on the server by right-clicking the drives on the server, Properties, Shadow copies. As I thought I did NOT have any shadow copies enabled on this server. But, one thing I did notice was a funny looking volume listed under drives like c:, d:, etc. The funny looking volume is shown below.
\\?\Volume{d3969e0b-34db-11e0-b58c-806e6f6e6963}\
I have had problems with backups in the past and many times if you have a large external drive or something similar connected and the drive is not formatted GPT you will get some strange VSS issues that can show up with your backups like Veritas Backup Exec.
Can anyone tell me what this funny looking volume represents or what it is and how I can remove it in hopes it will clear up my "success with exceptions" error in my backup routine?
thanks
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