NTBackup 0x8007000e VSS Error
SBS Server 2003 SP1 with NTBackup has been running sucessfully for nearly a year. A week back I realised the backups were failing, and the free hard disk space was down to about 800Mb on the C drive!
I've free'd up roughly 2GB by moving the Exchange database to another drive, but still the backups are failing with the below errors:
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0x8007000e.
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.
Please Advise?
I've free'd up roughly 2GB by moving the Exchange database to another drive, but still the backups are failing with the below errors:
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:0x8007000e.
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.
Please Advise?
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No. VSS is used to make a snapshot of the data immidiately prior to backup and this has to be on the current drive - you will have to move something else.
There's lots you can move off your C partition. If your user shares are still there, then moving those will move VSS. FYI, VSS does not take a snapshot immediately prior to backup. To clarify, Volume Shadow Copy Snapshot service takes a snapshot twice a day at 7:00am and at Noon... creating stored versions of your network shares. Users can restore previous versions of their own files in their redirected My Documents folder.
VSS also refers to Volume Shadow Service, which works in concert with NTBackup to allow full backups of running services. But it does need some breathing room to run.
Take a look at this document which will help you move other things off your C partition though:
http://sbsurl.com/movedata
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VSS also refers to Volume Shadow Service, which works in concert with NTBackup to allow full backups of running services. But it does need some breathing room to run.
Take a look at this document which will help you move other things off your C partition though:
http://sbsurl.com/movedata
Jeff
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Nothing is left to be moved.
All that remains is the Windows Partition, Documents and Settings, Program Files and Inetpub.
I managed to find how to move the VSS storage to another drive. Right click on the hard drive, Properties. Shadow Copies, then change the drive the Shadow Copies are stored on.
Thanks anyway!
All that remains is the Windows Partition, Documents and Settings, Program Files and Inetpub.
I managed to find how to move the VSS storage to another drive. Right click on the hard drive, Properties. Shadow Copies, then change the drive the Shadow Copies are stored on.
Thanks anyway!
That doesn't actually change the drive that the Shadow Copies are stored on... it changes which drives have them created. This would have been done automatically if you had run the Configure Backup Wizard, but hopefully you now have File Version Retention enabled with Shadow Copies.
How big is your C: partition to begin with?
Jeff
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How big is your C: partition to begin with?
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Hi Jeff,
If you click on the C drive, under the Shadow copies tab, click on settings. You get the option for Storage Area, located on this volume.
This looks like it stores the C Volume Shadow copies, on the D drive.
C partition was 12GB due to being a Dell pre-install machine
If you click on the C drive, under the Shadow copies tab, click on settings. You get the option for Storage Area, located on this volume.
This looks like it stores the C Volume Shadow copies, on the D drive.
C partition was 12GB due to being a Dell pre-install machine
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There's not much else that I could move to create new space now