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Backup failing with a failure occured querying the writer status

Backup is failing witht the below error. Veritas and server have all avalible patches server has been restarted and the vss admin list writers have been run with no errors.

Job ended: 20 November 2008 at 11:12:22
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xe000fed1 - A failure occurred querying the Writer status.
Final error category: Resource Errors

For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-65233

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Backup- \\MAGDC01\D: Data
V-79-57344-34110 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\MAGDC01\Shadow?Copy?Components". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
Snapshot provider error (0xE000FED1): A failure occurred querying the Writer status.
Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.
Writer Name: Event Logs, Writer ID: {EEE8C692-67ED-4250-8D86-390603070D00}, Last error: The VSS Writer failed. The operation cannot be retried (0x800423f4), State: Failed during prepare snapshot operation (8).
V-79-57344-34110 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\MAGDC01\System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
Snapshot provider error (0xE000FED1): A failure occurred querying the Writer status.
Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.
Writer Name: Registry, Writer ID: {AFBAB4A2-367D-4D15-A586-71DBB18F8485}, Last error: The VSS Writer ran out of memory or resources (0x800423f1), State: Failed during prepare snapshot operation (8).

mekhet30

Do u have enough diskspace to do the AOFO snapshot?

Try this, plug en external USB HDD with plenty space into the server. Configure the AOFO agent to use the external drive to do the snapshot.

What does the Windows Event Viewer say?

Cheers

Bhaskar CP

Try running the command 'vssadmin list writers' in command prompt of machine MAGDC01 and find which writer is failing. Check the Status of each writer, usually this wil be fixed by a reboot, but since this is DC I am not sure how you are going to do this.

You may also want to do a reegistering of dlls.
check the below article, it may help
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/261993.htm

Bhaskar CP

Has this been fixed? Please let me know if you need any help with the same.

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MGio4

I've been able to resolve this issue with a reboot of the system being backed up. Have you tried this?

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Pradeep Kini

I am seeing a similar issue. In order to check whether the provider service is starting in time, do we have any debug logging to be enabled ?
would appreciate information on the work around.

dataflex47

From what I am aware of there is no logging for this issue. (other then the obvious errors of course) it is more process of elimination. This is the only way I was able to bypass this issue. Although I am happy if someone has an alternative because backing up individual mailbox stores is a bit messy when you have a few of them

IT-Battery

Hi All-

I had tried all options previously discussed here and elsewehere without success. I received the exact same error but it was caused by a consistency check failing when the First Storage Group was being backed up. Turning off the consistency check option altogether or selecting the "Continue with backup if consistency check fails" option did the trick for me.

Sure hope that helps someone out there because it drove me nuts for a week.