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James_Walton
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13 years ago

0xe000fed1 - A failure occurred querying the Writer status.

Hi

My backup to tape job for a server running 4 Hyper-V VMs has suddenly started failing. I haven't changed any options in the backup job. Here is the full error (I don't have AOFO selected in the backup job so why is it throwing this error?):

 

Backup
V-79-57344-65233 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\hostserver.domain.com\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\VM". 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: Microsoft Hyper-V, Writer ID: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}, Last error: The VSS Writer failed, but the operation can be retried (0x800423f3), State: Waiting for backup complete notification (5).
This is then repeated for each of the 4 VMs on the server. This has failed twice in a row now.
 
This is seen in the event viewer:
 
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IVssAsrWriterBackup::GetAsrMetadata.  hr = 0x80042411, A critical volume selected for backup exists on a disk which cannot be backed up by ASR.
. 
 
Operation:
   PrepareForBackup event
 
Context:
   Execution Context: ASR Writer
   Execution Context: Writer
   Writer Class Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Name: ASR Writer
   Writer Instance ID: {d4d086f9-fed2-4844-895c-668a8aaf78dd}
 
Error-specific details:
 
Followed by:
 
Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: ASR writer Error 0x80042411.  hr = 0x00000000, The operation completed successfully.
. 
 
Operation:
   PrepareForBackup event
 
Context:
   Execution Context: ASR Writer
   Execution Context: Writer
   Writer Class Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Name: ASR Writer
   Writer Instance ID: {d4d086f9-fed2-4844-895c-668a8aaf78dd}
 
Error-specific details:
 
 

 

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  • James_Walton's avatar
    James_Walton
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Hi CraigV,

     

    I have not had chance to reboot the server unfortunately, but I am installing windows updates this evening, so will apply the fix and reboot. I will let you know if it fixes my query.

     

  • CandiH's avatar
    CandiH
    13 years ago

    I'm running into this same issue...was wondering if you found a fix for your problem yet...very similar symptoms we are seeing.

  • James_Walton's avatar
    James_Walton
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Hi CandiH,

    I re-registered the DLLs as per the above article, and rebooted the server but haven't had chance to run the backup job again yet. It runs on schedule on Wednesday evening so I will report back on Thursday.

    Cheers

    James

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