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Sacha_Brown
Level 5
11 years ago

Exchange 2013 backup fails with Backup Exec 2014

For the past week I've been having failures with my backup of Exchange. I get the errors:   V-79-57344-34070 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "Microsoft Information Store". Sna...
2014
Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    Sacha_Brown
    10 years ago

    I restarted the server and was able to run successful backups.

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pkh
Moderator
10 years ago

This is to be expected because VSS will always be invoked the OS.

Strange as it may seems, try enabling AOF and then specifically specify the use of VSS

BE 2012 - AOF, use MS provider.png

This has helped in some cases.