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RCPAQAP
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12 years ago

System State failing to backup

I have set up a backup job with Backup Exec 2012, and it keeps failing on the system state backup.   - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "\\HAEM02\System?State". Snapshot technology u...
  • marcusolini's avatar
    12 years ago

    Hi.  Thank you for collecting all of the diagnostic information.  When able, as a diagnostic test, please set the snapshot differential areas for the system, boot, and other data volumes by following steps 15 to 18 below (note, the S: system volume should be set to the C: boot volume).  Then execute the backup job that is failing with "Unexpected provider error" and report the outcome.  Thank you.

    (15) C:\>VSSADMIN ADD SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=C: /ON=C:  /MaxSize=UNBOUNDED

    (16) C:\>VSSADMIN ADD SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=S: /ON=C:  /MaxSize=UNBOUNDED

    (17) C:\>VSSADMIN ADD SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=I: /ON=I:  /MaxSize=UNBOUNDED

    (18) C:\>VSSADMIN ADD SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=E: /ON=E:  /MaxSize=UNBOUNDED