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rsmccall's avatar
rsmccall
Level 5
15 years ago

VSS Writer: System Writer failure

Two recent backups failed and logged the following error:  V-79-57344-34110 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service...
11.x and Earlier
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  • Hemant_Jain's avatar
    Hemant_Jain
    15 years ago

    Please ensure, following updates are applied:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887827
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833167
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349

    Also, see if you can go to properties of c:\(assuming windows folder is there), and go to shadow copy tab to check the settings of VSS on c:\. Make sure it is set to unlimited growth for the shadow copy. Also, make sure you have enough space on c:\. if not, change the drive for snapshot creation to an alternate volume from the shadow copy tab in the volume properties.

    Please mark it a solution, if this is useful.

    Thanks

Hemant_Jain's avatar
Hemant_Jain
Level 6
15 years ago

Please ensure, following updates are applied:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887827
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833167
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349

Also, see if you can go to properties of c:\(assuming windows folder is there), and go to shadow copy tab to check the settings of VSS on c:\. Make sure it is set to unlimited growth for the shadow copy. Also, make sure you have enough space on c:\. if not, change the drive for snapshot creation to an alternate volume from the shadow copy tab in the volume properties.

Please mark it a solution, if this is useful.

Thanks