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XTREM1337
Level 4
12 years ago

An existing snapshot is no longer valid and cannot be mounted for subsequent operations(1542)

I received an error during my Exchange backup   '' An existing snapshot is no longer valid and cannot be mounted for subsequent operations(1542) ''   I thought that I just need to delete the ...
  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    12 years ago

    from a command line:

    bpfis query

    This displays any acive snapshots created by bpfis

    You can then use:

    bpfis delete -id snapshot_id_found_above

    but you need to try and find out why it happened

    also check VSS  using "vssadmin list writers" as  you may need a reboot anyway