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nhiggins
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18 years ago

AOFO: Initialization failure

Hi,
  I am having a problem getting BE to take backups of a particular server. This is the only server affected in this way.

Running the latest 10.x agent and the firewall settings have been double checked etc.

The error is:

AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\90MINUTE\C:". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider that you selected cannot snap this volume. Select the default snapshot provider, and then run the job again.
 
AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\90MINUTE\Shadow?Copy?Components". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider that you selected cannot snap this volume. Select the default snapshot provider, and then run the job again.


Here is the output of vssadmin list writers:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
 
Writer name: 'System Writer'
  Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
  Writer Instance Id: {85a3cfb7-d7b8-4514-8cbb-686cd0bbf18e}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
  Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
  Writer Instance Id: {6a87407b-9396-4d13-841f-8c05c4faa340}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
  Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
  Writer Instance Id: {6e0ad90f-6eac-4213-a90f-2d032e07cca3}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
  Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
  Writer Instance Id: {7dedff82-ed68-4c0a-a8b7-0db362317e3d}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
  Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
  Writer Instance Id: {90845872-5973-40af-945b-064bed6d073a}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
  Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
  Writer Instance Id: {2cd8d195-86a2-48de-b476-45cd0a1947c6}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
  Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
  Writer Instance Id: {949107d9-3c2d-4213-ae1c-e0efe3c7fe81}
  State: [1] Stable
  Last error: No error
 

The service has been restarted etc, but still no joy. Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Nathan

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