08-09-2010 03:09 AM
For a long time now my setup had only 1 Hyper-V server. Backups of virtual machines has been completed succesfully without this kind of error ever. This error introduced itself before this weekend,- I set up a new Hyper-V Server and at the same time created new selection lists for my backup jobs. Backup failed with this error:
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Job Completion Status
Job ended: 6. august 2010 at 20:58:06
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xe000fed1 - A failure occurred querying the Writer status.
Final error category: Resource Errors
For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-65233
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Errors
BackupV-79-57344-65233 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\SERVER01.ocspremaster.intern\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\VRTSERVER01". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
Snapshot provider error (0xE000FED1): A failure occurred querying the Writer status.
Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.
Writer Name: Microsoft Hyper-V, Writer ID: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}, Last error: The VSS Writer failed. The operation cannot be retried (0x800423f4), State: Waiting for backup complete notification (5).
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I did VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS on the Hyper-V server VRTSERVER01 is hosted on, all writers come up with
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
I have 6 virtual server, but it's the same server (VRTSERVER01) causing the failure every time. VRTSERVER01 is also one of the new virtual servers I added before the weekend. The difference between VRTSERVER01 and other virtual servers is that while the other servers have 1 vhd drive , VRTSERVER has three, one IDE and to SCSI vhd drives. Could the SCSI drives cause this error ?
From reading the documentation, the troubleshooting expects errors in the vss writers, so no help from there. Also I have rebooted the Hyper-V server, still same error.
Solved! Go to Solution.
01-25-2011 12:53 PM
Hello,
Sorry for not getting back to you, I hadn't checked back here in a while. You need to re-register the VSS DLLs on the Hyper-V Server Host, then restart the host server.
As per the document How to Re-register Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Components on Windows 2008 a batch file needs to be created with the following in it:
08-09-2010 03:31 AM
10-15-2010 06:28 AM
Sorry, not related to licenses. I have two Hyper-V servers and two Hyper-V licenses.
Have rebooted the server several times since then. I have multiple guests on both servers, all success. The only guest failing is this one virtual machine where the only difference from the other servers is that there is an extra SCSI interface with an extra virtual harddrive.
10-27-2010 02:04 PM
11-02-2010 09:46 AM
Take a look at this link: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/failure-occurred-querying-writer-status-server-2008-r2-x64-hy...
I wrote a detailed explanation of the problem I was having and what I had done. My solution was to reregister the VSS DLLs as detailed here: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH70486
11-19-2010 01:30 AM
Do I re-register the VSS DLLs on the Hyper-V Server or the Virtual Server ?
01-25-2011 12:53 PM
Hello,
Sorry for not getting back to you, I hadn't checked back here in a while. You need to re-register the VSS DLLs on the Hyper-V Server Host, then restart the host server.
As per the document How to Re-register Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Components on Windows 2008 a batch file needs to be created with the following in it:
04-26-2011 05:20 AM
Hello All,
I have this same issue in a DAG environment with Exchange 2010 SP1
(Final error: 0xe000fed1 - A failure occurred querying the Writer status),
Snapshot provider error (0xE000FED1): A failure occurred querying the Writer status.
Check the Windows Event Viewer for details. Writer Name: Exchange Server, Writer ID: {76FE1AC4-15F7-4BCD-987E-8E1ACB462FB7}, Last error: The VSS...
i have excluded the remaining lines.
If i try the reregister VSS script, will it work for my environment?
I really need your support.
Itsmeaffinity, if you are viewing, this kindly help. Cos i have been backing up successfully until the storage space got filled up and the logs were purged.
04-26-2011 05:47 AM
Hi, Squirrels suggestion did the trick for me.
04-26-2011 09:23 AM
Hi oskraremil,
What Exchange Environment are u using? is it a DAG?
04-26-2011 11:38 AM
Hi Oskaremil,
I guess i did not look at your initial post. i can see now that you had the issue on Hyper-V and not on Exchange.
I was wondering if i cud also run the script on the Exchange server to resolve my issue?
04-26-2011 11:50 AM
Hi Squirrels,
Will this reregistration of VSS work for my Exchange DAG environment having the same issue as u did?
Do i run the script on the two Exchange servers? both servers are virtualized on seperate hosts.
An urgent reply would be appreciated. This error just started last week when the Exchange DAG backup was initiated.