I am attempting to run full exchange backups on Saturday and then incrementals the rest of the week. Full backups complete successfully, but when I attempt to run the differential I recieve the error: The backup exec agen for Microsoft Exchange was not used to create the last full backup of this database. You must use the exchange agent to run a full backup before you run a differntial or incremental backup. It appears the agent is being used though.
Family Name: "Media created 1/7/2012 1:41:40 AM"
Backup of "\\servername.domain.com\Microsoft Information Store\SG1"
Backup set #7 on storage media #19
Backup set description: "seerver-SG1"
Backup Method: Full - Database & Logs (flush committed logs)
Microsoft Exchange Server Agent: Started
Unfortunately my BE server is Windows 2008 x64 and does not support installing the Exchange 2003 admin tools. We have large storage groups and do not have a large enough window to run a full backup nightly even if we had infininte stroage space available. I attempted to backup multiple SG at once in seperate jobs, but the disk I/O was reported as too high and the 2nd+ job failed instantly. I recieved Backup job name: The job failed with the following error: A failure occurred querying the Writer status. I applied patch 940349 to exchange, but contine to recieve the error if more than one SG is attempted to be backed up at a time.
Click an error below to locate it in the job log
Backup- server.domain.com
V-79-57344-65233 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\server.domain.com\Microsoft Information Store...
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...
Any suggestions are appreciated? We are in the process of building an Exchange 2010 environment...just need a couple months
