Greetings, we have a BE 2010 R2 Running on 2008 R2 STD server and currently experiencing backup problems. Looks like I have 2 issues, a few vss writers are in error state and also Event ID 11 "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR4"
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Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {2d04dd9e-7f50-4d73-a209-80e9948d2460}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {18d13944-9659-4b05-a29f-254176b9b83f}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {316433d1-184e-4b49-b119-531ad256f861}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
Writer Instance Id: {5a5e8043-d7b4-42e5-89dd-e039472b677a}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {db6fab26-69d8-4906-b876-5ce442d03c8e}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {5355b534-732a-4f2b-b8ba-73bf64063263}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {1bf8aaa9-a5f7-4fa7-bfca-dcbf3f2a880d}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {a03128e5-ee5f-4291-9782-aefa7ef3ab9c}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {627bd54e-9888-443a-ae46-09c5913ae911}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {d180c79c-c74f-4f3f-bff6-7029c764d465}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
Writer Instance Id: {eeea94bc-4ecf-453b-83db-8ce7f080156e}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {21ce4154-6e49-4a03-929d-8d6bad8a7080}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
thanks in advance for your help!
