Bakup Exec 2010 R2 x64

[Prajil]

Dear Team,

This is my first entry in Symantec forum so rquesting you to please provide any solution for this error,

In our organisation we are using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2 with windows Server 2003 R2 x64. few days before this error start to appear in my job list and failed my backup too. The destination server or failure is happening in Windows 2008 R2 Server (Installed in VM ware). I already restart VSS service in services . But i can see that in service list one service is stoped named as 'Backup exec VSS provider'. When i am trying to start that service i am getting a error and its not starting also. In cmd line i typed  'vssadmin list providers' but unfortunately i can not find any service running on it
.

here is the error when i am trying to start 'Backup exec VSS provider'

The Backup Exec VSS Provider service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Backup- XXXX.com
- AOFO: Initialization failure on: "XXXX.com\System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsof... V-79-10000-11217 - VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot faile...

any help highly appreciated

[pkh]

I would suggest that you upgrade to BE 2010 R3 which is the latest version and it solves quite a bit of VSS writer problems. Your existing licence keys will work.  You can download BE 2010 R3 from either the fileconnect site or

http://trialware.norton.com/files/fc/Backup_Exec_2010_13.0.5204_MultiPlatforms_Multilingual_DVD.iso

After your upgrade, do not forget to run LiveUpdate a couple of time to update it to SP3 and the latest hotfixes.

After you have upgraded to R3 SP3, push out the remote agent again.

[Colin_Weaver]

I am not sure you are meant to start that provider in that way.

What happens if (inside the affacted VM) you run pre-freeze-script.bat form the windows folder and then refresh your services list, do you get a second BE VSS service listed that is then started. Note if this works makes sure you run post-thaw-script.bat afterwards to return the VSS services to the standby position.

These two batch files are usually called by the VMWare Tools at the start of the snapshot request and during the removal and activate the BE VSS provider during backup operations.

[CraigV]

Server 2003 has a VSS Rollup Patch that can be installed if you continue to receive these errors after upgrading to BE 2010 R3...might be worth your while to download and install it. Thanks!

[Prajil]

Dear, PKH

Is there any other way to fix this issue (without upgrade). Still now i am facing the same error.

[Prajil]

Hi all,

I Re-install the Symantec backup agent on client server, restart the services, try without AOFO and with AOFO (from media server), Re-register the dll (below mentioned)

cd /d %windir%\system32

Net stop vss

Net stop swprv

regsvr32 ole32.dll

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll

regsvr32 vss_ps.dll

vssvc /register

regsvr32 /i swprv.dll

regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll

regsvr32 es.dll

regsvr32 stdprov.dll

regsvr32 vssui.dll

regsvr32 msxml.dll

regsvr32 msxml3.dll

regsvr32 msxml4.dll

But unfortunately error is still there.

[Prajil]

When i am starting Backu Exec VSS Provider in Service getting one error

"Windows could not start the Backup Exec VSS Provider service on Local Computer.

error 1053: The servvice did not respond to the Start or control request in a timely fasion"

here is the list of my VSS provider list

c:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\RAWS>vssadmin list writers

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

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: 'System Writer'

   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}

   Writer Instance Id: {b0d03ddd-aefb-4114-a8c3-0836e9ddc47f}

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'

   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}

   Writer Instance Id: {68c68875-fa22-4a39-bd6d-d37a9eea9d26}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'

   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}

   Writer Instance Id: {9a49ad25-b3a5-4bb3-98d6-06b41f884209}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FRS Writer'

   Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}

   Writer Instance Id: {1f751ae1-a97a-4883-8076-d72a9a38b9f8}

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'

   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}

   Writer Instance Id: {2aae6498-0be6-4bfe-b525-680f8d686b24}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'

   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}

   Writer Instance Id: {8bdaffce-1f05-441e-9a00-381639a5b2a6}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'

   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}

   Writer Instance Id: {cbccc07a-7358-41c4-9f50-9f88cb1ce64b}

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'

   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}

   Writer Instance Id: {90832016-c4fe-4ca7-9103-df688be05f45}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Certificate Authority'

   Writer Id: {6f5b15b5-da24-4d88-b737-63063e3a1f86}

   Writer Instance Id: {a899bbc3-577e-4102-8a0c-4efb3f1c9a44}

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'

   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}

   Writer Instance Id: {f5b325bc-1c21-483e-831a-43be23c97607}

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'

   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}

   Writer Instance Id: {458a1cdc-9871-4473-b18f-b55fce3dcca6}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'NTDS'

   Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}

   Writer Instance Id: {2aaab894-14f9-4d27-b376-370883c416ec}

   State: [7] Failed

   Last error: Timed out

please give me a solution for this. Still now also i am getting the same error when i am running the same backup

[pkh · Accepted solution]

Re-registering the VSS dll's on the media server is not going to help. It is the VSS on your Server 2008 server that matters, but do not re-register the dll's on this server as it will cause problems. Have you upgraded your BE as I have suggested earlier? If not, do so