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Hyper-V CSV volume snapshot do not clean up after backup fail.

pels
Level 3

We have a pool with 10 CSV clusters and one of the clusterdisk is stuck in redirect mode since the beengine for some reason stopped in the middle of a hyper-v backup.

Normally hyper-v will go back and clean up after 30 min with no backupjobs beeing initiated, but this have not happened. Ive checked the vss writers and there is shadow snapshots there. 

We probably need to clean up ourself, but im not quite sure how i can do this, and i really dont want to destroy make something wrong on the clusterdisk since many of our production VMs reside on that.

Here are the output from list shadows.

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Contents of shadow copy set ID: {ce87ab9f-0b4e-43e7-be52-6c1a67c1babc}
   Contained 2 shadow copies at creation time: 17.07.2012 17:37:06
      Shadow Copy ID: {8e4530f6-ac7e-45e8-b363-54a0a977224c}
         Original Volume: (\\?\Volume{cb284515-ef01-4757-b870-61e54784755a}\)\\
\Volume{cb284515-ef01-4757-b870-61e54784755a}\
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy64
         Originating Machine: ****.*****
         Service Machine: *******.*****
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
         Type: Backup
         Attributes: Differential, Auto recovered

      Shadow Copy ID: {a3e4c82c-44af-4795-bdf7-3faa4ec84978}
         Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{3209b8c2-942b-11e1-ba76-806e6f6e6963}\
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy63
         Originating Machine: *******.*****
         Service Machine: ******com
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'

 

Can anyone explain me how we can get the disk in online mode again, and restart the backupjob.

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pels
Level 3

Since i could not wait for support, i tried a reboot of the host and that fixed the issues.

 

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pels
Level 3

I tried to delete the snapshots, but got the following error:

 

Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context.  Try
 removing them with the
backup application which created them.

pels
Level 3

Since i could not wait for support, i tried a reboot of the host and that fixed the issues.

 

Backup_Exec1
Level 6
Employee Accredited Certified

Hi

If this issue fixed you can mark this post this as solved.

Thanks