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System State backup failind due to VSS error

dce_support
Level 3
I have a system that runs Symantec Backup exec version 12.5. The backup failed the other night with error:

Backup- DCEORA2
- AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
V-79-10000-11212 - VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider was in an incorrect state.  

The backup has continued to fail every night on this.

I opened command prompt and ran VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS and got this output :

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
 
Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {ab947c49-c2d7-4347-9568-fc6abc3846dd}
   State: [7] Failed
   Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {9fea0752-b5a9-4c82-bed9-38d8a8ec4832}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
   Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
   Writer Instance Id: {074269c6-ac33-4309-8a28-da64f6419e58}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {b985a2a3-bbd9-4f08-88c0-dbac320b4da8}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
   Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
   Writer Instance Id: {d922b7d8-1393-49ec-94e6-366ec879aa21}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {4dfcf039-ff32-40fc-b963-4136e4c54569}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error
 
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {fa384081-ffba-488c-83f7-b6f6f3b870ff}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Checked event viewer and did not see any errors in either applications or system regarding VSS.  Has anyone seen this before? 



 
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chicojrman
Level 6
try to disable the volume shadow copy service on the target server run the job see what the errors are. Or try to disable AOFO