Hi
Master & media Solaris 10, 7.6.0.3.
Client Windows 2008 R2, 7.6.0.3
Backup of C drives, System state are failing.
Below is state of vss writers:
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
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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: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {4ddc59c7-58da-4d2f-9a6a-1f5a3accc58a}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {78b9f091-fb30-46af-b5c6-f5b212da66ec}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {ae164d46-88dc-499c-b681-8235bffd5971}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'OSearch14 VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {0ff1ce14-0201-0000-0000-000000000000}
Writer Instance Id: {8d3b8b83-512f-4b0a-924a-1e11ebc54adf}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {6c56c93b-a887-4b10-acd2-80a0eb63fbeb}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {b52612b0-63c7-4700-8936-2f15354a1a9c}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {08ce3241-b2d6-4f65-b48f-4104151c9a64}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {5e5c4c64-77d2-4908-8cad-4d5e0023d090}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {24dbfffd-e441-4687-a23b-0ffec8ce5fc1}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {2194faa8-a434-49b9-bcfe-5f03687f0334}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
does "Waiting for completion" state of writers effect the backups ?
Except reboot, what can be done to fix it.
