07-07-2015 06:58 AM
Symantic System Recovery 2013 R2 has suddenly stopped working on Small Business Server 2008
I have been using the Symantic System Recovery 2013 R2 for several months on our SBS 2008 and have not had any problems.
Suddenly, last week it stopped creating backups. There were no Microsoft updates installed prior to the program failing and no other configuration items on the server have been changed.
I am seeing the following error in the event log:
Error EC8F17B7: Cannot create recovery points for job: Drive Backup of (C:\), DATA (D:\), EXCHANGE (F:\).
Error E4F3000F: Unexpected VSS writer error. Check the application event log for writer specific error. Failed VSS writers: BITS Writer. (UMI:V-281-3215-6071)
Details:
Source: Symantec System Recovery
The program is working fine on my other server which runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.
Can you please advise me as to how I can resolve this issue?
07-07-2015 09:28 PM
Have you tried restarting the VSS Service?
07-12-2015 08:31 PM
Try seperate backup of drives and check whether issue persist to a single drive.
Also check whether the writers are stable before and after the backup
Run the command : vssadmin list writers
If any writer is in a failed state reboot the machine.
If the writers is stable for a while and fails again contact microsoft to fix the writer
You can also run Windows backup to test VSS
09-02-2015 10:03 PM
Any updates here?
09-20-2015 11:40 PM
HI
Having the same issue with an SBS 2011 Server. Any solution for this?
10-08-2015 04:10 AM
Restarted server and issue was resolved.
10-08-2015 04:16 AM
Please mark this post as solved then.
10-08-2015 04:30 AM
how?
10-08-2015 05:35 AM
There is a "mark as solution" link in the left lower corner of each post.