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Stians (Partner)

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Monday, September 13, 2010 12:25 PM

How do I get 'System Writer' and 'WMI Writer' out of "State: [5] Waiting for completion"?

Sign In to C:\Users\username>vssadmin list writers Vote

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool (C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp. Waiting for responses. These may be delayed if a shadow copy is being prepared. Writer name: 'System Writer' Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} Writer Instance Id: {c9762bc0-1a4e-441d-9287-1bf398649219} State: [5] Waiting for completion Last error: No error Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter' Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a} Writer Instance Id: {2fe91d80-b228-435f-9fa4-c583866db232} State: [1] Stable Last error: No error Writer name: 'ASR Writer' Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4} Writer Instance Id: {9635656d-b908-4e41-bea1-a454e19e5f6b} State: [1] Stable Last error: No error Writer name: 'BITS Writer' Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0} Writer Instance Id: {3a810b02-25ae-4f81-a375-bfe20a1205a7} State: [1] Stable Last error: No error Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f} Writer Instance Id: {dce1819f-65ff-4106-bbcf-71ebc75fc635} State: [1] Stable Last error: No error Writer name: 'WMI Writer' Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0} Writer Instance Id: {a9b527c7-375a-44b3-bc40-48e4d3d38150} State: [5] Waiting for completion Last error: No error Writer name: 'Registry Writer' Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485} Writer Instance Id: {3fad1a53-2860-44bd-9f4c-4acf7b3a7aab} State: [1] Stable Last error: No error Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer' Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f} Writer Instance Id: {c826425d-c7a0-4c1d-9a03-68973ed78f43} State: [1] Stable Last error: No error

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Mervyn Zhang 8,870

Friday, September 17, 2010 5:41 AM

Hi,

Thank you for update. I suggest we try the steps below to narrow down the cause:

Sign In to 1.Open elevated CMD, run "net stop vss && net start vss", press Enter. If there is prompt that VSS Vote

service is not started, try "net start vss && net stop vss" press Enter. Run " vssadmin list writers" again, does the same issue occur? 2.Try to backup VM using Windows Server backup, is there any error message? If so, please let us know the detailed error message? 3.Restart this server and check if there is any difference. 4.If the same problem occurs, please help to collect MPS report: 1)Download proper MPS Report tool from the website below.

Microsoft Product Support Reports http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CEBF3C7C-7CA5-408F-88B7F9C79B7306C0&displaylang=en 2)Double-click to run it, if requirement is not met, please follow the wizard to download and install them. After that, click Next, when the "Select the diagnostics you want to run" page appears, select "General", "Server Components", click Next. After collecting all log files, choose "Save the results", choose a folder to save <Computername>MPSReports.cab file. upload the file to Windows Live SkyDrive (http://www.skydrive.live.com/). If you would like other community member to analyze the report, you can paste the link here, if not, you can send the link to tfwst@microsoft.com (with this thread title or link in the email. Please dont share documents with this address). Thanks. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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Edoardo Benussi (MVP) 17,885

Monday, September 13, 2010 12:41 PM

Hi,

take a look at this thread

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completion.aspx HTH

Edoardo Benussi - Microsoft MVP Management Infrastructure - Systems Administration https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/Profile/Benussi Windows Server Italian Forum Moderator edo[at]mvps[dot]org

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Stians (Partner)

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Monday, September 13, 2010 12:49 PM

Forgot to say that I'm running Windows Server 2008

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Mervyn Zhang

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:52 AM

To better understand your problem, please help to collect the following information for research. 1.When did the issue start to occur?

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3.Is there any other problem related to VSS? 4.Could you perform a backup without error now? 5.Please try to disable all third party software, including antivirus software and Firewall to test, does the same error still occur? Thanks.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:50 AM

1. I noticed it when I started doing snapshot backup of the vm with DPM 2010 2. No 3. I'm getting error regarding VSS when I try to do a snapshotbackup. Beside this I'm not aware of any Sign In to other problems 4. No Vote 5. There is not installed any 3rd party software on the server. I have 40 other servers that being backed up perfectly

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Mervyn Zhang

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Friday, September 17, 2010 5:41 AM

Hi,

Thank you for update. I suggest we try the steps below to narrow down the cause:

Sign In to 1.Open elevated CMD, run "net stop vss && net start vss", press Enter. If there is prompt that VSS Vote

service is not started, try "net start vss && net stop vss" press Enter. Run " vssadmin list writers" again, does the same issue occur? 2.Try to backup VM using Windows Server backup, is there any error message? If so, please let us know the detailed error message? 3.Restart this server and check if there is any difference. 4.If the same problem occurs, please help to collect MPS report: 1)Download proper MPS Report tool from the website below. Microsoft Product Support Reports http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CEBF3C7C-7CA5-408F-88B7F9C79B7306C0&displaylang=en 2)Double-click to run it, if requirement is not met, please follow the wizard to download and install them. After that, click Next, when the "Select the diagnostics you want to run" page appears, select "General", "Server Components", click Next. After collecting all log files, choose "Save the results", choose a folder to save <Computername>MPSReports.cab file. upload the file to Windows Live SkyDrive (http://www.skydrive.live.com/). If you would like other community member to analyze the report, you can paste the link here, if not, you can send the link to tfwst@microsoft.com (with this thread title or link in the email. Please dont share documents with this address). Thanks.

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Mervyn Zhang

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 3:09 AM

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Have you tried the suggestions? Any update is welcomed. If there is any problem, please let us know the detailed error message. Thanks. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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Stians (Partner)

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:12 AM

Hi,

Thank your for your response. :)

Sign In to I haven't been able to test it yet. I will post when I have done so. Vote

"So much to do, so little time..." :o)

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Mervyn Zhang

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Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:07 AM

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Thank you for update. Waiting for your test result. If there is anything we can do for you, please let us know. Thanks. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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Stians (Partner)

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Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:55 AM

It seems like it have corrected it self or after following your advise... I logged in to continue testing, and suddenly it seems like it was OK. I'm looking forward to the next backup windows for this server to see if this solved my problem. Thx!

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James Purdon

Monday, January 09, 2012 2:33 PM

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Sign In to The VSS 'System Writer' appears to be set by the "Cryptographic Services" service. Restarting this service Vote

will reset the writer.

The VSS 'WMI Writer' appears to be set by the "Windows Management Instrumentation" service. Restarting this service will reset the writer. I do not understand why Microsoft cannot create a simple table listing the VSS writer and the related services. It would make issues like this so much easier to resolve. Best regards, James

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