VSS problems still continuoes...

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I am experiencing for few months problem with VSS writers. Few days

ago I reregistered DLLs related to VSS, see following link for detalis

(http://blogs.technet.com/sdoakes/archive/2006/02/03/418722.aspx) and

applied KB940349. After that ntbackup of system state finally worked.

VSS writers worked perfectly, no error shown.

 

Yesterday I found that Scheduled task of system state backup made by

ntbackup was sitting for hours making no progress.

 

Looking in event viewer I found error:

 

Event Type: Error

Event Source: VSS

Event Category: None

Event ID: 7001

Date: 14.1.2008

Time: 9:07:44

User: N/A

Computer: PDC

Description:

VssAdmin: Unable to create a shadow copy: Another shadow copy creation

is already in progress. Please wait a few moments and try again.

Command-line: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\vssadmin.exe Create Shadow /

AutoRetry=5 /For=\\?\Volume{ad8f5be0-29a0-11d9-b16f-806e6f6e6963}\'.

 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 2d 20 43 6f 64 65 3a 20 - Code:

0008: 41 44 4d 56 41 44 4d 43 ADMVADMC

0010: 30 30 30 30 30 38 32 38 00000828

0018: 2d 20 43 61 6c 6c 3a 20 - Call:

0020: 41 44 4d 56 41 44 4d 43 ADMVADMC

0028: 30 30 30 30 30 37 36 38 00000768

0030: 2d 20 50 49 44 3a 20 20 - PID:

0038: 30 30 30 30 34 38 34 30 00004840

0040: 2d 20 54 49 44 3a 20 20 - TID:

0048: 30 30 30 30 31 34 34 38 00001448

0050: 2d 20 43 4d 44 3a 20 20 - CMD:

0058: 43 3a 5c 57 49 4e 44 4f C:\WINDO

0060: 57 53 5c 73 79 73 74 65 WS\syste

0068: 6d 33 32 5c 76 73 73 61 m32\vssa

0070: 64 6d 69 6e 2e 65 78 65 dmin.exe

0078: 20 43 72 65 61 74 65 20 Create

0080: 53 68 61 64 6f 77 20 2f Shadow /

0088: 41 75 74 6f 52 65 74 72 AutoRetr

0090: 79 3d 35 20 2f 46 6f 72 y=5 /For

0098: 3d 5c 5c 3f 5c 56 6f 6c =\\?\Vol

00a0: 75 6d 65 7b 61 64 38 66 ume{ad8f

00a8: 35 62 65 30 2d 32 39 61 5be0-29a

00b0: 30 2d 31 31 64 39 2d 62 0-11d9-b

00b8: 31 36 66 2d 38 30 36 65 16f-806e

00c0: 36 66 36 65 36 39 36 33 6f6e6963

00c8: 7d 5c 20 20 20 20 20 20 }\

00d0: 2d 20 55 73 65 72 3a 20 - User:

00d8: 4e 54 20 41 55 54 48 4f NT AUTHO

00e0: 52 49 54 59 5c 53 59 53 RITY\SYS

00e8: 54 45 4d 20 20 20 20 20 TEM

00f0: 2d 20 53 69 64 3a 20 20 - Sid:

00f8: 53 2d 31 2d 35 2d 31 38 S-1-5-18

 

After server restart, all worked OK. Backup worked OK, I was able to

list VSS writers, but after one day again apperas same problem. Anyone

dealed with this one? No help is availabe from Microsoft about this

issue.

Only thing I can do right now is to schedule daily server restart

which is no proper solution to this problem.

 

System is PDC, running W2k3 standard SP1.