Dear People i have a problem with a backup program veeam backup and replication v9
we needed like 2 months ago to build a new file server. so we did this.
we created a new machine in Hyper-v and added the disks and serve to the failovercluster.
Then we added it to a backup job in Veeam.
from the first try it didnt backupped the server Fs02.
It keeps saying abbout vss
one of the first messages in eventviewer: event id: 12289, source: VSS, Logname : Application
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error while calling GetStorageDependencyInformation. hr = 0x8007048f, The device is not connected..
Operation: Automatically choosing a diff-area volume Processing EndPrepareSnapshots
Context: Execution Context: System Provider
Error-specific details: Error: (0x8007048f) The device is not connected.
the second one in eventviewer: event id: 8, source: volsnap, logname: system (this one is listed 2 times in eventviewer)
The flush and hold writes operation on volume timed out while waiting for a release writes command.
the third one in eventviewer: event id: 190, source: veeam mp, logname: veeambackup
view other informations in eventviewer: event id: 150, level is information
VM IMG-FS02 task has finished with 'InProgress' state.Task details: Failed to create snapshot (Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0;Microsoft CSV Shadow Copy Provider) (mode: Crash consistent) Details: Unknown status of async operationThe shadow copy provider timed out while flushing data to the volume being shadow copied. This is probably due to excessive activity on the volume. Try again later when the volume is not being used so heavily.--tr:Failed to create VSS snapshot.--tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.Retrying snapshot creation attempt (Unknown status of async operationThe shadow copy provider timed out while flushing data to the volume being shadow copied. This is probably due to excessive activity on the volume. Try again later when the volume is not being used so heavily.--tr:Failed to create VSS snapshot.--tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.)Task has been rescheduled
So first i got support from veeam but they couldn’t help because it is a windows server 2012 problem.
i was looking to the vss admin writers, 3 where in a failed state:
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {6c7aba0f-bd49-4e6b-a14a-a28df0521fdc}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {0cb99971-cfca-4f71-886a-ac5736de346a}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {cb5511a9-7ad6-4a3c-878f-356d5b0b7bfc}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
i searched for the services of thos admin writers and restarted them. After that I rebooted the server. But still I got no success.
When I try to run a backupjob of the server in veeam this is the static log:
I don’t know if this is necessary,
but for the info I put this picture with it PLEASE HELP
