I have tried searching for answers to my specific issue but could not find any resolution so posting a question.
I see a Inconsistent shadow copy in VSS for System Writer when doing vssadmin list writers.
When taking a scheduled server backup (Windows Server 2012 R2), I see the following in Event logs (one for VSS and one for SPP source).
It was working fine all these years until I started mucking around with deleting backups. Here's what I think triggered these errors. I noticed that my backup folder was growing in size (more than twice the volume that I am backing up) and I saw that I had lots of old backups (25+), so I used wssadmin delete backup command to start deleting specific versions and when I got tired of doing it one by one, I did a wssadmin delete backup -keepVersions:5 or some number. After these steps, subsequent backups I started noticing these errors and now I cannot take a backup without these errors/warnings.
I tried searching for these errors but I could not get to solving my issue. I am not clear on why I have an inconsistent shadow copy or which volume/filename/directory name or volume label is being referred to in the event log errors.
Can someone please help me get rid of this error? Now I am worried that my backups are not going to be good anymore.
Thanks for your help.
| GetVolumePathName is fail on the path , winerror 0x0000007b. |
| 0x8007007b, The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. |
| Operation: PrepareForSnapshot Event Context: Execution Context: Writer Writer Class Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} Writer Name: System Writer Writer Instance ID: {79850a1a-024f-442e-a9c0-007d7c7031c7} |
| System Writer |
| The shadow-copy set only contains only a subset of the volumes needed to correctly backup the selected components of the writer. (0x800423F0) |
| 01000000B8120000991200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000 |