Hi All,
Am facing strange issue on windows 2008 Sp2 server, its a virtual machine running on vmware platform.
When i give command "vssadmin list writers" - all the writers are visible and when i run try to take the system state backup using wbadmin the error comes up stating system writer not found but the system writer is visible
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
U:\>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {a1904473-1aea-4be2-88f2-4757e14824f5}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {b7f69be5-f3da-4f3f-82e4-8f555902ca72}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {02a0bd41-e2b6-4c9b-a32a-a7a6ab3b2ba9}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {1ca7ca3d-a2cc-4613-99ea-b34307b39f28}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {12a9d0c8-e3ed-4e44-93e6-d031dd9b0510}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {d8542eeb-70aa-446c-8d13-7fa7cb0e69dd}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {f31c91c9-d76b-4358-b042-beaf8d566e00}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {4633a1d5-a715-4bad-8c0a-a94d28b71d55}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {ee265085-8de7-4ab3-ab2d-41e7bd0b877c}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
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U:\>wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:e:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
Starting System State Backup [5/21/2012 8:21 PM]
Retrieving volume information...
This would backup the system state from volume(s) System(C:),Data(E:) to e:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y
Creating the shadow copy of volumes requested for backup.
Summary of backup:
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Backup of system state failed [5/21/2012 8:22 PM]
Log of files successfully backed up
'C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\SystemStateBackup 21-05-2012 20-22-43.log'
Log of files for which backup failed
'C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\SystemStateBackup_Error 21-05-2012 20-22-43
.log'
System writer is not found in the backup.
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No errors in application or system event log
tried procmon to see if any permission issues, no clue found in procmon
Server is having symantec backup exec , SQL and IIS installed.
Tried the below article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009272, however this doesnt work.
Enabled vss tracing and found below messages in trace log
Error while obtaining an interface interface 0x80004002
HRESULT EXCEPTION CAUGHT: hr: 0x80042308