I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM fully updated that takes much longer to complete backups than it used to.
For example if the backup starts at 5am the backup status details(in the GUI) say it didn’t really start until 5:20am and finished at 6:21am to backup ~325MB to another backup server. In comparisons another VM setup almost identically running on the same
server takes under 10 mins to do the same backup.
If I run vssadmin list writers it hangs for over 10 mins then finally returns me a list of writers with all stable and no errors.
If I make changes to the backup schedule using the GUI wizard it takes again another 20mins to “Modifying existing schedule”
I have tried the following.
1.Uninstalling the windows backup feature and reinstalling.
2.Doing all Windows updates
3.Restarting the server multiple times.
4.Tried starting in safe mode, but windows backup doesn’t run in safemode.
5.The server has no other 3rd party software on it(AV or backup for example)
I saw in another thread about registering DLLs or VSS writers but it didn’t come to that and I don’t know how.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Thanks
Chris