WHS 2011 Backup VSS 8194 Issue

• Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:48 PM

   

   
  

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  I am having this issue as well with a newly installed WHS 2011 server and my Windows 7 Enterprise machine.

  I only want to backup my C: to start with which is a 120GB SSD.

  I get the same error and only get:

  C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list providers
  vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
  (C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
  
  Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
     Provider type: System
     Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
     Version: 1.0.0.7

  My event log says:

  Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface.  hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied.
  . This is often caused by incorrect security settings in either the writer or requestor process. 
  
  Operation:
     Gathering Writer Data
  
  Context:
     Writer Class Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
     Writer Name: System Writer
     Writer Instance ID: {4b76855f-fc55-477d-bd90-30882b4a96e5}

  And then it times out and repeats the same error until it fails.

  Also, here is a link to my error:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc734235(v=ws.10).aspx

  It says to use the command: vssadmin list writers and determine which has the error. However that command reports NO errors. In that case the technet article says:

  "If the command reports that all writers are operating without errors, this means that the error condition is not writer-related. In this case, you should contact the backup software vendor that created the VSS requester application."

  :D

  That would be Microsoft I believe lol.

  Other programs of note on my computer which may be storage related:

  =Microsoft Security Essentials (no other antivirus ever installed)

  =SkyDrive App

  =Google Drive App  / Google Music Sync

  =Virtual Clone Drive

  Also, not sure if its relevant but I have 7 hard drives currently attached, two of them USB.

  I can go through detaching all my drives one by one and uninstalling all of those apps... before that, was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Again, I only want to backup C for now.

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