{"id":2861,"date":"2017-10-06T04:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T04:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2017-10-06T04:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T04:53:59","slug":"veeam-backup-failed-vss_ws_failed_at_prepare_snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/fixes\/veeam-backup-failed-vss_ws_failed_at_prepare_snapshot","title":{"rendered":"Veeam Backup Failed : VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0Error: Unfreeze error: [Backup job failed.<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer&#8217;s data.<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: [SqlServerWriter]. Class ID: [{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}]. Instance ID: [{60e3e5dd-73fc-46d6-ab6b-6b8723df09e3}]. Writer&#8217;s state: [VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT]. Error code: [0x800423f4].]<\/strong><\/em><\/p><p>I restarted the\u00a0<em>SQL<\/em>\u00a0Server\u00a0<em>VSS Writer ( Can be done during production as only used for backups ) and a retry still errored.<\/em><\/p><p>In the end I needed to reboot the server<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Error: Unfreeze error: [Backup job failed.Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer&#8217;s data.A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: [SqlServerWriter]. Class ID: [{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}]. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2138,2137,739,2136],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","tag-a-vss-critical-writer-has-failed","tag-cannot-create-a-shadow-copy-of-the-volumes-containing-writers-data","tag-veeam","tag-vss_ws_failed_at_prepare_snapshot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}