{"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":"

\u00a0Error: Unfreeze error: [Backup job failed.<\/strong><\/em>
Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer’s data.<\/strong><\/em>
A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: [SqlServerWriter]. Class ID: [{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}]. Instance ID: [{60e3e5dd-73fc-46d6-ab6b-6b8723df09e3}]. Writer’s state: [VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT]. Error code: [0x800423f4].]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

I restarted the\u00a0SQL<\/em>\u00a0Server\u00a0VSS Writer ( Can be done during production as only used for backups ) and a retry still errored.<\/em><\/p>

In the end I needed to reboot the server<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Error: Unfreeze error: [Backup job failed.Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer’s data.A VSS critical writer has failed. Writer name: [SqlServerWriter]. Class ID: [{a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}]. […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t