{"id":5463,"date":"2021-12-18T23:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T23:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2021-12-18T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T23:07:39","slug":"failed-to-prepare-guest-for-hot-backup-error-vsscontrol-2147212529-backup-job-failed-discovery-phase-failed-cannot-add-volumes-to-the-snapshot-set-cannot-add-a-volume-to-the-snapshot-set-volum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/failed-to-prepare-guest-for-hot-backup-error-vsscontrol-2147212529-backup-job-failed-discovery-phase-failed-cannot-add-volumes-to-the-snapshot-set-cannot-add-a-volume-to-the-snapshot-set-volum","title":{"rendered":"Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: -2147212529 Backup job failed. Discovery phase failed. Cannot add volumes to the snapshot set. Cannot add a volume to the snapshot set. Volume name: [\\\\?\\Volume{70835baf-895e-480d-aea3-8ecd4db01046}\\]. Cannot add volume to the set of volumes that should be shadowed. VSS error: VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR. Code:0x8004230f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently converted a Hyper V Vm to vmware\u00a0<\/p><p>Trying to use Veeam to back it up , and displayed the following error<\/p><p>18\/12\/2021 4:53:15 PM :: Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: -2147212529 Backup job failed. Discovery phase failed. Cannot add volumes to the snapshot set. Cannot add a volume to the snapshot set. Volume name: [\\\\?\\Volume{70835baf-895e-480d-aea3-8ecd4db01046}\\]. Cannot add volume to the set of volumes that should be shadowed. VSS error: VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR. Code:0x8004230f<\/p><p>Per<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veeam.com\/kb1785\"> Veeam article<\/a> this is due to VSS write issue\u00a0<\/p><p>I saw an old Hyper V VSS Writer : Hyper-V IC Software Shadow Copy Provider<\/p><p>Unforunelty this is integrated into the OS\u00a0<\/p><p>So had to manually remove from Registry<\/p><p>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\VSS\\Providers\\{74600e39-7dc5-4567-a03b-f091d6c7b092}]\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently converted a Hyper V Vm to vmware\u00a0Trying to use Veeam to back it up , and displayed the following error18\/12\/2021 4:53:15 PM :: Failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2450,3683,1164,1342,3684],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v-ic-software-shadow-copy-provider","tag-remove","tag-vss","tag-vss-error-vss_e_unexpected_provider_error-code0x8004230f"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}