Often, there's not enough disk space to create another snap. I find that if you go into the Shadow Copy configuration and force the release of existing snapshots, that fixes problems. Your bat file should do that. Sometimes, for many reasons, VSS gets confused or corrupted (pick your favorite vague term), and the only thing that helps is to stop the VSS server and restart it. So, you could add a line to your bat file to stop and start the service.
-----Original Message----- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 3:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Volume Shadow Copy Hi :-) We have a windows 2003 server, that is fully upto date with service packs and patches Every night the server runs an scheduled NTbackup This has recently started to fail giving errors about unable to create volume shadow copy The machine runs 4 Virtual machines running the Free Vmserver we successfully backed up the machine with ntbackup and have restored the running machines to another server, I did have some success creating a batch file before the backup With the following line vssadmin delete shadows /ALL this worked for a few weeks and is now failing again The machine has gone through a full disk check without problems (as I thought this may be the issue) Any help would be welcome Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:[email protected] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
