An error was detected in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). The problem occurred while trying to contact VSS writers.
Verify that the Event System service and the VSS service are running and check for associated errors in the event logs.
I'd like to create a volume shadow copy (vshadow 2.2) from within Cygwin over ssh: $ ./vshadow.exe -p -nw C: (...) - Setting the VSS context to: 0x00000019 Creating shadow set {a5e0883e-9485-4243-8276-1ac7c569ab6a} ... - Adding volume \\?\Volume{218a908d-1e3f-11df-a215-806e6f6e6963}\ [C:\] to the shadow set... Creating the shadow (DoSnapshotSet) ... ERROR: COM call [...] read more