The SBS 2011 (Exchange is at SP1) Windows 2008 R2 suddenly stopped making backups with error > Backup unsuccessful. A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Unknown > error (0x800423f4). When manually starting the backup from SBS console, the backup will fail after 52 seconds. HARDWARE SETUP The source of [...] read more
Host Machine: * Intel Core i3 3120M @ 2,50Ghz 2,50Ghz * 12GB RAM * Windows 10 Enterprise 64Bit * 750GB HD * 250GB SSD Virtual Machine: * Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise * 4 virtual processors * 8GB RAM I'm having some problems to create checkpoints on my VM. When [...] read more
We have a Windows Server 2003 R2 running Service Pack 2. It is a domain controller (Global Catalog) and our main internal DNS server. We run a System State backup of the machine to back up Active Directory information and save the backup to a different server. This server has [...] read more
After about 15 minutes, a Norton Ghost 14 backup fails with Error EBAB03F1: The specified network name is no longer available. The source computer is a P4 laptop running Windows XP SP3. The target computer is a Core2 Quad desktop running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. It does not help to [...] read more
Errors: Windows event Log - Backup started at '5/5/2011 12:34:07 AM' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup volumes with following error code '2155348129'. Please rerun backup once issue is resolved. The description for Event ID 24583 from source SQLWRITER cannot be found. Either the component that raises [...] read more
I have a peculiar problem on a Windows 10 Enterprise N machine. A VM that starts without a problem on two Windows 10 Pro laptops wont start. The first error I get is this: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/kOPeK.png] Looking at the thread Cannot create checkpoint on Hyper-V (0x800423F4) I [...] read more
I hope you can help, sometimes a backup task will fail, usually a transient VSS error, and re-running the backup will normally complete successfully. What I am trying to do is use the event filter within Task Schdeuler to trigger the backup to restart. I've had no problem doing this [...] read more
I have a VM, which was originally running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role. The guest was a Server 2012 which was just serving as a domain controller (a backup one to the SBS 2011 server running on another physical machine). I moved the VM by shutting [...] read more
The error message says, > A shadow copy could not be created. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application > event logs for more information. > > Details: the writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process > is retried, the error is likely to reoccur. I have written a [...] read more
So this is a two part problem. I was following directions trying to install some software and I misunderstood a poorly written segment of the installation instructions. This led to me deleting my System Path rather than adding onto the end of it. In an attempt to get it back [...] read more