Server Backup reports incomplete backup [0x80070020] due to item in System Volume Information Folder

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My Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials server has started throwing the same error each time during daily backups, each backup has this error in the failed items backup log:

Error in backup of E:\System Volume Information\SRM\quota.md during write: Error [0x80070020] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

E: is a parity Storage Space. Each backup status is now incomplete but otherwise all other data appears to have been backed up. It does mean however that each backup task now runs a full backup on E: rather than incremental because of the "failure" status.

I tried using the Dashboard to exclude this path from backup however I just got a different error related to items under the System Volume Information folder. There seems to be a underlying issue as to why System Volume Information is now causing problems, but I'm not sure what it is. As far as I'm aware I am not using any Quota functionality unless Windows itself is doing something I'm not aware of.

Additionally the core configuration of the server has not changed, so I am slightly confused as to why the backup is now "failing".

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asked on Server Fault Dec 7, 2015 by James White

1 Answer

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While this doesn't explain why 0x80070020 error occurs. The problem appears to be when wbadmin.exe is provided an exclude flag. Running whole backup of the E:/ storage space completed successfully.

A similar problem was reported related to WSUS:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a9ec7dc7-2f87-4a1e-bebe-e1717b4b1565/cannot-backup-dsystem-volume-informationsrmquotamd?forum=winservergen

Ultimately for whatever reason Windows doesn't like the exclude option in the backup now. It had worked fine up until a few weeks ago and the only thing that would of changed would of been the amount of data being excluded overtime.

I suspect this is a bug in Windows.

answered on Server Fault Dec 13, 2015 by James White • edited Dec 14, 2015 by James White

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