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Why is copying to a local UNC path so slow on my Windows 2008 R2 server?

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I have a Windows 2008 R2 server named Server that runs a backup each night to an encrypted USB drive attached to the server. I shared the drive on the server as shown below and configured Windows Server Backup to backup to the local shared folder.

  • \\Server\Backup

Everything worked well for several months with the backup speeds being about 1 GB/min (15 to 20 MB/s). At the beginning of this week, I noticed that the backup speeds reduced to 1 to 2 MB/s which resulted in the backup not completing before the encrypted disk was automatically dismounted.

After much research and testing, I believe that I have narrowed down the cause of the issue to an issue writing data to the local UNC path of \\Server\Backup as shown by comparing the following tests.

Test 1

  • c:> copy largefile h:\

The above DOS command copies the file to the encrypted drive mounted at h:\ quickly.

Test 2

  • c:> copy largefile \\Server\Backup

The above DOS command copies the data to the same location but was 33x slower that the Test 1 DOS command.

I duplicated the above results using the xcopy command instead of the copy command but could not duplicate the above results on my Windows 7 computer. On my Windows 7 computer, the two versions of the copy performed the same.

The following are some additional observations:

  • If I change the backup location to an external UNC like \\Sever2\Backup, everything works well.
  • After repeatedly running Windows Server Backup after make changes such as restarting the server and tweaking the NIC parameters, the backup will all of a sudden start backing up at the normal speed but this will only last for about an hour before it reduces back to the slow backup speed.

VM not backed up

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Good morning,

I have a host on Hyper-V on Windows 2016 STD with different vm with Windows 2016 STD. Of one of these (all of generation 2), it is neither possible to backup with Windows Server Backup with the machine turned on nor to create snapshots from the Hyper-V console.

The virtual machine in question contains an SQL database that I can not reinstall as it is in production.
The virtual machine has been completely restored from a backup.

I have done several tests:

1- backup with WBS from inside the machine and it works

2- backup from the host: it does not work only on that VM.

3- snapshot: the percentage reaches 9% and then fails to continue and merge and retry the error "Checkpoint operation failed. 'Name-server' could not initiate at checkpoint operation.

4- logs report as below.

Thanks for the answers


Log Name:      Application
Source:        SPP
Date:          11/8/2018 4:10:54 PM
Event ID:      16387
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      HOST-01
Description:
Writer Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer experienced some error during snapshot creation.  More info: .
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="SPP" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">16387</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-11-08T15:10:54.244744100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>14044</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>HOST-01</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer</Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>The writer experienced a partial failure. Check the component level error state for more information. (0x80042336)</Data>
    <Data>Unspecified error (0x80004005)</Data>
    <Binary>01000000B8120000991200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>
---------------------------------------------------------------
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2
Date:          11/8/2018 4:11:14 PM
Event ID:      513
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      HOST-01
Description:
Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object.

Details:
AddLegacyDriverFiles: Unable to back up image of binary Microsoft Link-Layer Discovery Protocol.

System Error:
Access is denied.
.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2" Guid="{5bbca4a8-b209-48dc-a8c7-b23d3e5216fb}" EventSourceName="Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">513</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-11-08T15:11:14.750629800Z" />
    <EventRecordID>14045</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="196" ThreadID="12328" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>HOST-01</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>

Details:
AddLegacyDriverFiles: Unable to back up image of binary Microsoft Link-Layer Discovery Protocol.

System Error:
Access is denied.
</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

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Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker
Date:          11/9/2018 1:39:46 PM
Event ID:      3280
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\7678E467-1F7C-4A09-917B-0185D26A2013
Computer:      HOST-01
Description:
The description for Event ID 3280 from source Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

E-SERVER
7678E467-1F7C-4A09-917B-0185D26A2013
%%2147754992
0x800423F0

The locale specific resource for the desired message is not present

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker" Guid="{51DDFA29-D5C8-4803-BE4B-2ECB715570FE}" />
    <EventID>3280</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-11-09T12:39:46.102010600Z" />
    <EventRecordID>53283036</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="12304" ThreadID="15276" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin</Channel>
    <Computer>Saman-01</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-83-1-1987634279-1242111868-2231466897-320891602" />
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <VmlEventLog xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events">
      <VmName>E-SERVER</VmName>
      <VmId>7678E467-1F7C-4A09-917B-0185D26A2013</VmId>
      <ErrorCode>%%2147754992</ErrorCode>
      <HResult>0x800423F0</HResult>
    </VmlEventLog>
  </UserData>
</Event>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS
Date:          11/9/2018 1:39:46 PM
Event ID:      18012
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      HOST-01
Description:
Checkpoint operation for 'E-SERVER' failed. (Virtual machine ID 7678E467-1F7C-4A09-917B-0185D26A2013)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS" Guid="{6066F867-7CA1-4418-85FD-36E3F9C0600C}" />
    <EventID>18012</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-11-09T12:39:46.106329100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>4278</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="3188" ThreadID="12788" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin</Channel>
    <Computer>Saman-01</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <VmlEventLog xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events">
      <VmName>E-SERVER</VmName>
      <VmId>7678E467-1F7C-4A09-917B-0185D26A2013</VmId>
    </VmlEventLog>
  </UserData>
</Event>

Windows Server Backup of a SharePoint 2019 Hyper-V VM

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Hello,

I have a test server which is exhibiting some strange behavior with Windows Server Backup.  Perhaps I am just performing the backup incorrectly and need to use another method.  It is a Hyper-V server running Windows Server 2012 R2 with guest VM's running a domain controller (2012 R2), Exchange 2013, SQL Server 2017, and SharePoint 2019.  I created a backup job on the Hyper-V server that backs up the necessary system volumes/partitions, and also includes the VM's within Hyper-V.  When checking the progress after the backup is complete the data transferred shows "xx.xx of xx.xx" as expected for everything except for the SharePoint VM.  That one shows 374.00MB of 32.99GB.  The total data transferred shows 99.10GB.  When I add up all of the VM's -except- for SharePoint it adds up to 98.73GB, including SharePoint adds up to 99.10GB.  While it was backing up SharePoint it counted up past 374MB, but from what the results show at the end it appears the SharePoint VM has not been backed up properly.

Should the backup be performed in some other way?  Perhaps running Windows Server Backup directly from the guest OS instead of from the host Hyper-V OS?

On a related note, I am curious if there would be any issue with inconsistencies of the state of the data performing the backup in this manner?  The SQL Server is also running as a VM.  Is it critical for the backup of the SQL Server and SharePoint server be done at the same time so there is no mis-match of configuration or other data between the VM's?

Windows Server 2012 Backup Not Doing Incremental

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I'm running Windows Server 2012, with my "C" drive on a small, 60 GB  SSD and a large, 3 TB drive as my "D" drive, with two VMs on "D" (only one VM runs, the other's turned off all the time).  In the past I've had no problem using Windows Server Backup to do an initial Full backup of all drives, with scheduled daily incremental backups, to another 3 TB HDD.  However, recently I formatted the backup 3 TB drive and started over (dumb thing to do).  After the initial, full backup (System Reserved, Bare Metal Recovery, C, D, Hyper-V, Virtual Machines), all subsequent backups do System Reserved and Local C as incremental, but the large "D" drive, 3 TB HDD (with about 2 TB of data on it) is always done as Full, and it takes six hours.  It used to do "D" as incremental and would take a few minutes, depending on how much data changed that day.

I have tried configuring Performance Settings to Fast, which is supposed to backup changes only, yet each night a full backup of "D" is made.  I've also tried configuring Performance Settings as Custom, and forcing each drive to be Incremental in the drop-down box next to each drive, but it makes no difference:  "D" is always a full backup.  The time taken isn't the biggest problem -- the biggest problem is that I have no backup history.  A file deleted yesterday is gone for good without incremental backups.

Does anyone have any idea why Windows Server Backup will not backup my 3 TB "D" drive (with 2 TB of data) incrementally?  I used to be able to hold over a dozen backup copies before, now all I get is yesterday's data.


Mike B.

Backup Strategies for Client Backups Stored on Server Disk and ReFS Drives

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Hi all,

I have a server running server 2012 r2 with the essentials role installed. There are several clients attached to the domain which are configure to regularly backup to the essentials server (on a 5TB ReFS volume) and the server also hosts redirected folders for the clients along with a fairly large (for a home anyway) collection of music and photos etc all stored on ReFS formatted volumes.

I have purchased a couple of 5TB external drives which I intend to use as additional backup drives which I will rotate so that there is always one in a location away from the house.

The issue I have is with configuring backups onto the external drives. As I see it I have two issues - ReFS drives do not allow incremental backups and I cannot configure a subset of client backups to be backed up onto the external drives. This means that the external drives will run out of space after a very small set of backups which limits their usefulness.

Any suggestions on how to best configure this sort of backup?

backup windows server 2008 failed

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i`he try to make a Active Directory backup in windows server 2008,i tried Windows Server Backup,it`s failed ,then,i tried in cmd,it is also failure .I open the Event Viewer,there is two error:

Volume copy service error: Accidental error when calling ConvertStringSidToSid (S-1-5-21-622734562-586580535-1533348042-500.bak). HR = 0x80070539, the security ID structure is invalid.

Event ID :8193

And a information :Block-level backup engine service has stopped.

Event ID :754

What should i do?

I sincerely invite you to help me solve this problem.

Updates Windows without Internet

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Hi,

My mother has a system of Windows 10. She wanted to update the system without internet. Is it possible? Suggestions are welcomed.

Microsoft Edge INET_E_RESOURCES_NOT_FOUND

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This error message isn't that uncommon but what makes this issue unique is that Edge will say its a DNS issue, however google chrome, IE, firefox all works. Also if I switch to WIFI or MobileLTE Edge will work. And here is another kicker, it only happens in the morning after it has been either on a business trip and at home and when i get into the office this error message will last about 10-15 minutes before it starts working again.

I've tried ipconfig /flushdns

i've tried going to edge and about:flags; CTL+Shift+D; disable "Enable TCP Fast Open"

Any ideas?


Server backup cannot restore

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I have the second server now that cannot restore from backup; not even a single file.  Microsoft broke the ServerBackup system.  I wonder why!

Не работает система архивации данных

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У меня winows server 2008, еще вчера я делал бекапы, а сегодня у меня эта служба не работает. Ошибка
Закройте модуль Wbadmin.msc и запустите его повторно. Поставил NLB (у вас решали данную проблему таким образом) ничего не изменилось. Удалял данный компонент, ставил его заного, так же без результата. Помогите пожалуйста 

How to fix Event Log is inaccessiable. Only messages for currently running operations will be displayed.

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Running Windows Backup on a Windows Server 2012 to a Network share

I think the backup is completing & is listed in ALL Backups but I see the message

"Event Log is inaccessible. Only messages for currently running operations will be displayed."

Any ideas how to fix the issue?

System Volume Information increase Daily Increase

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Hello Brothers, 

System Volume Information increase Daily Increase and way to delete theses files

This windows 2012 server which is domain control and have Veritas Netbackup client installed. 

We try some command and 

PS C:\Windows\system32> vssadmin delete shadows /all

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2013 Microsoft Corp.

 

Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context.  Try removing them with the

backup application which created them.


PS C:\Windows\system32> vssadmin delete shadows /for=D: /all

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2013 Microsoft Corp.


No items found that satisfy the query.

PS C:\Windows\system32>

Thanks, 

AD Backup

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Hi,

We have four Active Directory VMs in the environment. To schedule AD backup to backup system state etc via Windows Server Backup, it is per AD VM backup, not per domain, is this correct?

Does this mean we have to have a AD backup job on each of the AD VM?

There are Azure VMs running OS: WS 2012 R2

Thank you

Windows server full backup with Oracle hosted database

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Hi,

 

We are running Windows server 2012 R2 standard with Oracle hosted database and we want to take System image to test backup/restore in lab. My query is that will Oracle database work after restoring the system image in lab?

Over 1000 Files/Folders - Error/Limitation?? Tedious Restore Ahead?

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Hello everyone,

For years I've been telling my client that he needs to invest in a better backup solution other than Windows Server Backup.  This weekend I found out why, and it was something I did not know beforehand.  Upon his server crashing, he had a WD backup drive (an older one) that we used to perform weekly backups to that had basically all of the files and folders on his server backed up to.  He uses a sophisticated tax program, as he is an accountant.  Inside one of the folders of this program where his tax data for all of his clients is stored, there were a few hundred folders.  Well, I went to restore the main folder of this program which had the few hundred subdirectories under it.  Upon starting the restoration, it came up with a message/error that stated something to the effect that this folder has more than 1000 files/folders under it and that Windows Server Backup was limited to restoring 1000 files/folders at a time and nothing more.  The question I have is, am i really going to have to restore this data folder by folder?  Is there any way around this with the backup that we have here?  It is scary to think that I may have to literally go through the 10 step restore wizard in Windows Server Backup for 100's of folders and do each restoration individually.  Also, why would Microsoft create a backup solution for a server that has this limitation??  


Wbadmin.msc on windows server 2012 fails to start in MMC with error wbengine.exe 0xc000005

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Hi, 

Since some time now i have not been able to use the Windows server backup tool anymore.

I cant really tell since when this started, but for all i know the windows server backup service worked fine.

I even created a backup schedule and it made some backups. 

I am running this windows server 2012 Standard at home with just a couple of basic applications.

The server is used to host several websites with IIS, it manages my local DHCP and is used for locally shared storage.

There are no other security applications installed yet, because i am trieing to get rid of this error first. (so no symantec or whatever)

Since some time i am having trouble opening the windows backup snap-in. 

When ever i trie to open the Windows server backup snap-in i get the following error:

A fatal error occurred during a Windows Server Backup snap-in (Wbadmin.msc) operation.

Error details: The Windows Server Backup service has stopped. 

Close Wbadmin.msc and then restart it.

Whenever this error occures the folowing error is show in the windows logbook:

FLog Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          19-4-2013 15:26:32
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      SERVER
Description:
Faulting application name: wbengine.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50108cb6
Faulting module name: wbengine.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50108cb6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000012623a
Faulting process id: 0xf64
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce3d0181a982b2
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe
Report Id: bfdb9414-a8f4-11e2-941c-5404a6ecb4d8
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-04-19T13:26:32.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>7484</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>SERVER</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>wbengine.exe</Data>
    <Data>6.2.9200.16384</Data>
    <Data>50108cb6</Data>
    <Data>wbengine.exe</Data>
    <Data>6.2.9200.16384</Data>
    <Data>50108cb6</Data>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
    <Data>000000000012623a</Data>
    <Data>f64</Data>
    <Data>01ce3d0181a982b2</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe</Data>
    <Data>bfdb9414-a8f4-11e2-941c-5404a6ecb4d8</Data>


I tried to find simmilar cases over the internet but i cant seem to find a solution for the problem. 

I already tried to remove and reinstall the Windows server backup feature, this did not help. 

Is there anyone here that can help me find a solution for this problem ?

Thank you !

Best Regards Maikel

Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 Bare Metal Restore 0x0000007B Stop Error

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Hi,

 

I am tring to restore a Server 2008 R2 Standard Ed (full installation) RTM to a virtual machine, from a full Windows Server Backup image taken of a physical machine (Dell PE 2970).  All restores fine, and looks good until it tries to boot, when a Stop Error occurs, with the following error:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)

I believe the non-bracketed portion means "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE".

There is only the System Reserved volume + a C: volume (system volume) + F: volume (DVD drive) on the original server.  It has had other volumes in it before, which are correctly listed in the MountedDevices registry key, but they have not been physically present for a while.

The virtual disk I'm trying to restore to is several GBs larger than the original virtual disk on the RAID controller (2 disks in RAID 1).

I can't figure out why the server isn't booting.  I've successfully restored Server 2008 machines from physical machines to VMs before, including servers using hardware RAID cards (e.g. Dell SAS 6/iR).  The only difference I can think of is that this is Server 2008 R2, this is a 2 proc server (I've tried several virtual proc numbers on the VM to no avail), and the RAID controller is PERC 6/i, and this is the first server I've tried with that particular RAID card.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it's to point out that I'm looking in the wrong direction.

 

Many thanks,

 

Chris



Windows Server Backup - Retryable Error for Hyper-V

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Hi,

Recently when I'm trying to do a Windows server backup of my Hyper-V VMs, there are transient error failures during the backup attempt. The strange thing is that in the past, Windows server backup has always worked for me.

In vss admin list writers, the Hyper-V writer states retryable error.

If I restart the vmms service, sometimes the backup is successful, other times it still continues to fail. Other workarounds I have attempted are shutting down my VMs and restarting the Windows server backup - again this does not work all the time and I have to repeat such steps to get the backup to succeed.

Are there any ways that I can trace or troubleshoot why the backup is failing?

Thanks for the help.

Windows Server Backup - Running Backup on both Hyper-V and Hyper-V VMs at the same time

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Hi,

I have this scenario which I need clarifications.

My environment:
Hyper-V host running Windows Server backup for my VMs.
My VMs have Windows server backup installed in them and running as well.

My question is, if my Hyper-V host is doing a backup, and my VMs are also doing a backup at the same time, will there be a conflict?

Has anyone attempted this before and if this safe to do so? 

Thanks for the help.

VSS issue, event ID 22, 12289, 12293, error 0x8004230f Failed to retrieve volumes that are eligible for shadow copies

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I have a new Dell R710 that I have 2008 Server R2 64-bit installed. It's role is file server. I first noticed there were VSS initialization issues in BackupExec and that the system state wasn't getting backed up.
 
Then I would run "vssadmin list writers" from CMD and system writer would be timing out....
 
Writer name: 'System Writer'
    Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
    Writer Instance Id: {18370018-3454-46cf-a352-db13b2536aa6}
    State: [7] Failed
    Last error: Timed out
 
I would also get Event ID 12289 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\Volume{caaccaea-2a96-11e1-b14b-806e6f6e6963} - 0000000000000140,0x0053c020,00000000003BDFD0,0,00000000003BBFA0,4096,[0]).  hr = 0x80070057, The parameter is incorrect.
 
I would also get Event ID 12293 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::IsVolumeSupported() failed with 0x8000ffff [hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure
 
Also event ID 22 for volsnap The shadow copy storage volume specified for shadow copies on volume\\?\Volume{caaccaea-2a96-11e1-b14b-806e6f6e6963} could not be added.
 
Also I can't configure shadow copies due to error 0x8004230f "Failed to retrieve volumes that are eligible for shadow copies.

PLEASE HELP!

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