Backups

[Bernard]

I'm a new user to XP and am trying to use the backup
facility. I seem to go through all the right moves only to
get the following message

Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "GLAU.bkf created 23/06/2003 at 22:37"


Error returned while creating the volume shadow
copy:800423f4
Aborting Backup.

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The operation did not successfully complete.

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What am I doing wrong

Bernard

[Ran Kalach [MSFT]]

Bernard,

Backup aborts because it fails to create a shadow copy. In windows XP,
backup uses the Volume Shadow Copy service for creating a shadow-copy
volume. The backup application then copies the files from the shadow copy
volume to the backup media.

In order to analyze the problem on your machine better, can you please
1) Run from a Cmd window "vssadmin list writers" right after the error
occurs and reply to the group with the output.
2) Check in the event log in Application Log whether there are any logs with
Source=VSS around the time of the failure? If so, please reply with the logs
text.

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Thanks,
Ran

P.S. Shadow Copy/Backup/VSS problems are better answered on
microsoft.public.windows.file_system

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"Bernard" > wrote in message
...
> I'm a new user to XP and am trying to use the backup
> facility. I seem to go through all the right moves only to
> get the following message
>
> Backup Status
> Operation: Backup
> Active backup destination: File
> Media name: "GLAU.bkf created 23/06/2003 at 22:37"
>
>
> Error returned while creating the volume shadow
> copy:800423f4
> Aborting Backup.
>
> ----------------------
>
> The operation did not successfully complete.
>
> ----------------------
>
> What am I doing wrong
>
> Bernard
>
>

[TruePurple]

Hi, I was searching different search engines and came across this thread. I am having the same problem. XP pro as well and same error message

Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Backup.bkf"

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:800423f4
Aborting Backup.
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The operation did not successfully complete.
----------------------

Its the same message every time I try it.




vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
Writer Instance Id: {763fba93-cae8-4aa3-8dd8-3979d00b6587}
State: [1] Stable

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {8332ebab-ecd7-4356-8086-f0b99d9ac879}
State: [1] Stable

Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)'
Writer Id: {e38c2e3c-d4fb-4f4d-9550-fcafda8aae9a}
Writer Instance Id: {d048444b-af9a-4a73-909c-18c4d7ba6c6c}
State: [1] Stable

Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)'
Writer Id: {f2436e37-09f5-41af-9b2a-4ca2435dbfd5}
Writer Instance Id: {89c8c45e-83ea-4c99-b487-19b78fc7628e}
State: [1] Stable

']
2) Check in the event log in Application Log whether there are any logs with
Source=VSS around the time of the failure? If so, please reply with the logs
text. event application log? Do you mean previous error messages generated? All of the error messages have been the same


']Shadow Copy/Backup/VSS problems are better answered on
microsoft.public.windows.file_system

Does replying to this thread the same as replying to the group like you suggested earlier? I know that "microsoft.public.windows.file_system" has something to do with a news group but I don't know anything about news group and am not sure which forum that belongs to.