BackupExec or Backup Exec VSS issue with Windows System Path
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Problem: V-79-10000-11226 – VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot technology selected returned: “Unexpected provider error”. Ensure that all provider services are enabled and can be started. Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.
The following volumes are dependent on resource: “C:” .
Analysis: Since this was a VSS writer issue on a Windows 2008 R2 server, the first thing I ran was “vssadmin list writers” to see what writers were failing. The failing writers were all Windows system writers like the WMI Writer. So I re-registered the writers running a batch script, but you can accomplish the same thing by restarting the server. (more…)
