HI All,
Need a help from anyone who might have faced issue with system state backup using wbadmin.The issue occurs only with sysytem state ,the normal data drive gets backed up without any issues.
Details:OS: WINDOWS 2008 R2 ENT;APP: SQL SERVER 2008 R2 sp1
Issue: We have a sql server running on w2k8 r2 sp1 and have been in prod since last 3 years.Recently we started to get error while backing up system state on the server using wbadmin.Nothing is logged in wbadmin log files which are completely empty but followng events get genearted on the server duirng failure.event id 517.
event id: 517:
The backup operation that started at '2015-12-07T04:47:54.255915200Z' has failed with following error code '2155347997' (The operation ended before completion.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Tried to restart the server multiple times ,restarted crypto services,VSS but no avail.all old shadows were cleared too.
While running wbadmin via command,it seems to be using another drive while taking system state.Not able to figure out how its taking a data drive also for sysytem state.(J:) in this case.the destination drive has enough space to accomdate system state backup and c:\ drive.
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
Starting to back up the system state [12/7/2015 9:28 PM]...
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up the system state from volume(s) System Reserved (100.00 MB),Data(J:),SYSVOL(C:) to K:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Please wait while system state files to back up are identified.
This might take several minutes...
Summary of the backup operation:
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The backup of the system state failed [12/7/2015 9:30 PM].
Log of files successfully backed up:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-07-12-2015_21-29-00.log
Log of files for which backup failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-07-12-2015_21-29-00.log
The operation ended before completion.
The system cannot find the file specified.
ManeeshB
ManeeshB