We have Server 2008 R2 that runs our AD and 7 vss writers are currently in failed state which prevents Backup Exec 2010 R3 from successfully completing backup jobs. Server reboot does not make any difference. Any advice how to correct this problem and restart failing writers would be greatly appreciated, please see below:
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
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Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {2d04dd9e-7f50-4d73-a209-80e9948d2460}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {18d13944-9659-4b05-a29f-254176b9b83f}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {316433d1-184e-4b49-b119-531ad256f861}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
Writer Instance Id: {5a5e8043-d7b4-42e5-89dd-e039472b677a}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {db6fab26-69d8-4906-b876-5ce442d03c8e}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {5355b534-732a-4f2b-b8ba-73bf64063263}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {1bf8aaa9-a5f7-4fa7-bfca-dcbf3f2a880d}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {a03128e5-ee5f-4291-9782-aefa7ef3ab9c}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {627bd54e-9888-443a-ae46-09c5913ae911}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {d180c79c-c74f-4f3f-bff6-7029c764d465}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
Writer Instance Id: {eeea94bc-4ecf-453b-83db-8ce7f080156e}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {21ce4154-6e49-4a03-929d-8d6bad8a7080}
State: [7] Failed
Last error: Timed out