Backups had been working fine for till last month but all of a sudden they began to fail.
System: Windows Server 2008 Std
Updates: All updates are installed
Error message :
The backup operation that started at '2014-07-17T02:18:18.338000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348249'. Please review the event
details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Here is my Volume shadow copy service details (In my Server that i want to backup):
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (\\?\Volume{0f696d27-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e6963}\)\\?\Volume{0f6
96d27-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (\\?\Volume{0f696d27-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e6963}
\)\\?\Volume{0f696d27-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e6963}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 32 MB (32%)
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (F:)\\?\Volume{fd0a7fae-2fc9-11e3-b5c0-ac162d7483fb}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (F:)\\?\Volume{fd0a7fae-2fc9-11e3-b5c0-ac162d7483
fb}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 6 GB (10%)
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{0f696d28-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{0f696d28-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 24.404 GB (10%)
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (D:)\\?\Volume{0f696d29-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (D:)\\?\Volume{0f696d29-0889-11e3-add9-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 25.474 GB (10%)
What could be the reason ? how to fix it ?