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Developing a VSS writer app:
see this error during backup, initiated by windows backup tool,
is there defined error codes for 2155348129 from Microsoft?
The backup operation that started at '2010-07-20T02:54:19.354000000Z' 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 '2155348129'
This does not happen when VSSwriter service (my application) is stopped.
Any help is appreciated. Nothing useful found on TechNet.
Hackish workaround: Interestingly the back up works is when "windows partition is made active". Of course this leaves the system non-boot-able upon restart
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This error means that Microsoft VSS failed to take a snapshot of your file systems and that the backup job will be unable to backup any files that are opened exclusively by other applications. The most common cause of this error is that VSS has been disabled on one or more of the volumes that are part of the backup.
Problems with disk storage (such as full disks, failing disks, damaged RAID arrays, and the use of 4k drives on older systems) are particularly likely to cause VSS failures. However, hardware issues of any type can potentially impact the ability of the system to take snapshots using the VSS Writers.
Select the properties sheet's Shadow Copies tab. As you can see in the figure above, the Shadow Copies tab lists the server's volumes and tells you whether shadow copies are enabled or disabled for each volume. You can also see the number of shares for each volume.
Decimal 2155348129 is 0x807800A1 in hex.
Quickly searching the Internet for this value takes me to this blog:
This error code is of a special type called an HRESULT.
And TechNet has a table that lists our specific HRESULT value:
TechNet: Troubleshoot VSS issues that occur with Windows Server Backup (WBADMIN) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2:
2155348129
0x807800A1
A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for more information.
Note: VSS is short for Volume Shadow Copy Service. SPP is short for Shared Protection Point. They log into the regular Windows application event log. And they use VSS and SPP as their event-Source-identifier.
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