Category Archives: Backup Exec

VSS Writers

Excellent list of services to restart when a VSS Writer is playing up (and thus avoids a whole server restart) http://www.planetcobalt.net/sdb/vss_writers.shtml  

VSSFix

http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50010.aspx VSSfix 32bit – download VSSfix 64bit – download Unable to confirm this software is helpful at this time (it didn’t solve the problem I had when I found it) but could prove useful in the future. vssfix incase links go bad

V-79-10000-11226 – VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider selected returned: “Unexpected provider error”. Ensure that all provider services are enabled and can be started. Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.

Problems initially presented as a Backup Exec job completing with exceptions with the following message in the Job Log Backup- PTISVR2 – AOFO: Initialization failure on: “D:”. Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11226 – VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider selected returned: “Unexpected… Read More »

0xe000fed1 – A failure occurred querying the Writer status. See the job log for details about the error.

Job ended: 05 April 2014 at 01:12:06 Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe000fed1 – A failure occurred querying the Writer status. See the job log for details about the error. Final error category: Resource Errors For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-65233 — As per… http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-performance/backups-failing-during-the-night/af99f1ba-48fd-42d4-b784-eb517d205cce Hi, What type of files are… Read More »

Setting maximum memory limits on SQL embedded instances

Open up SQL Server Management Studio, connect to \\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query, right click the server and click Properties. Set the Max Server Memory to 256.   Recommendations for the usual suspects… Instance Tried and tested Max Limit microsoft##ssee 256mb WSUS 256mb SBSMonitoring 70mb SharePoint Unknown – Not been brave enough to tweak this. Seen 384mb as a suggestion.Set Abstrakt… Read More »

VSS Snapshot warning. File %BeBootDrive%\bootmgr is not present on the snapshot.

VSS Snapshot warning. File %BeBootDrive%\bootmgr is not present on the snapshot. Workaround: Exclude the ASR writer from the list of approved writers ASR writer id is ‘{BE000CBE-11FE-4426-9C58-531AA6355FC4}’. 1. Go to:  Start > Run, key in regedt32 press Enter. 2. Then go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Backup Exec for Windows Servers \Engine\Shadow Copy Components\ 3. Then create a new Additional… Read More »

Recommend exclusions for Backup Exec on SBS 2011 server

Assuming Sharepoint & SQL Server is located on C: drive C:\*.LDF /SUBDIR /EXCLUDE C:\*.MDF /SUBDIR /EXCLUDE   Do NOT select Microsoft SQL Server “SHAREPOINT”. Instead select “Microsoft SharePoint Resources”   Updated 26/09/2013… SharePoint*.?DF ShareWebDb*.?df WSS_Search*.?df   Update 28/01/2015 \\*\*\**itunes*\ \\*\*\**\SharePoint*.?DF \\*\*\**\ShareWebDb*.?df \\*\*\**\WSS_Search*.?df

Backup Exec Errors & SBS SQL Instances. Also SQL Instances memory capping

Backup Exec Errors —————— Backup- WebApplication\Content-DB 1 (ATHAGSERV\MICROSOFT##SSEE\SharePoint_AdminContent_d4e397f2-a27a-48a0-a628-d25db6672bab)V-79-40960-37914 – Database SharePoint_AdminContent_d4e397f2-a27a-48a0-a628-d25db6672bab is configured to maintain transaction logs. Transaction log backups are not being performed. This will result in the log growing to fill all available disk space. Regular log backups should be scheduled or the database should be changed to the simple recovery mode. Backup-… Read More »