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How to manually restart VSS Writers in a

failed state without Rebooting Server.


Oct 26, 2021•Consolidated Knowledge Type

Title

How to manually restart VSS Writers in a failed state without Rebooting Server.
Release
Primary Product
Arcserve Backup
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Product
Arcserve Backup
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Task
Article Body

Description:
There are instances when snapshots are fail due to an agent's VSS writers being
in a failed state but it is impossible or not desirable to restart the server until at
least after business hours.

Solution:
An alternative solution other than restarting the server is to restart the
associated services for each of the VSS writers showing up in a failed state by
following the steps below:

 Find each of the VSS writers in a failed state by using the command in
command prompt (Run As Administrator) - ' vssadmin list writers '.
 Mark and copy all the failed VSS writers.
 Find the VSS writer's associated Service Display Name in the table below
and restart the service.
 To confirm the status has changed Stable with no Error - type - vssadmin
list writers
 Run another Backup/snapshot.
 If the VSS writers fail again, it would be necessary to restart the server.

List Of Writers:

VSS Writer Service Name Service Display Name


ASR Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy
Background Intelligent Transfer
BITS Writer BITS
Service
COM+ REGDB Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy
DFS Replication service writer DFSR DFS Replication
DHCP Jet Writer DHCPServer DHCP Server
FRS Writer NtFrs File Replication
FSRM writer srmsvc File Server Resource Manager
IIS Config Writer AppHostSvc Application Host Helper Service
IIS Metabase Writer IISADMIN IIS Admin Service
Microsoft Exchange Writer MSExchangeIS Microsoft Exchange Information Store
Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer vmms
Management
NTDS NTDS Active Directory Domain Services
OSearch VSS Writer OSearch Office SharePoint Server Search
OSearch14 VSS Writer OSearch14 SharePoint Server Search 14
Registry Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy
Shadow Copy Optimization
VSS Volume Shadow Copy
Writer
SPSearch VSS Writer SPSearch Windows SharePoint Services Search
SPSearch4 VSS Writer SPSearch4 SharePoint Foundation Search V4
SqlServerWriter SQLWriter SQL Server VSS Writer
System Writer CryptSvc Cryptographic Services
TermServLicensing TermServLicensing Remote Desktop Licensing
Windows Internet Name Service
WINS Jet Writer WINS
(WINS)
Windows Management
WMI Writer Winmgmt Instrumentation

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