Troubleshooting
Symptom The backup or restore logs will display an error message "GC overhead limit exceeded" when restoring or backing up using the ESE Agent: ...
Symptom The following error message is seen when a file is in use and therefore being handled by VSS. Warning: 21:47:05 Failed to read security descripto...
Symptom Thie following warning message is seen when a file is in use and therefore being handled by VSS (since VSS creates the GLOBALROOT snapshot path): ...
Symptom When a backup completes, you may encounter a Windows event log similar to the following: Volume shadow copy service error: Unexpected error on...
Symptom When running a backup, you may encounter the error "Unknown VSS or COM error". Message: 10:05:06 Starting VSS snapshot
Error: 10:05:07 ...
Symptom A backup fails with the following error: ERROR : 19:04:24 Backup failed: VSS snapshot creation failed.
See FAQ https://bit.ly/2KQA9WI (0x8004230...
Symptom A backup fails with the error "VSS snapshot creation failed (0x80042306; provider veto)". Cause The VSS error "provider veto&q...
If you encounter unusual errors (e.g. "Writer Infrastructure failed" or "Could not determine if VSS snapshots supported") and repeat fai...
Symptom A backup fails with the error "The specified volume is nested too deeply to participate in the VSS operation. (0x8004232c)". Cause T...
Symptom A backup fails with the error "Timed out waiting for VSS operation to complete". Backup failed: Timed out waiting for VSS operation to ...