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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 descri...
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 er...
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:...
Symptom
A backup fails with the following error:
ERROR : 19:04:24 Backup failed: VSS snapshot creation failed. See FAQ https://bit.ly/2KQA9WI (0x8004...
Symptom
A backup fails with the error "VSS snapshot creation failed (0x80042306; provider veto)".
Cause
The VSS error "provider v...
If you encounter unusual errors (e.g. "Writer Infrastructure failed" or "Could not determine if VSS snapshots supported") and repeat...
Symptom
A backup fails with the error "The specified volume is nested too deeply to participate in the VSS operation. (0x8004232c)".
Cause...
Symptom
A backup fails with the error "Timed out waiting for VSS operation to complete".
Backup failed: Timed out waiting for VSS operation ...