Veeam Backup VSS errors
VSS errors using Veeam backup:
To disable local VSS data
Log onto VM as Administrator
Open Command Prompt as Administrator
Use vssadmin at the command prompt:
c:\Vssadmin list shadows
Which showed me what drive was using VSS
In the GUI though the drive was listed as
shadow copies off but it still was using storage for VSS files.
Re-enabled VSS for that drive then
immediately disabled it again which deleted the old VSS files and set me back
to 0% used.
Alternatively I probably could have used
vssadmin to delete the VSS files as well using the
c:\vssadmin Delete Shadows
and
c:\vssadmin
Delete Shadow Storage
options.
I ran a restart of COM+ services from
services.mmc which restarted all the other dependencies as well.
I then
reran veeam backup job and no more VSS errors.
However if the next backup fails
with “failed to delete oib….” you will need to recreate the job, but you should not get the VSS errors anymore.
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