Hello Terabyte!
First major problem in ~30 years with your products.
Windows 11. SSD 500G. Windows partition has 150G, 65Gb of which are occupied.
Vss failure during backup with IFW.
I cannot follow these instructions: https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/kb ... ng-backup/
Reason : the "Properties" line is not present in Windows 11 !
So, could you please give me another path to access the window "My computer>properties'>etc.. that works in Windows 11.
Thanks,
Paul Brussels Belgium
Registered owner
PS:By the way: do not stop Phylock, please..
Seems like your referring to the IVssWriterCallback error logged to the Event Log. That's normal and doesn't affect anything, the article explains how to prevent it if it bothers you.
Well...If I say : "Vss failure during backup with IFW.", this means that the backup process stopped.
Which is something affecting me...
(and this this means also that VSS was able to start).
On your W11 do you have the 'line' : Properties when you right-click My Computer to go to the COM security tab ?
Also in general if VSS can't cache all changes for whatever reason you'll get a failure just like phylock. Those steps in the prior article linked may help.
You can use vssadmin list providers and vss admin list writers to see status of things. Also the event log, but you can ignore Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005
Once you get VSS (part of Windows) fixed up then things should start working again.
To finish this thread:
My Windows installation was fresh, so there were no errors.
The 'vssadmin list shadowstorage' command returned a storage space of 1.82 GB.
I increased it to 4 GB.
I ran four backup tests with IFW, with no VSS errors.
But obviously, I can't conclude anything...
Anyway, I'm stopping VSS and going back to using Phylock.
Thks
