Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
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C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers
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Writer name: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {2e04ffeb-f218-438c-803d-9c417e2fb859}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {0b7e50e1-99e4-4d86-ac95-eaa4c821b093}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {190b4d74-729d-4bbf-a07f-b96d8673016d}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {653ec6e8-a74b-4b90-a174-6e4aecfa059e}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
Writer Instance Id: {683976ac-e04e-4ef9-8e4c-1932e8c0fb3e}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {e947c803-0a18-44b1-9f26-8cb79b937525}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {7c97fe64-24f7-4a79-8ded-50018c3bfe3a}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Certificate Authority'
Writer Id: {6f5b15b5-da24-4d88-b737-63063e3a1f86}
Writer Instance Id: {cf6a0004-c8c6-4c07-b6cb-c6d3e08efc09}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'TS Gateway Writer'
Writer Id: {368753ec-572e-4fc7-b4b9-ccd9bdc624cb}
Writer Instance Id: {6fd860ae-b8fd-4225-975a-fb6279fdfc7a}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SPSearch VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {57af97e4-4a76-4ace-a756-d11e8f0294c7}
Writer Instance Id: {07e20a97-7c2f-4a3a-b932-5309ec46c1ac}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: Out of resources
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {8c92773f-cb5f-4342-9cf8-51e6ffdb26db}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {fe21a47b-7ed1-4d73-8ef7-99a4e449067c}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {8cc9cba0-85e0-4ff6-a049-0c98288be0dd}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {0949f47f-0b61-467a-a0c3-02fff49bcd51}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {8c5c7a2e-2b79-492f-98cc-771d7fd71f34}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
Writer Instance Id: {491e0f06-f850-4332-9e9c-5c37e3a8717b}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'NPS VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {35e81631-13e1-48db-97fc-d5bc721bb18a}
Writer Instance Id: {b05d19f5-00b0-4389-a2a4-e58593455e16}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {42112e85-0ff5-4a66-afb2-2772591a3c95}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {72ee2c3e-ed88-46aa-8797-8335f311fcf8}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: No error
C:\Windows\system32>Hi everyone,
Backup is failing on this SBS 2008 server which is a fairly recent fresh install. Unfortunately due to the client location they are very remote and only run a mobile broadband solution which is very slow and is expensive if they go over their small quota. When the SBS server was installed onsite it was found that the next day nobody could access the internet any longer. I have since found a tech who followed these instructions to disable WSUS as he thought it was eating up all their bandwidth however we now know this was not the case.
Would someone kindly assist me to reinstalling the database and resolving these writers issues (as above) so we can get backup working again? Unfortunately all this was done before a full server backup had been taken so the server has never been successfully backed up as yet.
Many thanks.