If you are doing backups over the cluster, make sure that you are not having 2 clients with both shared drives defined as work around to the Avamar server and runs the backup at the same time.
This server is not a cluster it is a single standalone server. The only thing it has is VMware Server (legacy system) with 5 VMs all running locally. Could it be that VSS is trying to snapshot 150GB of running VMs? I know it's not because of running VMs because I have some developer machines that has VMware Workstation with running VMs and Avamar is able to VSS them fine.
You can use command to verify: running "vssadmin list writers” and “vssadmin list providers” – it should crash with same 0x8000ffff before displaying any writers.
You were on the right track. Although both commands "vssadmin list writers" and "vssadmin list providers" completed successfully without errors and I did see the writers listed, when I tried to do a manual shadow copy it error out with "Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error WaitForMultipleObjects(1,00000000002FFD20,1,10000) == 0x00000102. hr = 0x8000ffff". I Googled and found this page (http://ituncovered.com/?p=19) on fixing VSS errors and their resolution fixed the problem for me.
5uR68oOE7d12317
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July 20th, 2010 08:00
Hi
If you are doing backups over the cluster, make sure that you are not having 2 clients with both shared drives defined as work around to the Avamar server and runs the backup at the same time.
Thanks
Rudy
fl1
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July 20th, 2010 09:00
Rudresh,
This server is not a cluster it is a single standalone server. The only thing it has is VMware Server (legacy system) with 5 VMs all running locally. Could it be that VSS is trying to snapshot 150GB of running VMs? I know it's not because of running VMs because I have some developer machines that has VMware Workstation with running VMs and Avamar is able to VSS them fine.
Charels
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July 26th, 2010 22:00
Your VSS install itself is corrupt
You can use command to verify: running "vssadmin list writers” and “vssadmin list providers” – it should crash with same 0x8000ffff before displaying any writers.
fl1
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July 27th, 2010 08:00
Charels,
You were on the right track. Although both commands "vssadmin list writers" and "vssadmin list providers" completed successfully without errors and I did see the writers listed, when I tried to do a manual shadow copy it error out with "Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error WaitForMultipleObjects(1,00000000002FFD20,1,10000) == 0x00000102. hr = 0x8000ffff". I Googled and found this page (http://ituncovered.com/?p=19) on fixing VSS errors and their resolution fixed the problem for me.
Thanks.