On every windows machine there seems to be people ignoring the fact that all application critical backups often use this old Gem from Microsoft.
This like this pop upp all the time ” We dont care about it we use Weeam for backups…” :-/
(For you who didnt get it… Weeam and almost every other Windows backup software uses the WSS all the time internally to make application aware backups… (and that wahts you want)
Wss can and is so very oftern the caus of the backup failure that happends.
Here i collect som good commands that i use to troubleshoot the WSS. Enjoy!
To find all writers in the system AND GET ITS STATUS! vssadmin list writers
To get all present ”shadows”vssadmin list shadows
To list all shadowstorage present and how they might be limitedvssadmin list shadowstorage
To Delete all present Shadowsvssadmin delete shadows /for=c: /all
Remove all shadows on ALL volumes..vssadmin delete shadows /all
To manually create a new shadowvssadmin create shadow /for=C:
To delete the backup catalogwbadmin delete catalog