On every windows machine there seems to be people ignoring the fact that all application critical backups often use this old Gem from Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To find all writers in the system AND GET ITS STATUS! To get all present ”shadows” To list all shadowstorage present and how they might be limited To Delete all present Shadows To manually create a new shadow To delete the backup catalog On every windows machine there seems to be people ignoring the fact that all application critical backups often use this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-okategoriserade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rimfalt.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} vssadmin list writers<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nvssadmin list shadows<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nvssadmin list shadowstorage<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nvssadmin delete shadows \/for=c: \/all<\/code>
Remove all shadows on ALL volumes..vssadmin delete shadows \/all<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nvssadmin create shadow \/for=C:<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nwbadmin delete catalog<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"