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Backup fails with VSS snapshot error

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Hi all, I'm suddenly getting this error after a few days of good backups, I did search the forum and not sure if the results are related to mine as I don't have a cluster and needs to have app aware processing enabled for exchange, also I'm not running out of space on any of the vm partitions and on the back up location, here's the error, thanks in advanced -

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Failed to create snapshot (Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0) (mode: Veeam application-aware processing) Details: Unknown status of async operation The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information. --tr:Failed to create VSS snapshot. --tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.
Retrying snapshot creation attempt (Unknown status of async operation The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information. --tr:Failed to create VSS snapshot. --tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.)
Task has been rescheduled
Queued for processing at 7/11/2016 6:34:40 PM
Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: Unknown status of async operation The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information. --tr:Failed to create VSS snapshot. --tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.
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Re: Backup fails with VSS snapshot error

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Re: Backup fails with VSS snapshot error

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Here's my case id - #01851012
thanks
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Re: Backup fails with VSS snapshot error

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Did you

"Check the System and Application event logs for more information."

of the affected VM? It'll likely point to the reason
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Re: Backup fails with VSS snapshot error

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Thanks for the reply, I'm working with support and they looked at all my logs, they think it's on MS's side, after some searching here, I found this, looks like MS hyper-v and VSS has issues with B&R - microsoft-hyper-v-f25/why-do-hyper-v-vm ... 30920.html
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[MERGED] Failed to create snapshot

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Hello,

Many backup job's started finishing up with the following warning, see example:

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Failed to create snapshot IBM Storage Volume Shadow Copy Service Hardware Provider on Hyper-V Off-Host Backup Proxy (mode: Hyper-V child partition snapshot) Details: Failed to add volume [\\?\Volume{1d1af157-eac8-4505-8038-fc78d9b1a2dd}\] to the VSS snapshot set The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information. --tr:Failed to add volumes to the snapshot set. --tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.
Retrying snapshot creation attempt (Failed to add volume [\\?\Volume{1d1af157-eac8-4505-8038-fc78d9b1a2dd}\] to the VSS snapshot set The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information. --tr:Failed to add volumes to the snapshot set. --tr:Failed to perform pre-backup tasks.)
Task has been rescheduled
Also,

Almost every replica job finshes with, see example:

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Failed to apply retention policy for VM: EX3SRV_rep Error: The operation has timed out.
Then retry starts and finishes in a second, retension point removed. I read that these issues can occur after hosts updates when in veeam sql db hosts entries duplicate. But I do not know how to exclude those duplicates.
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