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Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello,

I've a problme with my free Agent for Windows.
My case number is 04286997.

I try to backup a physical Windows 212 R2 Standard Server with Veeam Agent Free.

I select volume level backup and I check "Operating system" on the volume selection.

We I start my backup, it fail with this error :
17/07/2020 09:56:22 :: Calculating digests Error: Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition
17/07/2020 09:56:51 :: Error: Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

If I uncheck "Operating system" the backup is working fine.

I don't find how I can solve this issue.

Could you help me ?

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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hi,

Please check Windows Event log, as this might give you a clue on the error message and keep working with our support team.

Thanks!
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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello,

I've nothing in Windows logs.

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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello pchatellier,

Try to update Veeam Agent for Windows to the latest version 4. This issue might be related to hidden recovery partition created by Windows updates and this behavior should be fixed with the latest version. Cheers!
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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello

I've just update Veeam Agent to the version 4, and all works fine now.

Thanks.
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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello,

Unfortunatly, I still have my problem after update to version 4.

We I try to backup on an external HDD backup job failed.

If I backup on internal HDD all works fine.

Thanks for help
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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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pchatellier,

Can you please confirm that operating system is checked? Did you get the same error message? Thank you!
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Hello,

Yes, I only have the problem when operating system is checked.

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Thanks! I'll ask support team to reopen the case as debug log investigation is required. Stay tuned!
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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello,

Ok thank you.
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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello pchatellier,

Have you managed to resolve this issue, as i am also facing the same thing :

17/07/2022 07:59:40 :: Calculating digests Error: Cannot find shadow copy of volume OS (C:)
17/07/2022 07:59:40 :: Error: Cannot find shadow copy of volume OS (C:)

My Event viewer is flooded with this error too :


The value with name specified in registry (SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\VssAccessControl) is not of type REG_DWORD. The entry is ignored. It must have a valid username as name, be of type REG_DWORD, and value either '0' or '1'. Value '0' denies the username from running any VSS writer. Value '1' is used to allow it.

I am using the latest version of Veeam, Please suggest !!!

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Re: Veeam Agent for Windows Free - Cannot find shadow copy of volume Recovery partition

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Hello SystemAli,

Try the solution described in this article, please open a support case and share the case ID with us. Thank you!
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