SQL VSS writer issue

• grahamcoogan-866862

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  October 16, 2008 at 5:24 am

  #125217

  Hi all,

  I'm having quite an unusual issue regarding the SQL vss writer. Whats basically happening is that it does not seem to be registered at all on the server.

  The service is installed and started but it is not displayed when the "vssadmin list writers" command is run. (Output below)

  I have tried stopping and restarting the service, I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the component with no luck.

  I am running SQL 2005 with SP 2.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks a mill,

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  Writer name: 'System Writer'

  Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}

  Writer Instance Id: {0517e7b7-9472-4ead-95d7-e17a3e1dbb5a}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

  Writer name: 'Registry Writer'

  Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}

  Writer Instance Id: {950f42e4-87c8-489a-a542-eecd715550f0}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

  Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'

  Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}

  Writer Instance Id: {88b32cbd-c2ce-4c56-bbd0-25c04e0e3504}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

  Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'

  Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}

  Writer Instance Id: {521293b7-0d4b-4277-b919-7cec76dfbdb3}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

  Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'

  Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}

  Writer Instance Id: {8de8c9c6-d054-4d64-b386-add22bffb971}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

  Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'

  Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}

  Writer Instance Id: {5facc7a6-3630-4312-aa90-4585ba6e7dbd}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

  Writer name: 'WMI Writer'

  Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}

  Writer Instance Id: {ee9b1bc8-8fe2-4fe5-93c3-509ce562ebc1}

  State: [1] Stable

  Last error: No error

• arun.zakaria

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  July 3, 2013 at 6:05 am

  #1629493

  I have a SQL server VM running SQL Server 2005 on windows server 2003.

  The SQL Server VSS writer always go to a retryable state everytime the Veeam backup for the database kicks in.

  What is the reason why this writer goes to retryable state.

  Thanks,