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HYPER-V: Activity 'Creating application-consistent (VSS) snapshot' succeeded with the following warning: 'The task has completed with errors.'

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Got this error every time for one VM server.
Background:
VM server is Essentials 2012R2 originally backed up from vSpehere with Acronis Backup v.12 and restored to HYPER-V

Sometime ago upgraded Acronis to v.12.5.7048

Inside VM got these event IDs:
Event ID 489 ESENT
lsass (592) An attempt to open the file "\\?\Volume{5924ef6e-a84d-11e4-80b4-806e6f6e6963}\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit" for read only access failed with system error 32 (0x00000020): "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ".  The open file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).

 

Event ID 8229
A VSS writer has rejected an event with error 0x800423f4, The writer experienced a non-transient error.  If the backup process is retried,
the error is likely to reoccur.
. Changes that the writer made to the writer components while handling the event will not be available to the requester. Check the event log for related events from the application hosting the VSS writer.
Operation:
   PostSnapshot Event
Context:
   Execution Context: Writer
   Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Name: NTDS
   Writer Instance ID: {63cd39d5-4b74-49f0-a434-53817600cd9f}
   Command Line: C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
   Process ID: 592
  
NTDS Backup Event ID: 3221226640
Internal error: An Active Directory Domain Services error has occurred.
Additional Data
Error value (decimal):
-1032
Error value (hex):
fffffbf8
Internal ID:
160207c9
  
So far have done following:
-vssadmin list writers always show stable and no errors for all writers
-ran sfc /scannow first round it found something to repair, second time everything was without errors
-rebooted VM several times
-dcdiag does not show any errors, AD seems to work fine.
-Disabled Hyper-V Integration Services "Backup (volume checkpoint)" , tried to backup: same error, enabled it again still same error

 

Is the error something to do with restoring did not go well or something else?
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I would suggest to open a support ticket on this issue. My guess is a conflict or incompatible VSS Writer.  You probably have some carry over writer(s) from the backup from vsphere.  Your errors point to NTDS writer which I believe to be the Active Directory Server writer.  You might look at services and make sure that writer is running prior to running the backup task.  This could also be a permissions error as well.