Application VSS Writer Disabled Error
I am trying to setup a new VM backup and when I choose the setting for VM's that are Application Aware and login I get this error message:
SqlServerWriter, NTDS VSS writer is missing or disabled. Please make sure that corresponding VSS writer is installed inside the backed up VM. You can check the list of installed VSS writers by "vssadmin list writers" command.
When I run the 'vssadmin list writers' command it displays many writers and this is the section related to the two mentioned:
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {e8a7361d-bf49-4fa7-8d87-df69114d05df}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {c8429a31-659c-4b7b-9907-859f96a02d4a}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {03d36228-80fe-4beb-95a8-d4a0ea37dcea}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'TS Gateway Writer'
Writer Id: {368753ec-572e-4fc7-b4b9-ccd9bdc624cb}
Writer Instance Id: {8038b39d-8c1a-49c2-9239-bbff74f81218}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {0871180c-94a3-4342-8f5e-0d353302bfab}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {fe0f23c2-deaa-4dfa-9175-79aef63b4b43}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {25d6133b-4982-4edb-a53b-435334a846cd}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {77550ce5-385d-461b-a477-0b2fc45faf09}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {650ee92a-14bd-47a0-86d5-019faf244cba}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
In the event log I get a VSS errors #22 and 8193 each time I refresh the credentials.
I have have rebooted the system several times, and have uninstalled and re-installed VMWare Tools but still get the same error.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
