Symptom: When you backup a VHD to a network share which is a local drive, it may fails with the following error: The backup operation to \\server\b$\daily\a\ is starting. Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup... Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup......

Symptom: A few customers reported the following issue: Environment: DPM 2010 installed on Windows2008 R2 SP1 with hyper-v enabled. When the customers go to create a protection group that includes Hyper-V protection, they get an error message (ID: 31313) that you need to install the patch...

Symptom: Sometimes Windows Server Backup failed to backup the data. The error is: The shared restore point operation failed with error (0x81000101) The creation of a shadow copy has timed out. Try this operation again. In the event viewer, found the following error: The backup operation that...

Symptom: ============== When you do a backup you get an error 0x81000019, the message is: "A shadow copy could not be created. Please check the 'VSS' and 'SPP' application event logs for more information. Details: Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or...

Recently we found several threads that customers reported windows server backup failed with error “the version does not support this version of the file format”. Symptom: You try to backup the files and folders on a windows server 2008 R2 system, the backup target is a share folder...

Recently, we have been seeing a large number of threads from the forum that system restore points will disappear after windows 7 reboot. When the issue happens, one or more of the following events could be logged: Event ID 22 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume...