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AOFO: Initialization failure on C:. AOFO used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Created: 04 Oct 2012 | 3 comments
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Morning,

1 of my domains has recently had its setup overhauled.

Now:

Its a remote domain

1x SAN

2x Server 2008 Enterprise x64 with SQL 2012 - Windows clustered and SQL clustered

3x server 2008 Standard x64 web servers - No clustering at all.

 

Went live Monday and since then any job on any of those 5 servers will fail with:

 

Backup- server.domain

-AOFO: Initization Failure on "C:". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

V-79-10000-11213-

 

It doesnt matter if i uncheck the option to use AOFO - it will still complete with this exception

Disabling the firewall/Av makes no difference

2010R2 - No updates available apart from 2012

Anybody any ideas please?

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AOFO: Initialization failure on C:. AOFO used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) - Comment:04 Oct 2012 : Link

Hi Andrew,

 

There is 1 update not listed and that is to go to BE 2010 R3 with SP2. If you have maintenance in place with Symantec, it's simply a case of downloading it from the link below, and upgrading your media server.

 

http://trialware.norton.com/files/fc/Backup_Exec_2010_13.0.5204_MultiPlatforms_Multilingual_DVD.iso

You can run LiveUpdate to install SP2 and any subsequent patches before push-installing these to your remote servers.

IF you do the upgrade, make sure you grab copies of the Data/Catalogs folders before doing anything. This will allow you to rollback manually if need-be.

That said, run the following command from a command prompt: vssadmin list writers.

Your writers should all be stable and running. If not and they're in error or failed/failing, restarting the server normally helps.

Thanks!

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AOFO: Initialization failure on C:. AOFO used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) - Comment:04 Oct 2012 : Link

Hi Craig,

I dont believe we have maintenance - does that mean no upgrade?

We are running a NFR copy provided to us from Symantec.

I have checked all the writers on all 5 servers and all of them are stable with No Error.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

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AOFO: Initialization failure on C:. AOFO used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) - Comment:04 Oct 2012 : Link

Should still be OK to do so as you have the licenses which are able to be used with BE 2010 R3...

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