[TruePurple]

Hi, I was searching different search engines and came across this
thread. I am having the same problem. XP pro as well and same error
message
>
> Backup Status
> Operation: Backup
> Active backup destination: File
> Media name: "Backup.bkf"
>
> Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:800423f4
> Aborting Backup.
> ----------------------
> The operation did not successfully complete.
> ----------------------

Its the same message every time I try it.



vssadmin list writers Wrote:
>
> vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line
> tool
> (C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
> Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
> Writer Instance Id: {763fba93-cae8-4aa3-8dd8-3979d00b6587}
> State: [1] Stable
>
> Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
> Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
> Writer Instance Id: {8332ebab-ecd7-4356-8086-f0b99d9ac879}
> State: [1] Stable
>
> Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)'
> Writer Id: {e38c2e3c-d4fb-4f4d-9550-fcafda8aae9a}
> Writer Instance Id: {d048444b-af9a-4a73-909c-18c4d7ba6c6c}
> State: [1] Stable
>
> Writer name: 'Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)'
> Writer Id: {f2436e37-09f5-41af-9b2a-4ca2435dbfd5}
> Writer Instance Id: {89c8c45e-83ea-4c99-b487-19b78fc7628e}
> State: [1] Stable

'Ran Kalach [MSFT Wrote:
> ']
> 2) Check in the event log in Application Log whether there are any logs
> with
> Source=VSS around the time of the failure? If so, please reply with the
> logs
> text. event application log? Do you mean previous error messages generated?
All of the error messages have been the same


'Ran Kalach [MSFT Wrote:
> ']Shadow Copy/Backup/VSS problems are better answered on
> microsoft.public.windows.file_system

Does replying to this thread the same as replying to the group like you
suggested earlier? I know that "microsoft.public.windows.file_system"
has something to do with a news group but I don't know anything about
news group and am not sure which forum that belongs to.


--
TruePurple