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Recently I was working on a problem for a Windows Server 2008 system where the daily incremental backups were failing. These backups had never worked, but the weekly full backups were successful. First step was reviewing the failed backup logs (these were CommVault logs), and you could see the following: and So, the next thing you do is run up a command prompt and check the vss writers on that server: The system writer was not listed. Next step was to check if there were any conflicting tasks such as AV scans running at the same time as the backup, there weren’t any. I thenRead More →