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Getting VSS Error ID 8200 while taking VSS Snapshot backup. API IVssWriterComponentsExt.GetWriterInfo is failed with error VSS_E_INVALID_XML_DOCUMENT
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Subodh Agnihotri
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We are developing an application to backup our filesystem files via VSS. We are getting an issue while gathering writer component info which is blocking us to move ahead with building the tool. Can someone please help? Detailed logs here:
IVssBackupComponents::GetWriterComponentsCount() SUCCESS. WriterCompCount: 1 IVssBackupComponents::GetWriterComponents() SUCCESS. WriterIndex: 0 IVssWriterComponentsExt: 0x1becae04c50 IVssWriterComponentsExt::GetWriterInfo() FAILED. ERROR: VSS error: IVssWriterComponentsExt.GetWriterInfo: VSS_E_INVALID_XML_DOCUMENT - The given XML document is invalid. It is either incorrectly-formed XML or it does not match the schema. (0x5653535f455f494e56414c49445f584d4c5f444f43554d454e54202d2054686520676976656e20584d4c20646f63756d656e7420697320696e76616c69642e2049742069732065697468657220696e636f72726563746c792d666f726d656420584d4c206f7220697420646f6573206e6f74206d617463682074686520736368656d612e)
Event log:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: An unexpected error was encountered examining the XML document. The document is missing the WRITER_COMPONENTS element.
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Jeanine Zhang-MSFT 9,771 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2024-04-30T02:49:19.0533333+00:00 VSS_E_INVALID_XML_DOCUMENT: The XML document is not valid.
According to the Event log: The XML document is missing the WRITER_COMPONENTS element.
I suggest you could refer to the Doc: Event and Error Handling Under VSS
And you could try to call
CreateVssExamineWriterMetadatato examine the metadata obtained from a stored XML document by an instance of IVssExamineWriterMetadata obtained. -
Jeanine Zhang-MSFT 9,771 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2024-05-03T07:29:23.73+00:00 Have you got any updates about this issue?
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