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Sqllib error: OLEDB Error encountered calling ICommandText::Execute. hr = 0x80040e14. SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3013
Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0
Error message: BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3271
Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0
Error message: A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file "{433A32CD-042A-4426-9C89-C41D9C2664AD}19:" 995(The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.).
Have done a disk shadow check and following error appears:
ERROR: Selected writer "SqlServerWriter" is in a failed state - Status: 8 (VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT) - Writer failure code: 0x (VSS_E_WRITERERROR_NONRETRYABLE) - Writer ID: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a} - Instance ID: {58660fa7-7d39-4754-9787-3e4d897b5601} The last operation failed. - Returned HRESULT: 80042301 - Error text: VSS_E_BAD_STATE
More exactly are you running this backup? It does not seem that you are running it from SSMS, but rather some third-party tool that uses the VSS service? If you are using a third-party tool, I would suggest that you contact the vendor.
To me this sounds more like a problem that requires Windows knowledge, so I have added Windows Server as a tag to your post.
yes, it's a cloud backup utility and the vender suggested to contact Microsoft to solve the problem
A vendor that does not support its own product? Are you sure that you want to continue to work with this vendor?
Yes, it may be some issue in Windows, but at least the vendor should be prepared to work together with you, if you open a support case. And be prepared to foot your bill, if it turns out that it is after all a deficiency in their product.
Just for the record: posting here is not really "contact Microsoft". This is a community forum.
The vendor tried assisting, We have done various solutions but kept on failing, The sql backup runs on a schedule on the whole instance and then it fails, we managed to run the backup plan on each Database manually which the completed but after the manual run if you manually started it on the whole instance it fails with and the original event error is created, Vendor assisted with Diskshadow solution, we increase the SQL work thread and made sure all updates is up to date. Hence the vendor ask to contact Microsoft as they are the vendor of SQL software
So one of you has to open a support case. (Because it does not seem that anyone here knows how to deal with it.) And there has to be an agreement on who is going to foot the bill for the support case. Well, if it proves to be a Microsoft bug, Microsoft will take the cost, but I deem that less likely.
But even if you open the case, I think Microsoft will request to have a contact at the vendor. That, or they might just say that the vendor is doing something wrong.
Hi @Riaan Fourie
Seems like a Windows Server backup error because of the SQL Server VSS writer.
Please check this doc for detailed information about cause and resolution.
Best regards,
Cosmog
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