From: Brian on
Disregard, I found the issue. It appears the vssadmin.exe file was corrupt.

From a command prompt vssadmin.exe was giving no output, as if I typed nothing and just hit enter. I copied the executable from a known good server, overwriting the existing file. Now I get full output as expected, and scheduled shadow copies are now working again.



Brian N wrote:

Shadow Copies not working on schedule
17-Jan-10

I'm experiencing the same issue as the original poster on a server with Windows 2k3 Standard Ed., x86 w/ SP2.

I tried both fixes posted here regarding the *\RSA\* folder, but with no positive results. Scheduled shadow copy still fails with 0xc000001d error result in the scheduler window, but manual Shadow copies work fine.

I can create a manual copy via the GUI of the Drive properties page, but not manually using the command line, i.e. (vssadmin.exe create shadow /for=f:). The command line is what the scheduled task is also attemping to use, although it uses the drive GUID instead of the drive letter.

Anything else I should try?

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