Determining whether a virtual machine backup might fail
Check the status of the VSS writers in a guest virtual machine to determine whether a virtual machine backup with application protection might fail.
About this task
Procedure
From the Command
Prompt window, issue
the following command:
vssadmin list writers
The
following sample shows the command output:Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {debc861a-7709-48b4-86a5-0a62457dc4a0}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
The State field
indicates the status of the VSS writer.