Errors in Logs

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Hi again, I’ve search the forum and www about my next inquiry, but didn’t not find an answer to this.
Therefore i hope for find any infos here.

Now to the cause of my post:
On all of my XP machines (i know, i should switch to something newer) i get the following log error in UrBackup: Writer MSDEWriter has failure state VSS_WS_STABLE with error VSS_E_WRITERERROR_NONRETRYABLE. UrBackup will continue with the backup but the associated data may not be consistent.

How to fix or or identify this error?

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You can take a look at the system error log or wherever the application logs errors.
MSDEWriter belongs to Microsoft SQL Server?

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Same error here, and also with XP (32 bits):

2014-03-10 17:04:18(info): Starting full file backup…
2014-03-10 17:05:40(error): Writer MSDEWriter has failure state VSS_WS_STABLE with error VSS_E_WRITERERROR_NONRETRYABLE. UrBackup will continue with the backup but the associated data may not be consistent.
2014-03-10 17:05:40(info): Indexing of “PC001” done. 8 filesystem lookups 0 db lookups and 0 db updates
2014-03-10 17:05:40(info): Starting shadowcopy “PC001”.
2014-03-10 17:05:54(info): Stoping shadowcopy “PC001”.
2014-03-10 17:05:56(info): Transferred 8.20883 MB - Average speed: 4.12932 MBit/s
2014-03-10 17:05:57(info): Time taken for backing up client LecicServer: 1m 39s

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Hi, I am having the same error with one of my Windows XP machines…

Level Time Message
Info 18.03.14 01:17 Starting incremental file backup…
Errors 18.03.14 01:19 Writer MSDEWriter has failure state VSS_WS_STABLE with error VSS_E_WRITERERROR_NONRETRYABLE. UrBackup will continue with the backup but the associated data may not be consistent.
Info 18.03.14 01:19 Indexing of “My Documents” done. 4 filesystem lookups 370 db lookups and 3 db updates
Info 18.03.14 01:19 Indexing of “My Documents_0” done. 1 filesystem lookups 4 db lookups and 0 db updates
Info 18.03.14 01:19 Indexing of “My Documents_1” done. 1 filesystem lookups 4 db lookups and 0 db updates
Info 18.03.14 01:19 Indexing of “Automation Premium” done. 6 filesystem lookups 491 db lookups and 5 db updates
Info 18.03.14 03:13 Transferred 8.93999 MB - Average speed: 11 KBit/s
Info 18.03.14 03:13 Time taken for backing up client DRYSERVER: 1h 55m 48s

I have attempted to find any logs for the VSS service but struggling with this (believe i need to change some registery settings or install VSS SDK). Aparantly I can
find out more information my using vssadmin command straight after the problem occurs. I will try this tonight when the machine is not in use. Currently vssadmin shows no issues (but it has been 8 hours since last backup completed) I will do some more tests tonight. here is current vssadmin output showing everything ok…

C:\Documents and Settings\Brad>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.0 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
© Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: ‘MSDEWriter’
Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
Writer Instance Id: {eb9f227a-3f31-4c91-b8b3-be2de7b0291a}
State: [1] Stable

Writer name: ‘WMI Writer’
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {2bb5319f-9160-4f6e-9f39-eca531b87cbe}
State: [1] Stable

Writer name: ‘Microsoft Writer (Service State)’
Writer Id: {e38c2e3c-d4fb-4f4d-9550-fcafda8aae9a}
Writer Instance Id: {ed102f22-c23a-4cd7-80ac-cb1b5ed87b66}
State: [1] Stable

Writer name: ‘Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)’
Writer Id: {f2436e37-09f5-41af-9b2a-4ca2435dbfd5}
Writer Instance Id: {0a30c3ec-5c14-4405-abe9-9c72eadd54ff}
State: [1] Stable

I was initially thinking the VSS service may have failed due to disk errors or low on disk space but I basically ruled these out now.

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Hi,

i have here the same problem… All of my XP Maschines got the VSS Error.

Are there any solutions?

Greetings
Marco

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i have the same error on XP machines any solutions on this yet ?