Dear Community,
Recently, I encountered an issue while running a scheduled backup job using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. The backup failed with the error "Failed to create VSS snapshot."
Successfully resolved the issue, and I’d like to share the steps I took in case they help.
Solution That Worked:
Simply by restarting the VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) service, which might have become unstable or stuck.
Here’s what I did:
Opened an Command Prompt (Run as Administrator)
Ran the following commands:
- net stop vss
- net start vss
You can also restart these services in services.msc:
- Volume Shadow Copy
- Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider
That’s it! After this, I re-ran the backup job and it completed successfully without any errors.
As a Veeam Community member, I truly appreciate the robustness of Veeam tools this issue highlighted the importance of VSS for reliable backups, and I hope this article helps others facing the same error; feel free to reply or DM me if you need further help happy to assist!
