VSS and SPP Error during Imaging

[silent54]

First off, I do have a backup image. I'm using a third party program now for back but is tends to screw with my partition sizing. So would like to resolve this problem.

Through Windows 7, I went to create a image of my system and received a backup failed error.

"A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for more information. (0x807800A1)"

I've check and made sure that both the Windows Backup and Volume Shadow are started and set to manual within services.

There are errors listed in the event viewer.

Under Source "Backup".

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Backup

[ Guid] {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}

EventID 521

Version 0

Level 2

Task 0

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2011-08-05T17:18:31.611384700Z

EventRecordID 43456

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4352

[ ThreadID] 5344

Channel Application

Computer Webb1

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-18

- EventData

BackupTime 2011-08-05T17:18:29.008000000Z

ErrorCode 2155348129

ErrorMessage %%2155348129


Under Source "SPP".

- System

- Provider

[ Name] SPP

- EventID 16387

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2011-08-05T17:18:31.000000000Z

EventRecordID 43455

Channel Application

Computer Webb1

Security
- EventData

ASR Writer

The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)

01000000C70F0000B60F00000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000
Binary data:

In Words
0000: 00000001 00000FC7 00000FB6 00000000
0008: C5B7BE42 19C6CA11 03929CE5 00000000
0010: 00000000

In Bytes
0000: 01 00 00 00 C7 0F 00 00 ....Ç...
0008: B6 0F 00 00 00 00 00 00 ¶.......
0010: 42 BE B7 C5 11 CA C6 19 B¾·Å.ÊÆ.
0018: E5 9C 92 03 00 00 00 00 園.....
0020: 00 00 00 00 ....



Under Source "VSS". (2 different events)

- System

- Provider

[ Name] VSS

- EventID 12290

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 3

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2011-08-05T17:18:31.000000000Z

EventRecordID 43454

Channel Application

Computer Webb1

Security
- EventData

ASR writer Error 0x80070057

0x00000000, The operation completed successfully.

Operation: PrepareForBackup event Context: Execution Context: ASR Writer Execution Context: Writer Writer Class Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4} Writer Name: ASR Writer Writer Instance ID: {36cf83a7-f3ae-40eb-ae48-fac0a84b50a6} Error-specific details: ASR Writer: The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)

2D20436F64653A20575254415352574330303030303530372D2043616C6C3A20575254415352574330303030303632372D205049443A202030303030313439322D205449443A202030303030363231362D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C76737376632E6578652020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820
Binary data:

In Words
0000: 6F43202D 203A6564 41545257 43575253
0008: 30303030 37303530 6143202D 203A6C6C
0010: 41545257 43575253 30303030 37323630
0018: 4950202D 20203A44 30303030 32393431
0020: 4954202D 20203A44 30303030 36313236
0028: 4D43202D 20203A44 575C3A43 6F646E69
0030: 735C7377 65747379 5C32336D 76737376
0038: 78652E63 20202065 7355202D 203A7265
0040: 656D614E 544E203A 54554120 49524F48
0048: 535C5954 45545359 53202C4D 533A4449
0050: 352D312D 2038312D

In Bytes
0000: 2D 20 43 6F 64 65 3A 20 - Code:
0008: 57 52 54 41 53 52 57 43 WRTASRWC
0010: 30 30 30 30 30 35 30 37 00000507
0018: 2D 20 43 61 6C 6C 3A 20 - Call:
0020: 57 52 54 41 53 52 57 43 WRTASRWC
0028: 30 30 30 30 30 36 32 37 00000627
0030: 2D 20 50 49 44 3A 20 20 - PID:
0038: 30 30 30 30 31 34 39 32 00001492
0040: 2D 20 54 49 44 3A 20 20 - TID:
0048: 30 30 30 30 36 32 31 36 00006216
0050: 2D 20 43 4D 44 3A 20 20 - CMD:
0058: 43 3A 5C 57 69 6E 64 6F C:\Windo
0060: 77 73 5C 73 79 73 74 65 ws\syste
0068: 6D 33 32 5C 76 73 73 76 m32\vssv
0070: 63 2E 65 78 65 20 20 20 c.exe
0078: 2D 20 55 73 65 72 3A 20 - User:
0080: 4E 61 6D 65 3A 20 4E 54 Name: NT
0088: 20 41 55 54 48 4F 52 49 AUTHORI
0090: 54 59 5C 53 59 53 54 45 TY\SYSTE
0098: 4D 2C 20 53 49 44 3A 53 M, SID:S
00a0: 2D 31 2D 35 2D 31 38 20 -1-5-18



- System

- Provider

[ Name] VSS

- EventID 8193

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2011-08-05T17:18:29.000000000Z

EventRecordID 43452

Channel Application

Computer Webb1

Security
- EventData

IVssAsrWriterBackup::GetDiskComponents

0x80070057, The parameter is incorrect.

Operation: OnIdentify event Gathering Writer Data Context: Execution Context: ASR Writer Writer Class Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4} Writer Name: ASR Writer Writer Instance ID: {36cf83a7-f3ae-40eb-ae48-fac0a84b50a6}

2D20436F64653A20575254415352574330303030303234332D2043616C6C3A20575254415352574330303030303138332D205049443A202030303030313439322D205449443A202030303030353139362D20434D443A2020433A5C57696E646F77735C73797374656D33325C76737376632E6578652020202D20557365723A204E616D653A204E5420415554484F524954595C53595354454D2C205349443A532D312D352D313820
Binary data:

In Words
0000: 6F43202D 203A6564 41545257 43575253
0008: 30303030 33343230 6143202D 203A6C6C
0010: 41545257 43575253 30303030 33383130
0018: 4950202D 20203A44 30303030 32393431
0020: 4954202D 20203A44 30303030 36393135
0028: 4D43202D 20203A44 575C3A43 6F646E69
0030: 735C7377 65747379 5C32336D 76737376
0038: 78652E63 20202065 7355202D 203A7265
0040: 656D614E 544E203A 54554120 49524F48
0048: 535C5954 45545359 53202C4D 533A4449
0050: 352D312D 2038312D

In Bytes
0000: 2D 20 43 6F 64 65 3A 20 - Code:
0008: 57 52 54 41 53 52 57 43 WRTASRWC
0010: 30 30 30 30 30 32 34 33 00000243
0018: 2D 20 43 61 6C 6C 3A 20 - Call:
0020: 57 52 54 41 53 52 57 43 WRTASRWC
0028: 30 30 30 30 30 31 38 33 00000183
0030: 2D 20 50 49 44 3A 20 20 - PID:
0038: 30 30 30 30 31 34 39 32 00001492
0040: 2D 20 54 49 44 3A 20 20 - TID:
0048: 30 30 30 30 35 31 39 36 00005196
0050: 2D 20 43 4D 44 3A 20 20 - CMD:
0058: 43 3A 5C 57 69 6E 64 6F C:\Windo
0060: 77 73 5C 73 79 73 74 65 ws\syste
0068: 6D 33 32 5C 76 73 73 76 m32\vssv
0070: 63 2E 65 78 65 20 20 20 c.exe
0078: 2D 20 55 73 65 72 3A 20 - User:
0080: 4E 61 6D 65 3A 20 4E 54 Name: NT
0088: 20 41 55 54 48 4F 52 49 AUTHORI
0090: 54 59 5C 53 59 53 54 45 TY\SYSTE
0098: 4D 2C 20 53 49 44 3A 53 M, SID:S
00a0: 2D 31 2D 35 2D 31 38 20 -1-5-18

 

[mjf]

Make sure (under services.msc) volume shadows services are set to manual.
If you have a separate system reserved partition it needs to have 50MB free for shadow copy services. You will find the free/used space in Disk Management.

A well regarded 3rd Party imaging software (free and paid version) is Macrium Reflect. It should not mess with your partition sizing. It may leave some unallocated if re-imaging back into a larger partition.

 

[silent54]

Volume shadow is set to manual and there is plenty of disk space on all partitions to include the system reserve partition that's created during installation.

I don't mind a third party solution but I hate it when something that should work doesn't. The third party software I'm using now, works good but any partition under 1.5GB gets changed to 1.5GB. No big deal if you don't have any that small but with Win7 there is one (System Reserve) and there's a lose on about 1.4GB of disk space.

 

[mjf]

I don't mind a third party solution but I hate it when something that should work doesn't. The third party software I'm using now, works good but any partition under 1.5GB gets changed to 1.5GB. No big deal if you don't have any that small but with Win7 there is one (System Reserve) and there's a lose on about 1.4GB of disk space.

Given there are good third party options the pragmatic solution is to just use them. Windows imaging works for me (so far) but other experienced members don't use it for various reasons.

You don't mention what you are using with this 1.5GB constraint (weird!).
The two free ones that seem to have most support here are Macrium Reflect and Paragon. If you use WD or Seagate HDDs they both have a free version of Acronis. You will be well served with this selection.

 

[silent54]

I used Windows backup on my old system but in order to bring the image to my new system I had to use a universal imaging software because of unlike system components. That's what I'm using now. It's called EASEUS Todo Backup. During the image install back on the new system, you allows you to use a slider to adjust the partitions. The smallest I could get the system reserve was 1.5GB.

I"ll look at the ones you listed. I won't be moving between systems for a while since building my Sandy Bridge system. Thanks for the help.