This post is to help you if you are suffering from the following issue:
A VSS writer has rejected an event with error. The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur. Changes that the writer made to the writer components while handling the event will not be available to the requester. Check the event log for related events from the application hosting the VSS writer.
Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
- You have a server that is running any version of Microsoft SQL Server.
- This SQL Server instance hosts databases that have the AUTO-CLOSE option set.
- You run a non-component VSS backup (for example, by using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Agent) against volumes of this server that is hosting SQL Server database files.
In this situation, you notice that the VSS backup fails and triggers the following entry in the Application log.
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