Can anyone helpt me out?
When attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG) using 2010 Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM), the job fails on the secondary Replica with the following error:
Type: Replica creation
Status: Failed
Description: The VSS application writer or the VSS provider is in a bad state. Either it was already in a bad state or it entered a bad state during the current operation. (ID 30111 Details: VssError:The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup
process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur.(0x800423F4))
In SQL, AlwaysOn is configured as follows:
Availability Mode: Synchronous Commit
Failover Mode: Automatic
Connections in Primary Role: Allow all connections
Readable Secondary: Yes
Backup Preferences:
Perfer Secondary
Priority: 50 (for each node)
Exclude Replica: False (for each node)
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is the member of sysadmin.
In the Windows Appication Log on the SQL server I found those two events:
1. Event ID: 8229 A VSS writer has rejected an event with error 0x800423f4, 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.
Operation:
PrepareForSnapshot Event
Context:
Execution Context: Writer
Writer Class Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Name: SqlServerWriter
Writer Instance Name: SQL Server Code-Named 'Denali' CTP2:SQLWriter
Writer Instance ID: {b4c05d47-35b3-45a6-b7bc-5e3b5516b841}
Command Line: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlwriter.exe"
Process ID: 1508
2. SQLVDI: Loc=SignalAbort. Desc=Client initiates abort. ErrorCode=(0). Process=1508.
Thread=1772. Client. Instance=. VD=Global\{C39CD2EF-83B6-4C10-A68D-7D152690C5B8}
1_SQLVDIMemoryName_0.
In the VSSADMIN query i got this:
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {b4c05d47-35b3-45a6-b7bc-5e3b5516b841}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: Non-retryable error
Thanks in Advance.