Cove Data Protection Troubleshooting
Cove: data source 'Hyper-V (VSS)' is not ready for backup: VSS writer "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" is missing. Please ensure that "Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management" service has enough rights.
Last Modified
Thu Sep 13 20:32 GMT 2018
Description
- Data source 'Hyper-V (VSS)' is not ready for backup: VSS writer "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" is missing. Please ensure that "Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management" service has enough rights.
Environment
- Cove Data Protection (Cove)
- Backup and Recovery
Solution
- Hyper-V VSS writer is not started, or Backup Manager does not have permissions to access
- Run this command in elevated command prompt:
- vssadmin list writers
- Check list for Hyper-V VSS writer
- If writer is not present, restart services in services.msc (in order given):
- Backup Service Controller
- Volume Shadow Copy
- Cryptographic Services
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management
- If writer is present, but datasource does not show in Backup Manager:
- Open services.msc
- Right-click Backup Service Controller > Properties
- Go to Log On tab > select This account
- Enter administrator credentials
- Select OK
- Restart services from step #3