Retry on failed VSS creation?

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#1

2020-04-19 01:00:04.697 INFO VSS_CREATE Creating a shadow copy for C:
2020-04-19 01:00:04.854 ERROR VSS_START Shadow copy creation failed: StartSnapshotSet returned 80042316
Shadow copy creation failed: StartSnapshotSet returned 80042316

I am randomly getting failed VSS snapshots. According to this thread it seems like it’s due to another process creating a VSS snapshot (not sure which process is doing that though). It would be nice if there’s a way to re-try after few seconds instead of just failing and waiting for the next schedule.

#2

I had the same problem, I solved it by increasing the time out with this command in options:
-vss -vss-timeout 400

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#3

I’ll give it a try. Thanks :slight_smile: