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Tested Hasleo_Backup_Suite_Free_260507.exe
Works for newly created jobs
but not all
Still didn't work for my previous jobs.
Perhaps size related?
I created a new small job
it worked
added to it
it worked
repeated until it no longer worked (hung)
Now I'm assuming hung because I waited for 4 minutes
maybe I should have left it much longer?
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The clearest indicator that I have found is if "vssadmin list writers" completes then File Backup will work. If it fails then the File Backup will freeze at 0%. Not sure what happens if VSS has a problem after the backup is running, but suspect if it start then it will complete as the Volume Shadow Copy has been created.
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Do we know what the conflict is with? It cannot just be vss, because not everyone has been having this issue.
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Tested the 260508 version. System, Disk/Partition, File backups are all working fine.
(Local security authority protection: on, MS vulnerable driver blocklist: off)
Didn't tested for core isolation features on/off since this issue seems not related to those settings, but can do if needed.
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Has everyone seen this post about fixing vss issues:
Because this is my first post and am not permitted to post an URL. So let me give a google search for it. Use these terms: elevenforum.com macrium reflect vss timeout error
Now look for the 9th post in the "Macrium reflect 8 -VSS timeout" link. I will post the copied text from that link:
The problem seems be resolved after running the script below. It was developed after some detective work with MS Copilot. The analysis of the problem is:
Running the command "vssadmin list writers" should produce a list of about 7 writers, but the process hangs and does not produce anything. This indicates that the COM+ catalog was in a partially corrupted state after the install of KB5083769. Two of my PC's experienced this problem, but not on a third one. Re-registering the servers and rebooting temporarily resolved the issue allowing the vssadmin to run normally, but then running Macrium Reflect 8 triggering the broken COM registrations.
The corruption was subtle enough that Windows didn’t auto‑repair it. A rebuild forced Windows to regenerate the modern COM+ catalog from CBS.
This is the fix script that was run from an elevated command prompt:
cd C:\windows\system32
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
sfc /scannow
regsvr32 /s vss_ps.dll
regsvr32 /s eventcls.dll
regsvr32 /s es.dll
regsvr32 /s swprv.dll
regsvr32 /s vssui.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml6.dll
net stop vss
net stop swprv
net stop eventsystem
net stop COMSysApp
net start COMSysApp
net start eventsystem
net start swprv
net start vss
So far it seems to be working as successive runs of MR8 are fine.
