http://blog.acarter.co.uk/2012/02/server-2008-vss-cannot-remove-snapshot/ I tried to use vssadmin by doing a ‘vssadmin list shadows‘ which sure enough showed me the copy, but when trying to delete it with the ‘vssadmin delete shadows /for=g:‘ , I was returned the error: Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context. Try removing them with the backup application which created them. The […]
Configuration Host: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64) Guests: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64) Problem/Symptoms Windows Server Backup fails when guests are active: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Backup Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup Date: 5/20/2012 12:40:59 Event ID: 9 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: host.local-domain.com Description: The backup operation that started at ‘2012-05-20T16:38:15.428000000Z’ has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy […]