{"id":2513,"date":"2013-11-23T18:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2013-11-23T18:29:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:29:57","slug":"how-to-check-the-state-of-vss-writers-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"How to check the state of VSS writers in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Open a cmd.exe session as an Administrator-level user<\/li>\n
  2. run the following command: vssadmin list writers<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. check the output for your desired VSS writer, here’s an example of a healthy Exchange VSS writer:\n

    Writer name: ‘Microsoft Exchange Writer’
    \nWriter Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
    \nWriter Instance Id: {3d54c40b-2bd3-4240-807a-2d02e344f706}
    \nState: [1] Stable<\/span>
    \nLast error: No error<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Open a cmd.exe session as an Administrator-level user run the following command: vssadmin list writers check the output for your desired VSS writer, here’s an example of a healthy Exchange VSS writer: Writer name: ‘Microsoft Exchange Writer’ Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7} … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/support.cybersecure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}