VSS Backups failing with error message Failed to create VSS snapshot
Applies to
- Ontap 9.x
- FAS Systems
Issue
- VSS backups are failing when snapshot creation takes more than 10 seconds
- VSS will freeze IO operations in order to take a consistent snapshot
- In EMS logs the following errors are shown:
Activity [Creating Backup] failed with error: Failed to create VSS snapshot [Error Code: -2147212524] [VSS_E_HOLD_WRITES_TIMEOUT] [Error Code: -2147212524] [VSS_E_HOLD_WRITES_TIMEOUT]