VSS giving event id 8224 but no new shadow copies

Question

_{Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:43 AM}

Just as the title says, I have a server giving event ID 8224 (VSS Service shutting down due to idle timeout), Basically... I can click "create now" and everything works just fine. What I cannot do, is allow the task to fire off on its own. I've been staring at the event log and various posts for a couple hours now. 

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_{Monday, December 29, 2014 3:47 PM ✅Answered}

register VSS dlls again...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sdoakes/archive/2006/02/03/418722.aspx

Best,

Howtodo

_{Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:53 PM}

Hi,

Would you please let me know edition information of the server where this event id 8224 logged?

à Basically... I can click "create now" and everything works just fine.

Did you find that any relevant issue occurred on the server? Or just all work fine? Just a confirmation, thanks for your understanding. For Event ID 8224, this seems to be a normal condition. No further action is required. For more details, please refer to following article and check if can help you.

Event ID 8224 — Volume Shadow Copy Service Operations

If any update, please feel free to let me know.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Justin Gu

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_{Wednesday, December 17, 2014 6:30 PM}

So the 8224 event gets written to the event log on schedule (which makes it appear it's working just fine), but no shadow copies are made. (Right click on drive, properties, shadow copies) If I click create now, a shadow copy is made.

A wise man is a fool, with a good memory.

_{Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:24 PM}

OS Version is SBS 2011

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_{Friday, December 19, 2014 6:35 AM}

Any updates?

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_{Friday, December 19, 2014 4:54 PM}

any other events logged?

Best,

Howtodo

_{Monday, December 22, 2014 12:42 AM}

Nothing of merit.

A wise man is a fool, with a good memory.