The log file shows it has found all the VM's and startes on the first one:
[0;36mThe backup room has been limited to 300 gb.[0m
Getting list of all VMs...
6 M3 System Manager [Mill3Datastore] M3 System Manager/M3 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
7 M3 LogiCAD PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 LogiCAD PC/M3 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
8 M3 Engineers PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Engineers PC/M3 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
9 M3 Operator PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Operator PC/M3 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
VMs to backup:
6 M3 System Manager [Mill3Datastore] M3 System Manager/M3 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
7 M3 LogiCAD PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 LogiCAD PC/M3 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
8 M3 Engineers PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Engineers PC/M3 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
9 M3 Operator PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Operator PC/M3 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
Needed room: 127 Gb.
Available room: 146 Gb. [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 System Manager], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 LogiCAD PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/577fc1de-1880ce2f-7bdc-3417ebf154f7/M3 LogiCAD PC/M3 LogiCAD PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 10% done.
..... [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 Engineers PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 Operator PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
[0;32mPID file deleted[0m
[0;32mBackup finished[0m
But as you can see, it never backed up the other VM's - it only managed one. The other VM's have had the .vmsd and the .vmx files backed up, but the vmdk files are missing.
Do you think it has something to do with the -backup-room parameter?
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Using the VSphere client, I have no snapshots of any VM.
There are no independant disks. All disks are assigned to a VM.
Running the cat command as you suggested gives the expected list of the disks in each VM.
An automatic backup has recently started. here is the output:
XSIBackup PID: 863596
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:00:02 +0000
[0;32mFound --backup-point at /vmfs/volumes/NetDatastore/M4[0m
[0;36mThe e-mail report will not be sent becouse of the followig reasons:[0m
[0;36mThe --mail-from string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --mail-to string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-srv string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-port string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-usr string has not been set, you need --smtp-usr if --smtp-auth is other than -none-[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-pwd string has not been set, you need --smtp-pwd if --smtp-auth is other than -none-[0m
[0;36mThe backup room has been limited to 300 gb.[0m
Getting list of all VMs...
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
VMs to backup:
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
Needed room: 175 Gb.
Available room: 232 Gb. [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 LogiCAD PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 99% done.
Clone: 100% done. [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 System Manager], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 Operator PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m [0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 Engineers PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmdk'...
As you can see, two VM's were skipped. All VM's are Windows 10. All have the latest VMWare tools. The backup appears to have left one VM (M4 Operator PC) in a state where it's using 100% CPU. Before the backup, there was no user logged on, but the VM was running. I can't log on to it now, so I'll have to reset it.
It's quite odd, as we have this working fine on another server, but the VM's are a lot smaller on that one. The problem above appears on three other servers. They all have the same number and type of VM's, and the backup script is identical, apart from the folder on the remote NFS server that they back up to. They don't all back up at once - the backups are staggered by a day, and there is only one each week. None of the VM's are busy - they are mostly idling.
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XSIBackup PID: 994573
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:38:49 +0000
Found --backup-point at /vmfs/volumes/NetDatastore/M4
The e-mail report will not be sent becouse of the followig reasons:
The --mail-from string has not been set
The --mail-to string has not been set
The --smtp-srv string has not been set
The --smtp-port string has not been set
The --smtp-usr string has not been set, you need --smtp-usr if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
The --smtp-pwd string has not been set, you need --smtp-pwd if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
The backup room has been limited to 300 gb.
Getting list of all VMs...
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
VMs to backup:
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
Needed room: 175 Gb.
Available room: 203 Gb.
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 LogiCAD PC], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 System Manager], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager1.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 Operator PC], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 Engineers PC], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 11% done.
As you can see, the VM M4 Operator PC was not backed up. I looked at the system event log on this machine, and there was an error:
"Event 8, Volsnap. The flush and hold writes operation on colume C: timed out waiting for a release write command"
Around a minute later in the application log, "The VSS service is shutting down due to an idle timeout".
So it would appear that the VSS service is being told to create a snapshot, but for some reason the command to release it is not being given, so it fails and times out. I'm not sure why this would be. it's certainly not because the VM is busy. It's running at about 5% utilisation, and no disk writes. The whole server is similarly loaded.
I hope this gives a few more clues.
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Windows VSS does not seem to work well in every situation. There are a number of workarounds that you can read about here. Apart from that, we will offer the chance to disable quiescing from the argument list in future versions.
Regards
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That Windows quiescing feature fails more often than it should. Probably the presence of third party software (non-Microsoft) might have something to do.
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Well I have done that thing you should never do, which is to change several things at once. I have started the Windows Virtual Disk service and set it to auto start, changed the networking of my server so that the management interface is using a separate NIC so that the NFS traffic is isolated from the VM traffic, and updated to the latest version of xsibackup. Yesterday I manually started backups on all the servers and none of them failed. I'll set off a few more today just in case, but it's looking promising.
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Well no. As default it's set to manual startup. And I did several succesfull backups with the service off, but it does appear to have made a significant difference.
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I have Xsibackup running, but I am finding that it is only partially backing up some VM's. Here is my xsibackup-cron entry:
/vmfs/volumes/NetDatastore/M3/xsibackup --time="Sun 18:00" --backup-point=/vmfs/volumes/NetDatastore/M3 --backup-type=running --backup-room=300 --date-dir=yes
The log file shows it has found all the VM's and startes on the first one:
[0;36mThe backup room has been limited to 300 gb.[0m
Getting list of all VMs...
6 M3 System Manager [Mill3Datastore] M3 System Manager/M3 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
7 M3 LogiCAD PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 LogiCAD PC/M3 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
8 M3 Engineers PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Engineers PC/M3 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
9 M3 Operator PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Operator PC/M3 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
VMs to backup:
6 M3 System Manager [Mill3Datastore] M3 System Manager/M3 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
7 M3 LogiCAD PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 LogiCAD PC/M3 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
8 M3 Engineers PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Engineers PC/M3 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
9 M3 Operator PC [Mill3Datastore] M3 Operator PC/M3 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
Needed room: 127 Gb.
Available room: 146 Gb.
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 System Manager], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 LogiCAD PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/577fc1de-1880ce2f-7bdc-3417ebf154f7/M3 LogiCAD PC/M3 LogiCAD PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 10% done.
.....
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 Engineers PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M3 Operator PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
[0;32mPID file deleted[0m
[0;32mBackup finished[0m
But as you can see, it never backed up the other VM's - it only managed one. The other VM's have had the .vmsd and the .vmx files backed up, but the vmdk files are missing.
Do you think it has something to do with the -backup-room parameter?
It doesn't look like the backup room parameter is responsible. Execute this check list:
Last edit: 33HOPS 2016-09-05
And also please offer some more details so that we can help you: XSIBackup-Free version, ESXi version, output errors, etc...
Using the VSphere client, I have no snapshots of any VM.
There are no independant disks. All disks are assigned to a VM.
Running the cat command as you suggested gives the expected list of the disks in each VM.
An automatic backup has recently started. here is the output:
XSIBackup PID: 863596
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:00:02 +0000
[0;32mFound --backup-point at /vmfs/volumes/NetDatastore/M4[0m
[0;36mThe e-mail report will not be sent becouse of the followig reasons:[0m
[0;36mThe --mail-from string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --mail-to string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-srv string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-port string has not been set[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-usr string has not been set, you need --smtp-usr if --smtp-auth is other than -none-[0m
[0;36mThe --smtp-pwd string has not been set, you need --smtp-pwd if --smtp-auth is other than -none-[0m
[0;36mThe backup room has been limited to 300 gb.[0m
Getting list of all VMs...
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
VMs to backup:
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
Needed room: 175 Gb.
Available room: 232 Gb.
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 LogiCAD PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 10% done.
.......etc etc
Clone: 11% done.
Clone: 12% done.
Clone: 13% done.
Clone: 99% done.
Clone: 100% done.
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 System Manager], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 Operator PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
[0;36mHot backup selected for VM: [M4 Engineers PC], will not be switched off[0m
[0;32mVMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced[0m
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 9% done.
Clone: 10% done.
Clone: 11% done.
Clone: 12% done.
Clone: 13% done.
Clone: 14% done.
Clone: 15% done.
Clone: 16% done.
Clone: 17% done.
As you can see, two VM's were skipped. All VM's are Windows 10. All have the latest VMWare tools. The backup appears to have left one VM (M4 Operator PC) in a state where it's using 100% CPU. Before the backup, there was no user logged on, but the VM was running. I can't log on to it now, so I'll have to reset it.
It's quite odd, as we have this working fine on another server, but the VM's are a lot smaller on that one. The problem above appears on three other servers. They all have the same number and type of VM's, and the backup script is identical, apart from the folder on the remote NFS server that they back up to. They don't all back up at once - the backups are staggered by a day, and there is only one each week. None of the VM's are busy - they are mostly idling.
A bit more information. I have kicked off a backup from the command line using putty. Here is the output:
[root@M4HYPER:/vmfs/volumes/b4472de3-b4d8f8b1/M4] ./xsibackup --backup-point=/vm
fs/volumes/NetDatastore/M4 --backup-type=running --backup-room=300 --date-dir=ye
s
© XSIBACKUP-FREE 5.1.5 backup for © VMWARE ESXi Hypervisor by 33hops.com
XSIBackup PID: 994573
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:38:49 +0000
Found --backup-point at /vmfs/volumes/NetDatastore/M4
The e-mail report will not be sent becouse of the followig reasons:
The --mail-from string has not been set
The --mail-to string has not been set
The --smtp-srv string has not been set
The --smtp-port string has not been set
The --smtp-usr string has not been set, you need --smtp-usr if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
The --smtp-pwd string has not been set, you need --smtp-pwd if --smtp-auth is other than -none-
The backup room has been limited to 300 gb.
Getting list of all VMs...
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
VMs to backup:
1 M4 LogiCAD PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmx win2000ProGuest vmx-07 VNC Port 5901
2 M4 System Manager [Mill4Datastore] M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC port 5903
3 M4 Operator PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Operator PC/M4 Operator PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5902
4 M4 Engineers PC [Mill4Datastore] M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmx windows9Guest vmx-11 VNC Port 5900
Needed room: 175 Gb.
Available room: 203 Gb.
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 LogiCAD PC], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 LogiCAD PC/M4 LogiCAD PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 System Manager], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager1.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 System Manager/M4 System Manager.vmdk'...
Clone: 100% done.
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 Operator PC], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Hot backup selected for VM: [M4 Engineers PC], will not be switched off
VMWare Tools detected, the system will be quiesced
Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned
Cloning disk '/vmfs/volumes/578909e6-fb0ad9aa-3c8e-3417ebf155b3/M4 Engineers PC/M4 Engineers PC.vmdk'...
Clone: 11% done.
As you can see, the VM M4 Operator PC was not backed up. I looked at the system event log on this machine, and there was an error:
"Event 8, Volsnap. The flush and hold writes operation on colume C: timed out waiting for a release write command"
Around a minute later in the application log, "The VSS service is shutting down due to an idle timeout".
So it would appear that the VSS service is being told to create a snapshot, but for some reason the command to release it is not being given, so it fails and times out. I'm not sure why this would be. it's certainly not because the VM is busy. It's running at about 5% utilisation, and no disk writes. The whole server is similarly loaded.
I hope this gives a few more clues.
First of all update to XSIBACKUP-FREE 6.0.7, download a key or send a Contact Form to have it sent.
https://33hops.com/formulario-de-contacto.asp
Once you have updated, you just have to overwite the xsibackup file, read this related posts, they will shed some light on the matter.
https://33hops.com/xsibackup-most-common-issues.html
Windows VSS does not seem to work well in every situation. There are a number of workarounds that you can read about here. Apart from that, we will offer the chance to disable quiescing from the argument list in future versions.
Regards
Thanks for the reply. I'll install the latest version and try again. If that doesn't work, then I'll disable quiescing.
That Windows quiescing feature fails more often than it should. Probably the presence of third party software (non-Microsoft) might have something to do.
Well I have done that thing you should never do, which is to change several things at once. I have started the Windows Virtual Disk service and set it to auto start, changed the networking of my server so that the management interface is using a separate NIC so that the NFS traffic is isolated from the VM traffic, and updated to the latest version of xsibackup. Yesterday I manually started backups on all the servers and none of them failed. I'll set off a few more today just in case, but it's looking promising.
The "Windows Virtual Disk" service being turned off explains everything by itself. I took for granted you had it switched on.
Well no. As default it's set to manual startup. And I did several succesfull backups with the service off, but it does appear to have made a significant difference.