{"id":154,"date":"2013-05-30T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.wordpress.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T07:14:59","slug":"exchange-2010-backups-fail-with-replica-writer-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2010 Backups fail with Replica Writer Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a backup fail this week with an error stating something to the lines of Exchange Writer is in a failed state.<\/p>\n

After some digging around I found that the Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer was in a failed state. To check the writers do the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the command prompt on the Exchange server where the backup is failing. (In my case the server with the passive copies)<\/li>\n
  2. In the command prompt type: vssadmin list writers<\/strong> and hit enter.<\/li>\n
  3. You will now see a list of all the writers with their current state.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The picture below shows the writer in the failed state.<\/p>\n

    \"writer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    To resolve this issue I had to restart the Exchange Replication Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I then re-ran vssadmin list writers in the command prompt and it showed its state as stable and the backups went through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We had a backup fail this week with an error stating something to the lines of Exchange Writer is in a failed state. After some digging around I found that the Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer was in a failed state. To check the writers do the following: Open the command prompt on the Exchange server where the backup is failing. (In my case the server with the passive copies) In the command prompt type: vssadmin list writers and hit enter. You will now see a list of all the writers with their current state. The picture below shows the writer in the failed state. To resolve this issue I had to restart the Exchange Replication Service I then re-ran vssadmin list writers in the command prompt and it showed its state as stable and the backups went through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7],"tags":[62,89,90],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange-2010","category-microsoft-exchange","tag-exchange-2010-passive-database-backup-fails","tag-microsoft-exchange-replica-writer-failed","tag-microsoft-exchange-replica-writer-showing-retryable-error"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}