In a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) cluster environment, you run a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup on a passive node. In this situation, the backup fail. Additionally, the following event is logged in the Application log:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Event ID: 2034
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Replication Service VSS writer (instance <GUID>) failed with error code FFFFFFFC when processing the backup completion event.
When this issue occurs, the third-party backup application may report an error message that resembles the following:
0xe000037b - Using the job settings, xxxx attempted to back up the passive copy of the Exchange database. However, the passive copy was not available after the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot was performed. Try to run the job again.