jbsmith

I went to try to enable this function on our SCCM Primary site. Our SQL is set up on a separate server. When I try to run the SMS_SITE_BACKUP I receive the following error (see bolded sections). I have googled and tried various fixes for hours with no luck. The most common suggestions are to check all services on SCCM Primary site and SQL server- all related services on both the primary site and sql server seem to be running/starting/stopping fine. Other suggestions tried - verify SMS writer and SQL writer as existing and functioning and also making sure NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on SQL server has sysadmin rights on SMS_XXX database. Has anyone ran into this problem or would have any more suggestions Thanks! After GatherWriterMetadata SMS Writer status = FAILED_AT_PREPARE_BACKUP. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:17 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Error: VSS_E_WRITERERROR_TIMEOUT. Error Code = 0x80,042,3f2. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:17 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Info: Sending message to start the SQL Backup... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:17 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Starting Prepare for backup. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:17 PM 6312 (0x18A8) The System Provider VSS ID is 0,000,000,000,399,FA8 SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:17 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Added volume containing C:\ to the snapshot set. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:18 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Info: Starting Asynchronous PrepareForBackup... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:18 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Info: Asynchronous PrepareForBackup finished... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:18 PM 6312 (0x18A8) After PrepareForBackup SMS Writer status = STABLE. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:18 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Info: Waiting for SQL to PrepareForBackup. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:18 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Sleeping for 5 seconds... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:18 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Sleeping for 5 seconds... SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:23 PM 6312 (0x18A8) ERROR: SQL Backup task failed. Error message - Error: SQL Writer not found. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:28 PM 6312 (0x18A8) STATMSG: ID=5052 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_SITE_BACKUP" SYS=sccm01 SITE=xxx PID=11968 TID=6312 GMTDATE=Fri Mar 13 03:09:28.878 2015 ISTR0="\\dbxx" ISTR1="CM_xxx;" ISTR2="Error: SQL Writer not found." ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:28 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Error: Sql Server could not prepare for the Backup. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:28 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Aborting the backup process. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:28 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Aborting the SQL backup process. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Current state of SQL backup: [failed]. Aborting it. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8) SMS_SITE_BACKUP failed. Please see previous errors. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8) STATMSG: ID=5060 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_SITE_BACKUP" SYS=sccm01SITE=xxx PID=11968 TID=6312 GMTDATE=Fri Mar 13 03:09:29.130 2015 ISTR0="Error: Sql Server could not prepare for the Backup." ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8) SMS_SITE_BACKUP service is stopping. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8) STATMSG: ID=502 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_SITE_BACKUP" SYS=sccm01 SITE=xxx PID=11968 TID=6312 GMTDATE=Fri Mar 13 03:09:29.151 2015 ISTR0="SMS_SITE_BACKUP" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8) Raised backup task failure alert. SMS_SITE_BACKUP 3/12/2015 10:09:29 PM 6312 (0x18A8)

Ok I re-added the dp to our dp group, and it "re-discovered" all the apps/packages/os images in the SCCMContentLib folder. I then went to the DP and selected all the content to delete and removed all content from the DP. Still the SCCMContentLib hasn't shrunk in size. Is there any way to force it to remove old content before de-commissioning the DP? I see this same question asked multiple times in the search for this site, but never a reply... example: http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8555-deleting-1-distribution-pointneeded-to-edit-all-reference-to-it/?hl=%2Bclean+%2Bdistribution+%2Bpoint -jb

I have searched technet and haven't found an exact fix for the problem I am having - We had our one of our distribution points on the same server as our management point (Primary Site Server). During some large software pushes our management point would bog down so we setup a new distribution point and I removed the distribution point role off of the management point. I forgot to go through the steps of removing content from the dp through the console before removing the distribution point role - now I have 500gb of content I would like to remove to re-claim some disk space on the VM. Would anyone know the steps/files/folders to manually clean up this content? Just don't want to delete the wrong thing and break the MP/Primary Site Server. Thanks -jb