• As EdVassie said, VSS writer itself is not to blame. This is a known issue with certain backup utilities that use the VSS Writer to create backups. This includes Data Protection Manager. So you probably have something running its own backups of the database causing this issue. Stopping VSS Writer is only going to make that process fail. So you should find out what that process is and stop that or stop doing native backups.


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