Today the MOM agent reported backup failure on one of my servers:-
Description:
BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE Assyst_Live. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.
However on the server all looked fine, the job ran successfully and all the files looked fine. The only thing was that an error was present in the error log
2007-11-14 01:08:26.410 Error: 3201, Severity: 16, State: 7.
2007-11-14 01:08:26.410 Cannot open backup device 'Assyst_Live_00__566104b7_042b_4ea7_b756_6b38298e336f_'. Operating system error 0x80070005(error not found).
The solution was to
- Stop the Windows Management Instrumentation service.
- Move to C:\Windows\System32\WBEM and delete the Repository Folder.
- Start the Windows Management Instrumentation service.
After that the backups ran without error.