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EC2 Consistent AMI Backups Failing with 'Failed to Run Commands: Exit Status 1'
EC2 Consistent AMI Backups Failing with 'Failed to Run Commands: Exit Status 1'
Updated over 2 months ago

Problem description

When an EC2 instance assigned to a backup policy for consistent AMI backups encounters the following error:

Resolution

  1. Make sure Amazon SSM Agent and VSS processes are excluded from Sentinel One, Symantec and SAP Application.

  2. We expect all the VSS writer statuses to be in a stable state, basically we shouldn't be observing any "Waiting for completion" status.

  3. On the server, start the following services

    1. Background Intelligent Transfer Service,

    2. COM+ Event System,

    3. COM+ System Application,

    4. Cryptographic Services

    5. Volume Shadow Copy

    6. Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider

  4. If any anti virus application is installed on the Ec2 instance . We would recommend as a best practice to exclude the following from anti virus:

    1. VSS processes ( vssadmin.exe, vssvc.exe, swprc.dll etc )

    2. Folder "C:\ProgramData\Amazon\SSM\"

    3. Process to be excluded 'amazon-ssm-agent.exe'

  5. If the VSS writer status is still Waiting for completion, we would recommend rebooting the server once.

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