How to force restart WBADMIN? Command line not responding

Question

Just going through the backups this morning and I've noticed that the backups have failed for days now due to a backup job already running. Upon checking with the wbadmin get status command, the job looks to be stuck at 70%

I've ran the wbadmin stop job command, but it's been sat there for a couple of hours now and short of restarting the server I'm not sure what to do.

Does wbadmin operate under a task or service I can kill and restart? I don't want to restart the whole server just to reset the backups.

Thanks in advance for any advice,

D

Solution

Windows Backup uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service on the source computer to perform the backup. Did you try restarting that service?

Comments

[Dan Watson]

I didn't. I ended up throwing in the towel and restarting the entire server when we were quiet. There is another service called Block Level Backup Engine which is related, but kept falling over when I tried to restart it.