Failed to enumerate Microsoft SQL Server databases: Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer not found - cannot backup SQL databases

[Abner_Smith]

I’m having this problem. Failed to enumerate Microsoft SQL Server databases: Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer not found - cannot backup SQL databases. Can anybody help me?

[drwtsn32]

Here is an older thread on the forum:

SOLVED! Failed to enumerate Microsoft SQL Server databases: Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer not found - cannot backup SQL databases

Greetings and thank you for this nice software! I want to share my successfull solution, similar to some others already reported, to the error message in the title (Failed to enumerate Microsoft SQL Server databases: Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer not found - cannot backup SQL databases). This error appeared whenever I wanted to create a new backup profile. I could click ok, it went away and the job ran without problems but I suspect I could not have used it to backup SQL using VSS. I had D…