18210

Product Name

Event ID

18210

Event Source

MSSQLSERVER

Component

SQLEngine

Symbolic Name

STRMIO_IOFAILED

Message Text

%s: %s failure on backup device ‘%s’. Operating system error %s.

When a

Virtual device interface (VDI) backup

is terminated in SQL Server, you’ll see SQL Server

error 18210 in the SQL Server Error Log. VDI may be invoked from a third party application or

from

SQLWriter. An example:

Output

It’s common to see SQL Server Error 18210 with nested

OS error 995. The most common

reason for OS error 995 is that the VDI application has aborted the backup process. Both errors

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2022-05-29 15:55:42.89 Backup Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2022-05-29 15:55:42.89 Backup BackupIoRequest::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device '{AA4B3232-1881-4F09-9DBA-0983D553BF46}2'. Operating system error
995(The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.).
2022-05-29 15:55:42.91 Backup Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2022-05-29 15:55:42.91 Backup BackupIoRequest::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device '{AA4B3232-1881-4F09-9DBA-0983D553BF46}4'. Operating system error
995(The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.).
2022-05-29 15:55:42.91 Backup Error: 3041, Severity: 16, State: 1.