Windows backups fail on shadow copy snapshot errors
Windows backups fail with shadow copy snapshot errors after a Canary update, and the WMIC provider is missing on some systems.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
9 public reports · first reported 29 August 2026 · last reported 31 August 2026
What's going wrong
After updating to a Canary build of Duplicati, several Windows users find that backups log snapshot failures.
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