what is vmname-vss_manifestss9.zip?

Never seen this before in the home directory of my VMs.  Related to the VSS snapshot created for the VADP backup that is having issues?

It's 32K in size, but other than that all I know is nothing on Google search, nothing on VMware.com or support.emc.com searches either.

No lock on the file, so I downloaded it and had a look:

So, looking inside, this manifest is to do with the VSS writer and the VADP backup.  Probably only left this file behind 'cause of problems with the backup.  Lots of DLLs listed in the writer xlm file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<WRITER_METADATA version="1.1" xmlns="x-schema:#VssWriterMetadataInfo"><IDENTIFICATION dataSource="OTHER" usage="BOOTABLE_SYSTEM_STATE" friendlyName="System Writer" instanceId="b4973554-e918-490d-a887-46fc0a85c5a5" writerId="e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220"/><RESTORE_METHOD rebootRequired="yes" writerRestore="never" method="REPLACE_AT_REBOOT"/>-<BACKUP_LOCATIONS>-<FILE_GROUP componentFlags="0" selectableForRestore="no" selectable="no" notifyOnBackupComplete="no" restoreMetadata="no" caption="System Files" componentName="System Files"><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" recursive="yes" filespec="*" path="C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" recursive="yes" filespec="*" path="C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" recursive="yes" filespec="*" path="C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" recursive="yes" filespec="*" path="C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="acgenral.dll" path="c:\windows\apppatch"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="aclayers.dll" path="c:\windows\apppatch"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="acres.dll" path="c:\windows\apppatch"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="acspecfc.dll" path="c:\windows\apppatch"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="acxtrnal.dll" path="c:\windows\apppatch"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="admwprox.dll" path="c:\windows\system32"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="admwprox.dll" path="c:\windows\syswow64"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="adsiis.dll" path="c:\windows\system32\inetsrv"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="adsiis.dll" path="c:\windows\syswow64\inetsrv"/><FILE_LIST filespecBackupType="3855" filespec="ahui.exe"

the backup.xml file isn't so much windoze gobeldy gook:

-<WRITER_COMPONENTS writerId="a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0" instanceId="1c8717c4-c53e-4aac-8738-b510483836f8"><COMPONENT backupSucceeded="yes" componentType="filegroup" componentName="WMI"/></WRITER_COMPONENTS>

So, the backup reports as suceeded, but these files weren't cleaned up.

KC