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BA8013: A timeout occurred while collecting storage information for Cyber Black Box™

Error code Product Applies to
BA8013 BackupAssist ER BackupAssist ER v1 and later.

Description

This occurs when a timeout occurs specifically when collecting storage related forensics information. A common reason for this issue is difficulty running WMI (instrumentation) queries for the storage configuration and status.

Resolution

Perform a chkdsk to see if there are any disk errors on your system, and otherwise. please contact support. They may suggest suppressing the collection of certain forensics via a registry value, if there’s no other way to avoid the timeout.

Last updated Created Further assistance
21st March 2022 21st March 2022 BackupAssist ER Support page