DPM Server System State and Bare MEtal using SqlServerWriter

HI All,
Having issuing with bare metal backups of a DPM server and was hoping to get some help.
I have a DPM 2010 Server running on server 2008 r2. SQL databases are hosted locally on a non system drive (e)
When I run Windows Server Backup locally on the box to do a bare metal backup (it selects c and d drives along with system state) the backup fails.
vssadmin lsit writers shows the following after the backup fails;
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {9a1fdd12-d702-4ffc-914d-4361259cc55f}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: Inconsistent shadow copy
Application log shows this;
The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎09T08:30:54.453000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up
failed with following error code '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
The backup log shows exactly the same error as above.
When I stop the SQL Server VSS Writer service and run the backup it runs just fine, however then my database backup on this server fails.
The C drive partition is marked as active.
Any ideas as to why bare metal backup is using the SQL writer and failing. Is there any way to specify what writer to use?
Thank in advance.

Any ideas as to why bare metal backup is using the SQL writer and failing. Is there any way to specify what writer to use?
You better should ask this the support of the software vendor of "bare metal backup"
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