Exchange 2010 - Database issues

Good morning everyone!
I have an exchange database problem. It was first caught when implementing exchange backups with Acronis backup software.
(EXCHANGE 2010 v 14.01.0218.013)
So the backups fail one night and succeed the next. But each time it fails we get 4 errors (Consistency related). Also the database size is growing rapidly. Here are the errors:
Then a couple more:
EVENT ID 9782
Exchange VSS Writer (instance b1bfbf43-9594-4cee-980f-50d84b0ee4eb:76) has completed the backup of database 'xxxxxxxxx' with errors. The backup did not complete successfully, and no log files were truncated for this database.
Then finally:
EVENT ID 2007
Information Store (2136) Shadow copy instance 76 aborted.
For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
EDIT:
SO my DB is not growing because the issue...I had forgotten that we enabled LEGAL HOLD. But my backups fail / succeed / fail / succeed.
Any ideas on this?
Kevin

Hi,
Please use Windows Server backup to backup the Exchange database to check result.
If Windows Server backup works well, I recommend you contact the third party support to confirm this issue.
If the issue persists, please check whether your database is dirty shutdown. If it's dirty, please bring to clean state and backup agian to check result.
Best regards,
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

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