Third-party backup software
Hello, I have just read that you can restore Windows 2008 to a different hardware, like Windows 7. I was wondering: Is there the need of third-party software anymore?. I mean, you just backup the...
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Backup error 0x80780021
Hi, this post is consequence of a issue with Veeam Backup.Short summary: all the jobs fails with error (another shadow copy creation is already in progress), and the last step was test a backup with...
View ArticleHow to backup a backup created by wbadmin on a dedicated drive
Hi,I am planning to dedicate an HDD to Windows server backup for backing up the BMR of our 2019 Domain Controller systems. However, I also need a mechanism to backup this backup disconnected from...
View ArticlePrimary Domain Controller is dead
Hi! Everyone, i am working on a test scenario in a Lab. The scenario is that i have two domain controllers, primary domain controller (DC1) and Additional domain controller (ADC). My primary domain...
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Windows Backup - Alternate backups fail
I have seen the problem below randomly on multiple servers, but have never been able to find a solution.I am using Windows Backup to backup the system state on servers. The backups are completing...
View ArticleBACKUP ERROR 0x8078011E
Hello there.About four months ago my Windows Server 2012R2 started to get an error "Windows Backup Failed to Get an Exclusive Lock on ESP"Here is log: "The backup operation started at '2020 - 04 -...
View ArticleWindows Server Backup Failed because another operation was in progress
Hi:Windows Server Backup was running successfully on this Windows Server 2008 R2 machine then simply stopped working, reporting "The operation failed because another operation was in progress. Retry...
View Articleshadow copy
I see there is a lot of shadow copy when I run vssadmin list shadows. It seems that a shadow copies created very hour. This creates problem for me because it is a exchange server and shadow copy on...
View ArticleWindows Server Backup MMC doesn't load (Error Details: the system cannot find...
I've encountered an issue when starting Windows Server Backup on 2008 64 bit, A fatal error occurred during a windows server backup snap-in operation. Error Details: the system cannot find the path...
View ArticleTest-SRtopology What has to be done to a volume so Test-SRtopology can find it?
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-SRtopology -SourceComputerName Server1 -SourceVolumeName H: -SourceLogVolumeName G: -DestinationComputerName Server2 -DestinationVolumeName D: -DestinationLogVolumeName...
View ArticleWbadmin.msc on windows server 2012 fails to start in MMC with error...
Hi, Since some time now i have not been able to use the Windows server backup tool anymore.I cant really tell since when this started, but for all i know the windows server backup service worked fine.I...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Server Backup - fatal error - cannot find path specified
I have added the Windows Server Backup feature to a couple of our Server 2008 Standard edition servers. When I launch it, I get a message:A fatal error occurred during a windows Server Backup snap-in...
View Article"Compacting the virtual hard disk(s)" message
While running windows server backup on a w2k8-r2 server, i noticed the message set to "compacting the virtual hard disk(s)". Is there any info avaialble on this?
View ArticleRestore WinXP tape backups in Win7?
Hi there,I was running Windows XP SP3 and I have recently installed Win7 (64-bit). I have lots of LTO2 tapes containing data that I might need to access from Windows 7. My question is: how do I...
View ArticleDo I need all files (including xml) or only vhdx file for recovery?
I have setup backup for my server. I want to move the backup to storage server to store for 3 months. Do I need all the files including xml or do I only need the vhdx file?
View ArticleWhy Can't Windows 10 PRO Support Shadow Storage on a Different Drive?
With the increasing use of SSD drives for the system drive it is only sensible to try to reduce as much as possible unwanted writes to the SSD.One way to do this would be to allow Shadow Storage to be...
View ArticleWhy do all my backup copies disappear when the disk reaches capacity?
Windows Server 2016 running Exchange 2016. Windows Server Backup does a Full backup every night.I check the backups every Thursday. Last week it had 20-copies and this week it has 1-copy. This has...
View ArticleRestoring Windows Server 2012 Standard Using Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard...
I was in the process of restoring a Windows Server 2012 Standard Image and i encountered an error;"Re-image failed, error: The processor architecture or OS version of Windows Recovery Enviroment is not...
View Articlew2k8 server backup error: the user name being used for accessing the remote...
Greetings. I am a new user of both qnap and w2k8 server. I joined qnap device to the w2k8 domain. Now I am trying to set up server backup I ran into a problem. As instructed I use QNAPname\user to...
View ArticleSchedule Backup as administrator error "You must be a member of the local...
Logged in as administrator Going through Administrative Tools -> Windows Server Backup -> Backup Schedule Setting up a new remote backup on a different server (requiring different login...
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