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Windows backup command line issue

August 16, 2016, 1:52 pm
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Hello,

I am trying to use command for some specifics reasons to back up 4 servers to a network location.  I created a local account on the server that needs to be backed up and on the server that hosts the backup location and gave it admin rights.  But when I run it I get an error saying "The user name or password is invalid".

If I run the same command and replace the credentials with a domain credentials that has admin rights it works.

wbadmin enable backup -addtarget:$backuplocation -schedule:00:30 -include:"c:,d:" -systemState -allCritical -vssFull -quiet -user:computer_name\man_backup -password:Password

Ishan

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Setting backup schedules

May 1, 2012, 7:41 am
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Hello ... being quite new to Server 2008 backup, I have questions.  Is it possible to do FULL backups for Monday thru Friday only, excluding Saturday and Sundays?  Can individual backups be named (i.e. MonBackup, TueBackup, WedBackup, etc.)

Thanks so much
Tim

Tim ...


another question was asked of me.  Can server backups be copied?  i.e. We use 3 Seagate GoFlex external drives.  Can a drive be connected to a desktop and copied?
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Manual Backup of Certain Folders

August 9, 2016, 5:08 pm
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I am wanting to copy certain folders containing project data to external USB Drives (3TB) and store offsite.

Our server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and the workstations Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

In the unlikely event that the server crashes, (we use workstations with Cad software installed) I am wanting to be able to connect the drive to a workstation and transfer the necessary files to allow work to proceed on a project until the server is back up.  So far I have copied data to the external drive but when connecting to the PC it doesn't recognize it.  I see it in Device Manager but not showing up in Windows Explorer.

Any suggestions?  You can probably tell that I am just learning about Windows Server.  We are a small company and I have been asked to implement this offsite backup scheme.  I want to just copy files manually and not use software.  I would rotate two external drives on a weekly basis.

I really appreciate any assistance and please take it easy on the noobie.

Thanks again.

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System State Backup - ERROR - Specified backup location could not be found.

January 5, 2012, 12:23 pm
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Hello

I have Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Version 6.0 (Build 6002: Service Pack 2) and I am trying to backup the System State. The command I am using is: wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:c:\Backup

The output and error I am getting when I hit enter in a command prompt that I am Running As Administrator is:

wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Starting System State Backup [1/5/2012 1:13 PM]
Retrieving volume information...

This would backup the system state from volume(s) Local Disk(C:) to c:\Backup.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y


ERROR - Specified backup location could not be found.

It is my understanding that this command is correct and it should work provided that there is enough room on the drive(which there is). Any ideas as to why it isn't working? Many thanks.

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VSSADMIN continually waiting for response from VSS writers

July 15, 2014, 6:02 pm
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Hi Everyone,

We have a Corporate Server 2012 Datacenter Hyper-V Host with about 10 VM's which use ARCServe and the Microsoft Hyper-V writer.

We aren't getting backups and when I run a vssadmin list writers I get the "waiting for response"

C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2012 Microsoft Corp.
Waiting for responses.
These may be delayed if a shadow copy is being prepared.

I've restarted the volume shadow copy and Microsoft Software shadow copy provider services but it still won't list the vss writers.

Looks like a reboot will only resolve the issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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WS 2008 Backup warning "D: The system cannot find the file specified"

August 3, 2016, 9:24 am
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I am running Windows 2008 server R2 Service Pack 1 on a Dell PER 720 with 32 GB or RAM.

I recently attached a 1 TB Samsung SSD via USB and ran a full bare metal backup.  It worked perfectly 1 time.

Now I get the warning that drive "D:  The system cannot find the file specified".  It appears to be backing up drive C: (OS) just fine but the data drive is not working... 

Here is a link to the backup Wbadmin.0.etl log file that I cannot read.  

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz7KXOfhWjvvLXZzQnhIdmlyWGM&usp=sharing

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Need help with a remote backup server for my clients

August 16, 2016, 8:22 am
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Hi there I am trying to find an solution to a dilemma that may or may not be feasible to attempt to resolve. Kind of like reinventing the wheel. I am trying to put together a machine I can use to backup my clients systems. I realize that there are numerous online backup companies/sites out there that could do what I want for very cheap, however cost is not really the factor. Most of these inexpensive backup sites don't allow for unlimited backups or versioning of backups for any length of time, as a local backup does, rather they count individual completed backup sessions.  So for instance if they backup your pc once that counts as a session and if you backup daily after a week that counts for 7 sessions. Most online backup solutions will save anywhere from 5-15 sessions, which means if you client doesn't become aware of the error, or catch the deleted or overwritten file within that time span they are SOL and if you recommended the service or are associated as a partner to the backup service then you don't look or smell very nice to your client. I know these online vendors have thousands of clients and this has everything to do with space limitations that is why I wish to setup my own device especially with drive size and pricing being what they are. I have a small client base maybe 20 companies and probably a total of 5 TB of data between them. I have a fiber optic internet connection with 100/100 up/down and most of my clients have similar or at the very least cable connections of 5-10 up/down. Can anyone recommend a solution in a box or lead me in the right direction that would allow me to setup a backup server that will allow remote backup access to my system. Preferably one that uses the built in backup client software that comes with windows. Like I said I may be trying to reinvent the wheel but for the safety of important data, I and my clients would feel better if we knew exactly where our data resided who has access to it and if necessary we could restore a file at least a year back. The backup would consist of individual files and folders, like QuickBooks company files, word and excel files, videos, music etc.. no SQL databases, no VM's or the like, strictly data no pc system images because of time and size constraints, unless it is possible or feasible to create the initial backup locally and import it to the server and then generate incremental backups afterwards. Please if possible help me re-invent the wheel.

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Vss optimization writer error

August 15, 2016, 6:34 am
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"Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine Unexpected error: dwIndex out of scope 12 1169150512.  hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure
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Operation:
   OnIdentify event
   Gathering Writer Data

Context:
   Execution Context: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer
   Writer Class Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Name: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer
   Writer Instance ID: {eeb9563c-73af-43eb-b18b-c9070c245875}   "

I want to know the cause for this event. I checked the whole event log and couldn't find the reason for this.

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Backup Error Windows 2012 R2 A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found.

August 23, 2016, 6:25 pm
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When performing bare metal backup on windows server 2012 r2 machine using WBadmin I receive

A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found.   and the backup fails.

The target hdd is a 1TB external USB device. 

I have applied the suggested fix from MedicalS in this forum ie

Please test to change the FsDepends service to "boot" and see the result. If issue persists you could simply change it back:

Find this key:

"HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FsDepends"

Under the "FsDepends" key, change REG_DWORD value "Start" from "3" to "0"

and rebooted but the problem persists.

Help any advice welcome !!!

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Incremental and Full backups using WBADMIN and Task Scheduler in Server 2008 R2

May 22, 2012, 1:37 pm
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I'd like to create an automated rotating schedule of backups using wbadmin and task scheduler, which would backup Bare Metal Recovery; System State; Drive C: and D: to a Network Share in a pattern like this:

  • Monday - Incremental, overwrite last Monday's
  • Tuesday - Incremental, overwrite last Tuesday's
  • Wednesday - Incremental, overwrite last Wednesday's
  • Thursday - Incremental, overwrite last Thursday's
  • Friday - Incremental overwrite last Friday's
  • Saturday - Full, overwrite last Saturday's

I need to use the wbadmin commands within the Task Scheduler and do not know any of the required Syntax to make sure everything goes smoothly, I do not want to do this through the CMD.

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"the backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used"

October 23, 2009, 1:39 pm
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kay so yesterday i backed up all my stuff from xp pro cause i was gonna install win7 today, and i did. After trying to find out whats what i found out that win7 doesnt support bkf files yet.
I proceeded to download xp mode and ran that. Now when i try to restore my backup file i get that error mentioned in the thread title.

"the backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used"

WHAT TO DO?!

Please dont tell me i lost 350gbs of data!
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Hyper-V Backup over SMBv3 with VSS

August 29, 2016, 2:05 am
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Hi Together

I try to take a backup of Hyper-V VMs (Windows Guests) using VSS.

Infrastructure:
HP ProLiant SE326M1 Shared Storage (Win Server 2012 R2) using SMB 2x HP DL380 G6 Hyper-V Servers (in Failover Cluster) The 3 Servers are Connected directly using 10 GBit/s.

Failover, Live-Migration, etc. works all without problem.

To be sure VSS works, I followed the steps described here on the storage serverhttps://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612865(v=ws.11).aspx

-> A mistake on my side by configuration the storage is possible, but I don't know what i did wrong :(

 Problem:
- If I try to perform a shadow copy (using DISKSHADOW) of a Hyper-V vServer operating on the SMB Storage, I got this error: the component microsoft hyper-v vss writer was not found in the writer components list.

- If I move the SAME VM to the local storage on the server (so the server is also not active in the Failover = Standalone VM) It works with the exact same commands.

The command vssadmin list writers don’t shows errors for the Hyper-V VSS Writer. The machines are up to date and rebooting don’t changes anything.

I hope some one has an idea :)


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Hyper-V VSS Writer fails during backup

August 2, 2016, 1:52 pm
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I have a nightly scheduled backup on my server running Server 2012 R2. Every time, the backup of Hyper-V (including my one VM) fails. The error wbadmin gives me is "The component <Name of the VM>(Online) was skipped during the snapshot and will not be available for recovery. Error: The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur."

In event viewer, SPP throws an Event 16387, saying "Writer Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer experienced some error during snapshot creation.  More info: ." (copied just as it was written, that's not a typo). Details say "The writer experienced a partial failure. Check the component level error state for more information. (0x80042336) Unspecified error (0x80004005)".

What could be causing this problem?

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VSS/Image-based Backups Causing Random Reboots

August 5, 2016, 12:25 am
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Hey guys,

I've got a very low post count on this account, and I'm back again for another VSS issue.

We have a client server out in the wild using Arcserve Backup Manager for bare metal server backups. Recently, it's been getting to about 60%, then causing a system reboot. None of us have witnessed the event in person, but I can only imagine it's a BSOD and a reboot.

The reason I suspect it's a VSS issue (and not an Arcserve issue) is because we tested using Windows Server Backup as well, and we get the same result - this is based on Arcserve's suggestion. As soon as we suspend the schedule, the server never randomly reboots.

The only thing I can find in the event logs so far is:

Event 41: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Every time I've run "vssadmin list writers", I get no errors.

Has anyone experienced similar behavior, or perhaps have any suggestions?

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yellow font

August 22, 2016, 9:27 pm
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when I open the control panel all the fonts are yellow

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Windows back up failure with error code 2155348081?

April 13, 2015, 2:20 pm
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I am running windows back up on a hyper-v windows 2008r2 machine and it failed this weekend.  The destination NAS drive had a physical failure and we replaced it.  I believe that will fix the issue, my problem is that I cannot find a definition for the error code (2155348081).  Below is the details:

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          4/12/2015 9:00:25 PM
Event ID:      19
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          DOMAIN-***\administrator
Computer:      ***-APP2.Domain.***
Description:
The backup operation attempted at '‎2015‎-‎04‎-‎13T04:00:25.715925400Z' has failed to start, error code '2155348081'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" />
    <EventID>19</EventID>
    <Version>2</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-04-13T04:00:25.731520400Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1901</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="6536" ThreadID="8728" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Backup</Channel>
    <Computer>***-APP2.Domain.***</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1614895754-776561741-725345543-500" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="HRESULT">2155348081</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2015-04-13T04:00:25.715925400Z</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTarget">\\ix2-dl-10\Backups\Windows Server Backup\APP2</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTime2">2015-04-13T04:00:25.715925400Z</Data>
    <Data Name="HRESULT2">2155348081</Data>
    <Data Name="NumOfVolumes">2</Data>
    <Data Name="VolumeNames">\\?\Volume{420a0573-f303-11e1-a01f-806e6f6e6963}\ C: </Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

  

Any incite would be greatly appreciated.

-Mike


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Do Not Trust WSB Logs/Events: VHDX File restores as zero size from Windows Server Backup

February 24, 2015, 11:31 am
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On Windows 2012 Server Host Machine:

I had occasion to restore a 118 GB VHDX from backup. However, although it shows in the WSB Recovery Wizard, and neither the Event Logs or the Windows Backup Log Files show any errors, the file restores as zero size. I tried from several previous days' WSB backups as well.

The file is a *.VHDX that is mounted and shared for all machines on my network. It is not attached to a virtual machine.

WSB is set up to backup the Hard Drive letter of the partition the VHDX is stored in (along with a few other files).

When I recover that partition from WSB, the other files restore fine, but the VHDX is restored as size=0. All the VMs (on other partitions) seem to restore OK.

I also had an external Wbadmin backup where I backed up that VHDX file explicitly instead of using the drive letter, and it restored fine.

If I have to backup VHDX files explicitly, then fine. But WSB should not list a file as backed up successfully and available for restore if it cannot, in fact, be restored. I have to wonder if there are any other files that will not restore either. Also, the log files (C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-dd-mm-yyyy_hh-hh-ss.log) should have reported this problem, rather than record success as "Backup of volume T: succeeded."

The only thing I can think of at this point, is that perhaps it remained locked by a network machine somehow. Even still, WSB should have backed it up in a crash consistent state, or at least give a warning or error.

I review my backup logs and events regularly and there was nothing to indicate any issue at the time of backup. Obviously, WSB is not capable of reliably reporting success and failure, and cannot be trusted.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks,

Bob.


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Windows 7 VM Backup Failing

August 24, 2016, 3:38 am
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Hello All,

Our Environment

Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter Hyperv V 4 node cluster

All VMs are stored on CSV's which are SAN disks from HP SAN

The backup tool is netbackup V 7.6.

One VM which has Windows 7 Service pack 1 OS is failing backups since 2nd August.

No changes on VM prior to backups staring to fail.

All other VM backups are success( Including other Windows 7 VMs)

Error in netbackup

24/08/2016 10:53:11 - Info bpfis(pid=3972) done. status: 4207: Could not fetch snapshot metadata or state files  
snapshot error encountered(156)

I found that below mentioned VSS writers on VM keep failing when the backup is run

Com+ RegDB, WMI, Shadow copy optimization and Windows search writers keep failing


I have done the following troubleshooting to try and resolve the issue , but no resolution so far.

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1)updated integration services to latest

2) Installed below mentioned hotfixes
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2996928
Backup task fails with a time-out error in Windows


https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3121255
"0x00000024" Stop error in FsRtlNotifyFilterReportChange and VSS backup of PI Data server fails in Windows

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2505454
Volsnap

3) Re registered all VSS DLL's

rem
net stop "System Event Notification Service"
net stop "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"
net stop "COM+ Event System"
net stop "Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider"
net stop "Volume Shadow Copy"
cd /d %windir%\system32
net stop vss
net stop swprv
regsvr32 /s ATL.DLL
regsvr32 /s comsvcs.DLL
regsvr32 /s credui.DLL
regsvr32 /s CRYPTNET.DLL
regsvr32 /s CRYPTUI.DLL
regsvr32 /s dhcpqec.DLL
regsvr32 /s dssenh.DLL
regsvr32 /s eapqec.DLL
regsvr32 /s esscli.DLL
regsvr32 /s FastProx.DLL
regsvr32 /s FirewallAPI.DLL
regsvr32 /s kmsvc.DLL
regsvr32 /s lsmproxy.DLL
regsvr32 /s MSCTF.DLL
regsvr32 /s msi.DLL
regsvr32 /s msxml3.DLL
regsvr32 /s ncprov.DLL
regsvr32 /s ole32.DLL
regsvr32 /s OLEACC.DLL
regsvr32 /s OLEAUT32.DLL
regsvr32 /s PROPSYS.DLL
regsvr32 /s QAgent.DLL
regsvr32 /s qagentrt.DLL
regsvr32 /s QUtil.DLL
regsvr32 /s raschap.DLL
regsvr32 /s RASQEC.DLL
regsvr32 /s rastls.DLL
regsvr32 /s repdrvfs.DLL
regsvr32 /s RPCRT4.DLL
regsvr32 /s rsaenh.DLL
regsvr32 /s SHELL32.DLL
regsvr32 /s shsvcs.DLL
regsvr32 /s /i swprv.DLL
regsvr32 /s tschannel.DLL
regsvr32 /s USERENV.DLL
regsvr32 /s vss_ps.DLL
regsvr32 /s wbemcons.DLL
regsvr32 /s wbemcore.DLL
regsvr32 /s wbemess.DLL
regsvr32 /s wbemsvc.DLL
regsvr32 /s WINHTTP.DLL
regsvr32 /s WINTRUST.DLL
regsvr32 /s wmiprvsd.DLL
regsvr32 /s wmisvc.DLL
regsvr32 /s wmiutils.DLL
regsvr32 /s wuaueng.DLL
sfc /SCANFILE=%windir%\system32\catsrv.DLL
sfc /SCANFILE=%windir%\system32\catsrvut.DLL
sfc /SCANFILE=%windir%\system32\CLBCatQ.DLL
net start "COM+ Event System

4) Deleted old shadow copies, restarted the VM multiple times

5) Resized and reverted shadow copy space allocation on C drive, currently set to unbounded.

6) Deleted old registry entries referencing old shadow copies using DevNodeClean-x32

7) updated windows disk signature for the disk in VM. -- MBRFIX

8) Ran VSS Trace on Hyper V host and VM, have not been able to deduce much from it.

9) installed MS https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2627052 for Volsnap on VM.

10) Readded registry keys from working machine to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\VSS\Providers.

11) Disabled ASR

12) Deleted registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Providers\{74600e39-7dc5-4567-a03b-f091d6c7b092}
Restarted this service 'Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Requestor on the VM


13) Deleted microsoft provider HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/VSS/Providers/GUIDS.

14 ) Added below registry key
HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Volsnap

Right Side, New DWORD VALUE - "MinDiffAreaFileSize" - Modify and set the value in between "300-3000 MB" or any multiple

of 300 in between. Ideally we can set it to 3000 MB which works best if we have space.

Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826936

15) Restarted hyper V host and also restarted hyper V virtual machine service many times


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Application event log of the VM has below errors


Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {74600e39-7dc5-4567-a03b-f091d6c7b092}. Routine details PreFinalCommitSnapshots({816c0863-8f4e-4ed7-8f24-0689056b30dc}, 1) [hr = 0x800705b4, This operation returned because the timeout period expired.
].

Operation:
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: DoSnapshotSet

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Hyper V VMMS log entry

VSS writers inside virtual machine 'AFFECTED_VM' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: A function call was made when the object was in an incorrect state for that function (0x80042301). (Virtual machine ID D17455D4-5EDB-49D8-85A0-1F9088376048)

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I have the latest VSS traces if anyone wants to take a look, please let me know of any suggestions or anything tha tI can try to make this work.

Thanks in anticipation.




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Windows Server 2012r Interface

August 30, 2016, 6:13 am
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Hi all,
I am viewing the pbx interface through KVM switch on the server local console. This screen came up when I powered up the server after total shut down due to power issues. Please how do I  use the KVM switch to change to the windows server interface?

It's showing madephpbx login:_    


     
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Windows Server 12 Backup fail every second backup

July 7, 2016, 2:17 am
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On Win 2012 r2 from few weeks i have a strange issue.

Every second backup end after about 1 minute with message "more data is available"

Reconfigured backup from scratch - the same error. Reformatted usb disk - no change.

I've no idea. I can't find any valuable info in logs. When i start backup manually from console - everything is ok.

Server is up to date, restarted. Nothing helps.

Maybe someone can help ?

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