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Can't Find Any Way to Control Backups

July 14, 2018, 9:02 am
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I perform weekly Bare Metal backups on my Server 2012 R2 Foundation, using the included Windows Server Backup  but I can't find any way to control how many are kept, nor how to manually remove older ones. With the Windows 7, 10 etc. backup there's a link to remove old backups, but I can't find one in the Windows Server backup.  In the absence of any link for that - and there's nothing in "Help" - I thought that the program would keep a certain number of backups and clear out old ones, but today my disk filled up and when I clicked on "Viewed details" under All Backups, I found dates going back a couple of years, and no way to clear old ones.

Can anyone tell me how I can either specify the number of backups to keep, or how to monitor and remove older ones?

Capt. Dinosaur


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Windows Server Backup failing in Windows Server 2016

May 23, 2017, 7:34 am
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Hello Technet,
I have a strange issue.

When I perform a system state backup on a W2K16 server to a (qnap nas) unc path it fails

When I perform a system state backup on a W2K12R2 server to a (qnap nas) unc path it succeeds

When I perform a system state backup on a W2K16 server to a (windows share) unc path it succeeds

When I perform a system state backup on a W2K12R2 server to a (windows share) unc path it succeeds

The command I use on both servers is :
Wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:”\\<ipaddress>\backup”

The share is accessible and the permissions are also correct.

The error message I get is :
There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.
The specified backup disk cannot be found.

Eventviewer gives a ID 9 Unexpected provider failure. Restarting the service may fix the problem. Error code: 80070037@02000014

The logfile in %windir%\logs\windowserverbackup says : 
Backup of volume \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\ has failed. The specified backup disk cannot be found.

On the Qnap nas I tried different SMB versions.

I also tried multiple servers and multiple nas boxes on multiple fysical locations

The only similarity is that the servers are running on Hyper-V (a 2012R2 host and a 2016 host)

Anybody has any idea ??


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Fatal Error. Server execution failed.

January 15, 2011, 6:08 am
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Hi. I have problem with Windows Server Backup.
I’m using Server 2008 R2 standard edition and Wbadmin.msc suddenly stop working. When I try to start Wbadmin.msc, the error says:
A fatal error occurred during a Windows Server Backup snap-in (Wbadmin.msc) operation.
Error details:
Server execution failed.
Close Wbadmin.msc and then restart it.

I have tried that and course it didn’t work. I tried to uninstall and install again WSB and it didn’t work, also I have search to forums and I didn’t find anything concrete.
Does anybody have any idea?

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Difference between Baremetal backup and full backup in 2012 and 2016 OS

July 19, 2018, 5:01 am
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Hi

I am planning to perform a bare metal backup for my Active Directory infrastructure. In case my entire AD DC are compromised I need to overcome from the situation.

Using bare metal backup I heard that from MS article we can restore the backup to dissimilar HW.

While selecting the option I can able to see two methods one is bare metal backup another is full server backup.

May I know the right option to perform the bare metal?

Please assist.



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How Can I Schedule A Backup LESS Than Daily?

March 17, 2012, 11:16 am
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I'm currently using Windows Server Backup (in Server 2008 R2) to an attached HDD in an eSATA dock, which INCLUDES the Bare Metal Recovery AND System State.  There is, and will be for the near future, very littl activity on my server and no significant daily changes.  I'd like to be able to, for the time being, schedule the backup to occur only weekly, but Windows Server Backup doesn't seem to provide that option.  Currently the backup is scheduled to occur daily, but I've only been mounting the disk weekly.  This causes six days of "Backup Failed" error messages, and I'm afraid that I may not be getting everything that I need when the weekly backups occur.

I also have two Win 7 computers  backing up the same way, but Win 7 provides for a WEEKLY option.  Is there any way to properly schedule weekly backups on my server???

Creacon


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to remove the lock screen password

July 4, 2015, 1:11 pm
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please help me to remove the lock screen password . it is creating problem as while opening my laptop the Microsoft account password is always demanded .even if given often it shows error
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Backup Time is extremly HIGH

June 8, 2018, 1:00 am
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Hi,

 We have  Windows 2003 Server Failover cluster server. One of the storage disk have some SAN patch issue - among 2, one SAN path is not working. Storage is HP EVA. Problem is that one of storage disk have around 1 TB space & one of file of the disk around 550 GB. Disk is almost 90% utilized. Usually backup with DP 6.2 through SAN multipath took 3 Hr. (before SAN patch issue). Now a days backup taking time between 8 to 12 hrs., it varies, but my total backup size is not varied - it remain between 850 GB to 900 GB. Also checked that specifically the large 550 GB file taking too much time for backup. I am suspecting the large file have some issue. How to check this file as well as the storage disk also. I am agree that for SAN path issue backup time is taking much time, considering this I need to check the file consistency & the respective disk. How to do this ? Reply please.

S Mandal

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Restore BKF File into Windows 10, 7, 8, 8.1, Vista & XP, how to do it?

September 7, 2017, 5:38 am
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NTBackup.exe utility unable to open my BKF file into Windows 10, 7, 8, 8.1, Vista. How can i restore bkf file in Windows without any data loss. Which is the best solution that restore my bkf files? 
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I have one physical server 2012 r2 and running 4 VM with the help of hyper-v. I want to take full backup of physical server.

August 4, 2018, 9:36 am
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Hi Support,

I have one physical server and install 2012 r2 (Non-Domain) & installed hyper-v role. After that i have configure 4 VM (DC & File Server & Application Server) now i want to take full backup .

I want to take backup & keep to restore if any misshaping (physical server down) then we can restore same setting on after rebuild or ready another server asap.  

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Error when attempting to backup 2016 Domain Controller

January 17, 2018, 10:02 am
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I have one Windows Server 2016 domain controller.  It has been in place for about 3 months and has been working well.  I have been doing a Full backup of the server every two weeks for disaster recovery and to get my Active Directory backed up.  The backup has been running successfully every time.  No errors.  Today I am getting an error when I run the backup.  There have been no changes made to this system.  It is running as a VM under hyper-V.  The only thing that has been done is Windows updates have been installed and the system has been rebooted.  No other changes at all.

The errors are as follows:

There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.  Detailed error: The specified backup disk cannot be found.

If I click to view list of all failed files I get the following:
Backup of volume \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\ has failed. The specified backup disk cannot be found.

Please help me figure out what is going on with this server. 
BYW- I ran a custom backup and selected C: and system state and it ran successfully.  However it showed 0KB backed up for System State.
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restore Server 2012 backup using another backup system

August 15, 2018, 10:52 am
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We backup our data using Windows Server Backup from one of our Server 2012 machines. If we want to restore some files with another computer what are our options? Can we restore from the WindowsImageBackup folder using the backup utility in Windows 7 Pro?
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Windows Image Backup - Recover - "The specified remote shared folder does not contain any backup."

March 23, 2011, 1:23 am
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I'm testing 2008R2 SP1 Windows Image Backups. Two Servers alpha and omega each have an older backup stored on the other server, in shared folders. In Windows Server Backup - Recovery Wizard - Specify Remote Folder I get to specify the UNC path "to the remote shared folder that contains the backup." Easy, right? I have tried (from \\alpha)

\\omega\WindowsImagebackup    (which is the shared folder)

\\omega\WindowsImagebackup\alpha

\\omega\WindowsImagebackup\alpha\Backup 2011-03-22 133034

These all error with

"The specified remote shared folder does not contain any backup. Provide the path to a remote shared folder that contains backups."

Must be corrupted? But, vice-versa, trying from \\omega and looking at \\alpha i get the same error.

Tell me I'm missing something stupid..  Thanks!

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Backing up to two external drives

August 2, 2018, 3:55 pm
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Hello,

I need to backup 20TB of data.    The client is too cheap to do anything but TWO 12TB external drives.   THey want to use Windows Server native backup.

How do I back up some VMs to one drive and some VMs to another.

Please don't explain how important backups are and how they should consider another alternative.  I have to implement what they want.   I'm familiar with VEAM, disk arrays, replication servers, cloud backup, etc.   There is ZERO money in the budget for anything else.  They already have the two external drives.



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Server 2012 wbadmin backup failing - The mounted backup volume is inaccessible

January 2, 2013, 2:41 pm
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Hi Folks,

I'm trying to run a backup on one of my 2012 DC's using wbadmin's -allcritical switch. The backup is being directed to a network share on a Netapp. The machine is a VM running on VMWare, however, other physical 2012 servers are able to backup to this Netapp successfully. The syntax being used is:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:"\\fileserver\VM Backup\MYDC\1st" -include:c: -allcritical -vssfull -quiet > "c:\scripts\Server Backup.log"

Strangely, the 350 MB 'System Reserved' partition auto-created during the Windows install seems to back up and copy fine, but the C: drive will not. I have tried directing the backup to a different network share with the same result. I have wbadmin running sucessfully on 5 other 2008\R2 servers (also VM's running from the same VMWare server) against the same network share.

Any ideas on this? I'm not really finding much on it I'm afraid. Thanks for any help,

ianc

Below is the output from the log: 

Retrieving volume information...
This will back up System Reserved (350.00 MB),MYDC(C:) to \\fileserver\VM Backup\MYDC\1st.
The backup operation to \\fileserver\VM Backup\MYDC\1st is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a backup of volume System Reserved (350.00 MB), copied (56%).
The backup of volume System Reserved (350.00 MB) completed successfully.
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
The backup of volume MYDC(C:) could not be completed. Error: The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.
Summary of the backup operation:
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The backup operation stopped before completing.
The backup operation stopped before completing.
Detailed error: The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.
Log of files successfully backed up:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-02-01-2013_21-17-33.log

Log of files for which backup failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-02-01-2013_21-17-33.log

There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.
The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.



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Problems with System Writer on Windows Server Enterprise

June 21, 2018, 7:50 am
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Hi everyone,

I got a problem when I use Avamar on some servers, only Windows Server Enterprise. The backup is not working, and when I'm looking into logs, I can see that I got an error about "System Writer". Indeed, when I launch "vssadmin list writers", I should see "System writer" but I don't.

I searched on internet to get some solutions, like giving some rights on some folders, but it changed nothing and then I saw that I could install the Fix484021 to fix it. But... the fix isn't working on my OS :( (link : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2911752/system-writer-is-missing-and-backups-fail-in-windows-server-2008)

I tried to contact the support by chat, but I don't get an answer from it because it's laggy.

Waiting for help.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Clément.

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Restore 2008r2 domain controller from bare-metal backup?

May 25, 2011, 8:00 am
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We have an AD forest with one domain and 17 2008R2 DC's. We recently had a system partition fail on an important DC that was also doing some file and application serving. We'd been using Arcserve backups and also doing a Windows Server backup of the system volume and System State.

When attempting a recovery, I ran into a Microsoft article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694) that states that "If there are other healthy domain controllers online for the domain, we recommend that you do not perform a restore at all. Instead, perform a new installation of Windows on the destination computer and run the Active Directory Installation Wizard (Dcpromo.exe), to make the installation a replica in an existing domain."

Can you tell me whether there is currently a Microsoft-approved procedure to restore a DC's system drive (with programs, registry setttings, etc., that would be lost with a new install)? Or is a fresh installation and reinstallation and reconfiguration of settings and programs followed by DCPromo the only official way?

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How to check if Windows Backup completed Successfully?

October 20, 2009, 8:10 am
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I have used Windows Backup to back up a Windows Server 2008 R2. Now I would like to be notified if the bakup is not successful.
I have created a Scheduled Task to trigger ONEVENT when an EventID 4 is logged to the log Microsoft-Windows-Backup/Operational.
EventID 4 is when a backup is successful. What EventID do I need to check for to be notified when a backup is unsuccessful?

Do I have to check for all the EventIDs that signifies an error?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd364735%28WS.10%29.aspx
I can see that there is gaps in the list so I would like to know if there is a single EventID that is logged whenever a backup don't complete.

Regards
Supergoof
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cluster service Error 1053 in server 2012 R2

August 23, 2018, 7:13 am
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The error window is popped up once trying to start cluster service with the domain admint user. It says: Windows could not start the Cluster Service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashiion. The Server 2012 R2 is installed in this PC. The capture is attached for the refernce. The cluster is created from Failover Cluster Manager per the procedures from MS website.

Please note, we create this cluster in order to Deploy Always On availability groups in SQL 2016 that requries to work with Vedio survanlance system. 

What would be the cause of this issue? How to fix? Please advise.

thanks

John

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Windows server 2008 backup error code '2155347997'

November 22, 2011, 10:22 pm
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Hi,

We are configured windows server 2008 machine as our domain controller. And the backup was configured for system state with windows backup. It is going to a share folder. It was working perfectly but now it is getting an error says that "The backup operation that started at '‎2011‎-‎11‎-‎22T20:00:06.743827000Z' has failed with following error code '2155347997'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved."

Error in backup of C:\Windows\winsxs\wow64_microsoft-windows-scripting-vbscript_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.21663_none_b1273ff5922e61ad\vbscript.dll during write: Error [0x8007048f] The device is not connected.

Please give us a solution .

 

Best Regards, SA
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wbadmin backup schedule

September 1, 2018, 12:36 am
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Hi,

I am using wbadmin for performing baremetal backup. Planing to schedule daily, weekly and monthly.

However Wbadmin tool not having any option to do it. wbadmin tool allowing me to do only daily backup. There is no feature available to do multiple schedule.

Please assist. 

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