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.