I'm really hoping someone can help out, as I'm going a bit crazy.
When I had set up the backup schedule for my WinServer 2016 domain controller in Windows Server 2016 Backup, I had it dedicate a virtual drive to backups.
The file for the virtual drive is called "Domain Controller Backup.vhdx" and is sitting on a backup drive mounted to G: on the host Windows system, FREDHOST (for purposes of this discussion).
Unfortunately, the vhd file for our domain controller got corrupt, so I'm trying to restore.
When I try to boot into the server, called DC1 (for purposes of this discussion), it cannot successfully boot and takes me to the troubleshooting options (as you would expect).
The problem is when I try to use System Image Recovery (in troubleshooting options), it just will not find any backups.
I have the backup virtual drive mounted to the virtual machine (via HyperV Manager) just as I did when it was successfully doing backups. However, it won't find any backups.
When I run mountvol in a command prompt, it shows multiple volumes, but none have a subdirectory called WindowsImageBackup.
I've tried making the virtual drive available via a network share (\\FREDHOST\G) and accessing via the network location option in System Image Recovery. It seems to see it, but then asks for ID and password. No matter what I enter (including a valid ID/PW for the host machine), it says its an invalid ID/PW. (Frankly I don't think this route is the answer, since I have a dedicated virtual backup drive.)
What do I need to do to get to my backups?!
Do I need to mount the dedicated backup drive a different way? Am I going to have to create a new 2016 Server and load from the Windows Server Backup interface?
I've seen a bunch of articles on the 'net, but none seem to address dedicated backup drives.
Thanks for your help.