Recovery of a bare-metal backup of a Hyper-V machine to a newer Hyper-V host
I'm testing out scenarios of backing up and restoring our DC. One of the two DCs we have is a VM (running Server 2016) on a 2012R2 Hyper-V host.The host is a bit outdated, but at the time we do not...
View ArticleVSS Event ID 8193 on Windows 2008 R2
Dear all,I tried to run a snapshot on WMware server for a Windows 2008 R2 VM. It failed with the below error message on event log. Does anyone have idea to fix the below error message? I google the...
View ArticleHyper-V VSS Writer disappers form writers list
Hi all,could someone help to find out what is causing this issue.I have a third party backup solution (EMC Avamar) which uses in background Hyper-V VSS Writer to make backups.Recently I've being...
View ArticleEvent ID 25 the shadow copies on Volume J: were deleted because shadow copy...
I saw this error today and was surprised because shadow copies are turned off for this drive.Windows 2008R2 Domain controller/fileserverThe shadow copies of volume J: were deleted because the shadow...
View ArticleAD, DNS & Exchange Backup
Hello,We have Windows Server 2012 R2 which hosts Active Directory, DNS and Exchange Server 2010. What we have to include in our backup to make sure that we can restore AD, DNS and Exchange Server in...
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Windows Server Backup Error: "Volume(s) OS have and unsupported files system...
I am wondering if anyone else has seen the below error message? If so how do I correct it, I don't want to have to purchase a 3rd party backup software package to backup the entire server if...
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Windows 2016 Backup fails - Event ID 517 error code '0x807800C5'
Hi guys,I recently installed 2 Windows 2016 servers on a Hyper-V 2012 cluster. I'm backing up to a brand new QNAP NAS with *plenty* of storage space (just checked, 11TB available). Verified the access...
View ArticleWindows Server Backup (Windows Server 2012 R2) - strange error log
Hi, After create backup server with Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2012 R2 application create txt file named "Backup_error_" with this text: Application Backup...
View ArticleWindows Server Backup Backup and Restore
I am trying to configure "Windows Server Backup." So, I setup windows server backup on one of our domain controllers. The organization wants to set up a backup of domain controllers. All the domain...
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...
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Data Loss Event ID 25 "The shadow copies on Volume E: were deleted because...
It appears that this has been an issue for over 10 years now, and there is yet a resolution to be had.Once you fill up the available shadow copy storage allocated, then push a lot of disk I/O's, your...
View ArticleBaremetal recovery from iSCSI target
I am experimenting with iSCSI targets (OpenFiler) for network backup of Windows 2008 server and Windows 7. Backups are working fine but now I get to restore testing and realize I cannot see the iSCSI...
View ArticleError in backup of C:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot...
Hello All,Windows server backup of a SBS 2011 is getting failed.Below is details in log Error in backup of C:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified.Checked...
View ArticleMS backup with LTO tape drive (Windows server 2016)
We created a server for doing backups to a LTO drive. Is it possible to do the backups to the LTO drive using MS backup or do we have to use a third party application to do this?Thank you,Aaron Hebert
View ArticleAccessing files from vhd backup created by WSB of Server 2019 REFS Deduped...
Hello! I have a customer a Windows Server 2019 host running Hyper-V using an REFS de-duplicated volume. Windows Server Backup is backing up the entire E: (Hyper-V VM's) to an NTFS external USB disk...
View ArticleCannot Delete Shadows - vssadmin
Hello, Scheduled Backup cannot run because disk is full and when I try to delete older backups on Windows Server 2008 R2, vssadmin gives the following error with no relevant google results:...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 - Automatic Schedule - Invalid location
Hello Everyone,So this is a weird problem. Using the windows feature backup utility. I am able to back up to a network shared folder only by selecting a manual backup option and it does not ask me for...
View ArticleSnapshot vs System State Backup
Hello,This is for a Windows Server 2016.So yesterday my boss asked me what is the difference between a snapshot vs a system state backup? The difference that I know of is the snapshot you have to write...
View ArticleServer 2016 VSS Freeze Error
Attempting to perform backup on Server 2016 and keep getting this error:VSS error 0x800423f2: The writer's timeout expired between the Freeze and Thaw events. I have attempted the recommended registry...
View Articlewindows could not start block level backup engine service
Hello, Im trying to perform system state backup for one of the server its unable to run. Last week we have performed the system state backup without any issue.Operating System:2008OS...
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