Backup Windows Server 2012 R2, failed to detach disk

November 19, 2015, 6:43 pm

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Hi all,

Currently we have a weird problem with WSB, W2012R2.

The scheduled backup process failed during night time, saying that it is failed to dismount backup image.

We notice that VSS creates "duplicate" volume during backup (vhd file), and when we check disk management console, the duplicated volume is there, not being detached. And when we tried to detach manually, it is being used by process, though we've check the VSS service is stopped, the backup is not running too. We set it offline, and then tried to detach again, still the same.

We tried to use detach vdisk command via diskpart, not successfull too. Vssadmin list writers returns no error.

We have similar backup schedule on another W2012R2 server, same updates state, but there is no problem with vhd detachment.

Please help.

Thanks.  

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GUI Regular backup Failed

November 20, 2015, 1:56 am

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Regular backup Failed

week  days on-wards i face these problem, reconfigure but not resolve
Status : Failed
                There was failure in creating a directory on the backup storage location

How to resolve?

Normal Backup Performance VS Faster Backup Performance

November 23, 2015, 12:15 am

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Hi,

The server I am working on currently is an HP ML110 (Tower Server), which is not a powerful one. It has 8 GB of Ram which 5 GB of it is being used by the application running on the server. Since it is an old server it only supports SATA Hard Drive and it does not have one of those warning LED lights to show whether the hard is in good condition or not. The application which is running on the server is a localized version of a sharepoint designed with Oracle. (letters and documents are scanned and being stored on this server and then send to the office workers in the network. These documents then being studied and reviewed by the mentioned office workers and then they write their comments and actions on a special tab).  

Due to financial limitations I have bought an external USB hard drive as an external drive to hold my once in a day backups. My question is, by considering the weakness of my server (HDD seems to be the bottleneck sometimes) which version of backup is recommended after the initial "Full Server Normal Backup"? Shall I go on with the Normal Backup Performance or Faster Backup Performance using incremental backups?

Missing MSVCR90.dll

November 23, 2015, 6:57 am

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Hi there,

We have a Windows server 2008R2 exchange server. We would like to make regular backups to it. So we purchased HP Data Protector. We are able to deploy and install manually the Data protector agent on every server EXCEPT this one. When we try to install we get "The program can't start because MSVCR90.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem".

Things i've tried already: 

-sfcscan

-windows update readiness tool fix

-repair Visual c++ 2008 readistributables

-uninstall and reinstall Visual c++ 2008 redistributables

-copy/paste the MSVCR90.dll from other sources, from other servers, from local server, from the internet.

None of the above worked.

Any other ideas?

Winidows 10 Password Protction

November 24, 2015, 10:17 am

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How can I eliminate the need to enter my password after every time I leave the computer, even for a very short period of time? This is really annoying. Thanks.

Backup Just from Active Directory 2003 R2

November 25, 2015, 10:07 pm

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Hi,

I have one server 2003R2-X64. I want to get backup just from Active Directory or System state.

I use from NTbackup command and get one backup from system state, but i can`t to restore by this backup.

How can i get one backup, JUST FROM My Active Directory and restore this?

Is there any third party application or implement?

Thanksgiving.

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Backup the Recover on new Server

November 26, 2015, 1:21 am

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Hello!

I have a Dell powerEdge t300 with raided drives inside, i have taken a full backup of the system using windows server backup but now I want to restore from this backup on my new dell power edge r710 but I dont have the server 2008 disk.

I am running Windows Server 2008 Standard x64

Thanks for help in advanced 

Application for Backup (Thrid-party)

November 27, 2015, 10:23 am

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Hi,

Which application is the best, for get backup from Active Directory?
I have one Domain controller and i want to get backup from Active Directory by third-party applications (Exclude solutions Microsoft)Thanks.

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perform backup in specific days in server 2012

November 30, 2015, 3:50 pm

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Hi all,

I am able to take normal backups like daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. For example, if I want to take backup in specific days like Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, I didn't see any option for that. How can I achieve his scenarios in windows server 2012 r2.

Thank You for the support.

Regards,

franklin.sucre

Hyper V VMMS Event ID 10172 server 2012 R2

August 15, 2014, 3:13 am

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Hi,

Recently setup a brand new 2012 R2 server, using hyper v to host 3 VM's, backing up with backup exec 2014.The backups are failing, backup exec stating...

V-79-40960-38521 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\UKBNHV01.ProCam.local\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\UKBNDC01". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).A virtual machine snapshot could not be created. Use the Event Viewer on the Hyper-V host to identify the cause. If the virtual machine is not properly configured, it may be necessary to use the Event Viewer in the virtual machine to identify the cause.

Looking at the Hyper V VMMS event viewer I get the error:

VSS writers inside virtual machine 'UKBNIT01' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). (Virtual machine ID 7C31CD39-FFAD-4E04-BF92-223BC120BE1B) event ID 10172

I see there are other posts relating to this, with random answers suggesting fixes relating to disk speeds and all sorts. If i restart the hyper v's and physical server the backup will run maybe 2 or 3 times successfully before failing again. Clearly buying a server to restart it every 2 days isn't an option.

It seems apparent this isn't just a problem relating to server 2012 R2, but has carried across in all newer versions of windows server.

My Vss Writers list as follows:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2013 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {89a328b7-87eb-48e2-a3e6-9d04b164ba32}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
   Writer Instance Id: {baa1e068-a50f-4d2e-898c-a54920ae4117}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: Retryable error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {4986e692-ea2c-454e-813e-9e5f71854adf}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {f7f18f2b-660b-4e18-9aa1-5caa5115045e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {bfa584a7-72b3-47c1-90d7-87e71074e875}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {954a91e4-8c93-4f21-9ceb-53f2df3fefc5}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {a254fab5-d160-4a2d-9f8f-e43e7ea0708e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {d01d076a-aa1b-4998-8a5b-91b993895405}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {1e7cb515-f73d-4146-838d-74605a77628c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Is anyone able to explain how to trace why the Hyper-V VSS Writer gets the retryable error?

Thanks

Nick

Backup History vanishing?

December 2, 2015, 1:09 am

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I'm using Windows Server Backup (incremental) to backup the most important data daily. 

Lately I added another dedicated harddisk for a daily disk-rolling. 

With only 1 disk, I remember that the incremental backup hold an infinite amount of "copies", allowing to go back in time for files. Now, with the second disk added, the biggest copy-count I saw per disk is somewhere around 2. 

Both the disks have around 2 TB Free Disk Space, while the data beeing backed up is at about 350GB now. 

So, what is happening here? 

The Message Log shows that within the last 2 days, disk "01" has been used 2 times for backup - however it just reports one copy of backups available

Is it possible that "prior" copies are getting purged, when you roll the disk?

Windows Backup on Hyper-Ved mail server fails to do daily backup to Hyper-Ved file server

December 2, 2015, 2:41 pm

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When I ask Windows Backup to "backup once", the backup is successful; however, when I schedule a daily backup, nothing happens, and the event log only shows Kerberos Authentication errors. Consistently, on the second that the scheduled backup is supposed to happen, there is a 0x18 KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED.

From my understanding, Kerberos preauthentication is important for security, and thus not something that should be disabled for users or administrators.

I've reentered the windows credential for the administrator to access the file server from the mail server; however this doesn't seem to help.

What is the proper backup of Windows Server 2008 R2 AD?

December 1, 2015, 7:55 pm

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Dear All Server Expert,

We are currently having on premise AD server running Server 2008 R2. there is another AD Server2 for the redundancy being built. Both of the AD server are actually a VM residing on two different physical hypervisor servers. May I know: what is the best backup strategy applied for AD so when one of the AD is down sue to software or hardware corruption, I will be able to restore it asap from the backup.

From my understanding, I will definitely need to backup both the Hyper V server and also the VM. FYI, I am using the backup exec 2010 R3 for my backup software. From the backup exec and by selecting the Hyper V server to be backup, I can see a list to be backup below:

AD is actually part of Microsoft Hyper-V as it is the VM. I have 2 situations that concern:

1. What about when only that AD VM is fail? will it be enough if I am restoring the full image backup from the Microsoft Hyper-V? After restoring then wait till another DC to replicate over. But what will happen if this AD has all the roles?

2. What about when the physical server itself fail? if those selections above being selected, will it be enough to restore?

Thanks.

Regards,

LTO-7

December 3, 2015, 6:06 am

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Hi,

I'd like to know if the LTO-7 drive will be supported on Windows Server 2008 ?

Thanks for your help.

Backup image size inconsistency

December 4, 2015, 12:50 pm

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I use this command to backup vms:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:<shared folder> -hyperv:<vm name> -quiet

I thought that WSB was compressing or otherwise reducing the size of the backups because the backup of vm with a 2 Tb data drive that has  1.5 Tb free takes up only 554 Gb (includes a 80 Gb system volume)

However, another vm with a 1.5 Tb data drive that has 730 Gb free requires 1.6 Tb disk space for its backup.

Can someone help me understand what factors control the size of the backup and how they might be operating in this case.?

 

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Secondary domain controller 2012R2

December 6, 2015, 1:21 pm

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Hi,

I have a domain with windows server 2012R2. My network has 7 vlans and I want to bring some redundancy in my network by adding a secondary domain controller. The secondary domain controller will also be server 2012R2. I like to know if I have to make some preperations to the secondary domain controller for letting it be completely functional.

The first domain controller has 7 virtual lan cards (multi homed). Do I first have to add the same virtual cards to the secondary domain controller and add the dhcp ranges or do I only have to follow the staps according to add the secondary domain controller?

Thank you for your help!

Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified

September 3, 2013, 9:55 am

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We have Windows 2012 Server hosting 2 VMs - Domain Controller & RDS.  We have been doing Windows Server Backup incremental and have an ongoing issue with scheduled backups each night.  The backup shows completed with warnings and generates 2 log files.

The first log files shows:  

Backup of volume \\?\Volume{5d46f853-5db2-11e2-93e7-806e6f6e6963}\ succeeded.

Backup of volume C: succeeded.

Backup of volume F: succeeded.

Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: ACBCD71E-A8CA-4672-B951-52C1BE8444BE
   Caption     : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLRDS1
   Logical Path: 


Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: Host Component
   Caption     : Host Component
   Logical Path: 

The 2nd log file more often than not shows:  

Backup of volume E: has failed. Backup failed as shadow copy on source volume got deleted. This might caused by high write activity on the volume. Please retry the backup. If the issue persists consider increasing shadow copy storage using 'VSSADMIN Resize ShadowStorage' command.

Error in backup of E:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: 2B4A9541-C88B-442E-9A7A-6D8A27342C11
   Caption     : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLDC1
   Logical Path: 
   Error           : 8078010D
   Error Message   : Enumeration of the files failed.

   Detailed Error  : 80070003
   Detailed Error Message : (null)

We had been getting a successful backup once or twice a week which showed completed (with no mentioned of warnings) but now it regularly shows completed with warnings as noted above.  

We did a manual full backup of the DC to a different external drive a few days ago and that completed without warnings and the backup shows:  E: Completed 63.38 Full - VSS Copy Backup Successful, 8/27/13 3:35 PM - 4:43 PM. Data Transferred 63.38

On a side note, we can view the logs in the windows/logs/windowsserverbackup directory but when we attempt to view the details of a log file through the Local Backup Console for any log which shows completed with errors, we get a "MMC has detected an error in the snapin and will unload and then it shows Object referenced not set to instance of an object."  The manual backup noted above that was successful is able to be viewed through the Local Backup Console without this error.  

Any idea as to why this is failing during the scheduled backups?  This hosts a database that we need to have regular successful backups.

Restoring file from Differential (wbadmin.exe)

December 7, 2015, 9:00 am

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Hi There,

I've just starting tinkering with wbadmin.exe and the system imaging system. So far I've been able to get backups running on a schedule and I've managed to create different restore points using the in-built differential system. I've also had a test "bare metal" restore onto a blank HDD and this worked well.

The one part I'm struggling with is figuring out how to manipulate the backup images - specifically in performing partial restores. I've been able to mount the vhd/x file from the backup using diskpart and view the files on the latest backup but how do I go about restoring from one of the older system images? Say I discover that a file corrupted 2 days ago and I want to restore it one of the earlier differentials, how would I get the older copy of the file? Would I have to do a full restore of the whole system image to another disk?

Cheers,

Olly

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Win Server 2012 - Windows Backup. Backup of volume D: has failed. The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.

December 7, 2015, 5:06 pm

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Hello guys

First post ever here! Hopefully someone here can help

I am running Windows Server scheduled backups from a Hyper-V Physical Host which is backing up the Physical Drive

I have 2 external 1.8TB Hard drives which just plug via USB into the physical host and it backs up over night

Backup Hard Drive 01 works fine - and it is backing up without a problem, however Hard Drive 02 is failing constantly

I have run a scan on Hard Drive 02 and there are no errors, this is the vent viewer log:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          2/12/2015 5:17:28 PM
Event ID:      517
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      MCEC-HV1
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎12‎-‎02T06:00:06.277088800Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800C5' (There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.). 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>517</EventID>
    <Version>1</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-12-02T06:17:28.601253900Z" />
    <EventRecordID>20615</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="236" ThreadID="4556" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>MCEC-HV1</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2015-12-02T06:00:06.277088800Z</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorCode">0x807800c5</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348165</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

I am not sure what else is going on, I thought it may have been a bad backup drive but I tested it and its not finding any errors

backup Drive 01 is working fine

WBadmin failing System state :error 517

December 7, 2015, 6:36 pm

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HI All,

Need a help from anyone who might have faced issue with system state backup using wbadmin.The issue occurs only with sysytem state ,the normal data drive gets backed up without any issues.

Details:OS: WINDOWS 2008 R2 ENT;APP: SQL SERVER 2008 R2 sp1

Issue: We have a sql server running on w2k8 r2 sp1 and have been in prod since last 3 years.Recently we started to get error while backing up system state on the server using wbadmin.Nothing is logged in wbadmin log files which are completely empty but followng events get genearted on the server duirng failure.event id 517.

event id: 517: 

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎12‎-‎07T04:47:54.255915200Z' has failed with following error code '2155347997' (The operation ended before completion.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Tried to restart the server multiple times ,restarted crypto services,VSS but no avail.all old shadows were cleared too.

While running wbadmin via command,it seems to be using another drive while taking system state.Not able to figure out how its taking a data drive also for sysytem state.(J:) in this case.the destination drive has enough space to accomdate system state backup and c:\ drive.

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

Starting to back up the system state [12/7/2015 9:28 PM]...
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up the system state from volume(s) System Reserved (100.00 MB),Data(J:),SYSVOL(C:) to K:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y

Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Please wait while system state files to back up are identified.
This might take several minutes...
Summary of the backup operation:
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The backup of the system state failed [12/7/2015 9:30 PM].
Log of files successfully backed up:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-07-12-2015_21-29-00.log

Log of files for which backup failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-07-12-2015_21-29-00.log

The operation ended before completion.
The system cannot find the file specified.

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