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Looks like the backup job duration is the same when running backup for the first time and every subsequent time. I thought Win2008R2 does incremental backup when destination is a iSCSI target. I am backing up a Hyper-V server with bunch of VMs, and the backup duration is about 6 hours to a iSCSI target running on a Gigabit connection and this makes me think that there is no incremental backup being done.

Someone please help me understand why this is happening.

Thanks,

Shuja

I have a 2012R2 Essentials machine I used to replace our 2008R2 Home Server some years ago. I attempted to install an A/V and it crashed and locked everything up. (Thanks Symantec) I've tried every which way I know to restore and learned a lot about wbadmin. (as a side note, deduplication can't be read on a windows 10 machine. You must have another server with the feature turned on. Otherwise, prepare for the long wait while the drive "rehydrates" start dedupjob...I digress)

At the moment, I've copied the HDD to a vhd as to not loose the original. I've installed a fresh copy of the essentials server and I'm attempting to restore. I see 5+ copies in Windows Server Backup. I select the date and time, the two volumes I want restored and the location on the exactly sized vhd to put them. When I hit restore I get "Windows Backup cannot find a shadow copy of the backup set on the storage location."

The backup drive was new, never touched when I began using it for backups. It has sat on the server for at least a year now with no changes. When attempting to bare metal restore, the backups can't be found. Wbadmin can't find the versions until I wbadmin restore catalog -backuptarget:d: Someone please help. I stand to possibly lose a decade of family pictures and home movies without restoration. This was the backup for the backup as it has been reliable for years...

Hi,

We cant backup Server 2012 R2 in failover cluster but standalone server 2012 R2 can be backup without any problem.

We are using Netbackup 7.7 to backup data.

Our envrionment is configured at below

Netbackup Master/Media Server: 2008 R2, Netbackup 7.7.1
Failover Cluster: Windows 2008 R2
All our servers are 2008 R2

We create new test cluster with Server 2012 R2 to see if we can backup but we cant in server 2012 R2 is in cluster but if its standalone server it all works fine.

Thank you

I was regularly taking back up of a local drive/disk of windows 2012 file server in external hard disk with the help of windows backup and restore utility. One day my server by which I was taking the back up crashed. Fortunately I'd another file server of same configuration running windows 2012 server but when I'm trying to restore the backed up data on my external hard disk to the new server, the restoration wizard doesn't move further at step where we can expand the backup image and select files and folder to restore. There's no error but the Next button is not highlighting here. What's d advantage of taking the backup if we can't restore the backed up data by another server having same hardware and software configuration. Please help .