In server 2008, when trying to take a full server backup, the error message "catastrophic failure Detailed error: The data area passed to a system call is too small"
Please can anyone help with this issue ?
Kind Regards
Backups "Catastrophic Failure, Data Area Passed"
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Recover photo file I deleted
Please help me recover a photo file I deleted from the photo library.
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How do you reset Windows 8.1 to a specific date?
I need to recover deleted photo files on Sony Vaio Windows 8.1.
Can I restart the computer to its settings by a given date?
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VSS Error
Hi All
I'm troubleshooting these VSS alerts we're getting on the server (https://www.storagecraft.com/support/kb/article/32)
While issuing the command "vssadmin list shadows" i'm getting this result "No items found that satisfy the query"
Here are the additional details:
Server OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
Backup Software: ShadowProtect
I already checked the System Volume Information and it's present in the root directory.
TIA
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Specify Remote Folder - The specified path is not a remote shared folder
I'm getting this error when I try to check a backup stored on a NAS. When I attempt to recover from it, I pick "A backup stored on another location" then "Remote shared folder".
I put in the path: \\192.168.16.17\public\server\2014-01-24
And what I get is the above error message: "The specified path is not a remote shared folder"
The path clearly is a remote shared folder. If I paste it into explorer it opens fine, and I can copy/delete files from it. What gives?
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Windows Server 2012 Restore "Scanning for System Image disks" takes a long time
A Dell T110 II Server with a pair of freshly installed and initialised SAS RAID 0 disks had to be restored from Windows Backup image stored on an external HDD.
The "Scanning for System Image disks.." process took a very long time. Two backup disks were tried (both in Vantec USB3 enclosures attached to the T110 USB2.0 ports) and both exhibited the same behaviour. Ultimately one backup disk was transferred into an eSATA enclosure and the "Scanning..." process took in the order of 1 hour or more to complete.
This is an undesirable delay which I would like to avoid in the future. Can anyone explain why the scanning process takes so long? I am only expecting the restore process to need to locate the \WindowsImageBackup\(server)\ directory and identify the requisite files there. My first guess is that the entire backup set is being read off disk for some reason - based on the length of time taken being commensurate with the size of the backup set and an average of 100MB/s disk read speed,
I have previously performed a bare-metal restore on an Intel Server/Windows 2008 R2 system with the backup image stored on an installed SATA disk and don't recall experiencing any significant delay in locating the backup image.
These backup disks are 512-byte sector disks. Is it something to do with the way they are formatted? Or could it be something else entirely (the "empty" virtual disk volume in the Dell? What else could it possibly be?).
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How to Recover data with Windows Backup GUI?
- Have a Hyper-V Host (Server Core) that I want to backup to a locally attached USB Disk.
- Have a 2012 R2 management server where I have installed the Windows Backup feature as well.
Although it's not possible to connect to the remote Hyper-V host from the Windows Backup GUI directly (very strange and I can not understand this), it's possible to launch "Computer Management", connect to the remote Hyper-V host, and then launch the Windows Backup GUI from inside the computer management.
Can successfully configure and monitor the Windows Server Backup jobs this way. However, when I try to recover anything from the Hyper-V Host to an alternate location, absolutely no recovery destination is accepted. Have tried a path on the management server, as well as on the Hyper-V host, but always getting the following error:
How can I recover anything from the Hyper-V host from the Windows Backup GUI? Recover data directly on the Hyper-V host with wbadmin.exe or any scripts is much too complicated for our service desk employees.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Franz
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Can't backup on WD 'My Passport Ultra'
Hello:
I bought 5-1TB Ultra Passports about 3 months ago. The USB Ultra drives are now full and will not backup. I tried to format one and 2008 Server R2 <g class="gr_ gr_289 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_run_anim Punctuation multiReplace" data-gr-id="289" id="289">still</g> says the drive is full even though windows says it has 900GB free. I want it to roll off the oldest backup and then put the newer one on the Ultra. But can't find how to do that either. I'm using the 'Windows Server Backup' software that came with the server. I really need help ASAP. No backups for 5 days and I've given up trying to figure it out on my own.
Kevin
Kevin R. Miller
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Server 2016 Backup Fails
I have a Windows Server 2016 host server that has virtual machines on it.
Whenever I try to backup the virtual machines, the backup job fails. I tried to backup the Hyper-V vm's and the individual files, both types failed.
In the event viewer I'm getting this;
The backup operation that started at '2016-11-08T14:07:10.577950600Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780049' (None of the items included in backup were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
and this;
Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object.
Details:
AddLegacyDriverFiles: Unable to back up image of binary Microsoft Link-Layer Discovery Protocol.
System Error:
Access is denied.
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DJ
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WSB My daily backups are too large - Server copies too much per day
Hello everybody,
since a couple of years now, I am backing up my 2008 R2 Server (DC and fileserver) with Microsoft Windows Server backup. For this task I am using five external USB HDDs (2TB). My server contains a 120 GB system drive and a 2 TB volume for storing data of
our fileserver as well as different backups from other servers. My data drive is relatively full. I have about 900 GB of data stored, 800 GB free. So on my 2TB destination drives, the first full backup only uses about 1,2 TB of space. The rest, 800 GB, should
be availavble for the smaller incremental backups (I know it's not a real incremental backup because of VSS, but WSB also calls it incremental)
I am backing up daily and this worked perfectly fine for years. I always had about 50 to 80 backups available because the daily rate of change was always relatively small. The first time WSB backs up all the data, and the following ones, it only copied a very small ammount (the changed data), which was maybe 5 or 6 GB at most. This is also the maximum amount of data changed per day. The fileserver with userdata changes at most 1GB, the rest are smaller backups, coming from other servers.
Since some time now, I have a problem with this. Windows Server Backup copies too much data per day. Sometimes "only" 30GB but some times also 60GB or 90 GB. This can never be the ammount of changed data. Because of that, the 2TB destination drive can only store about 5-8 backups, instead of much more as before.
Because I can not see, which files are really copied, I can't find where the problem is. I first thought it has something to do with our DFSR fileserver. But WSB does not back up the staging, conflicts and dfsrprivate folders by default (registry key "FilesNotToBackup").
I did a simple file based search in the explorer, searching for files which changed the last day. The results are as expected only about 3 GB big.
I already deleted my backup schedule completely, recreated it from scratch and also formatted all my drives in this step, so it is totally clean. But I have the same problem. The last 4 days, I had the same destination drive connected. First day, full backup all data, next day 40gb, next day 99gb.
I do not know what I can do.
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Server 2012R2 backup
i was taking backups on an external HD. i copied the files using robocopy to another device and the backups are not recognized. any ideas why? i retained the permissions and all files.
Thank you,
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Active Directory backup using WBADMIN
Hi Team,
please tell me which is best for backup and restore in active directory.
in WBADMIN
START BACKUP
or
START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP
which is best?
Regards, Pradhap P
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Can I run sysprep.exe on a Wbadmin Created Backup Image (from Windows Server Backup)
Can you run sysprep.exe on a Windows Image Backup that was created from the Windows Server Backup Role? I am interested to extract all of the drivers out of the backup image, does anyone know how to do so?
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VSS System Writer - Inconsistent shadow copy
I have tried searching for answers to my specific issue but could not find any resolution so posting a question.
I see a Inconsistent shadow copy in VSS for System Writer when doing vssadmin list writers.
When taking a scheduled server backup (Windows Server 2012 R2), I see the following in Event logs (one for VSS and one for SPP source).
It was working fine all these years until I started mucking around with deleting backups. Here's what I think triggered these errors. I noticed that my backup folder was growing in size (more than twice the volume that I am backing up) and I saw that I had lots of old backups (25+), so I used wssadmin delete backup command to start deleting specific versions and when I got tired of doing it one by one, I did a wssadmin delete backup -keepVersions:5 or some number. After these steps, subsequent backups I started noticing these errors and now I cannot take a backup without these errors/warnings.
I tried searching for these errors but I could not get to solving my issue. I am not clear on why I have an inconsistent shadow copy or which volume/filename/directory name or volume label is being referred to in the event log errors.
Can someone please help me get rid of this error? Now I am worried that my backups are not going to be good anymore.
Thanks for your help.
| GetVolumePathName is fail on the path , winerror 0x0000007b. |
| 0x8007007b, The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. |
| Operation: PrepareForSnapshot Event Context: Execution Context: Writer Writer Class Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} Writer Name: System Writer Writer Instance ID: {79850a1a-024f-442e-a9c0-007d7c7031c7} |
| System Writer |
| The shadow-copy set only contains only a subset of the volumes needed to correctly backup the selected components of the writer. (0x800423F0) |
| 01000000B8120000991200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000 |
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Azure backup add-in is not working
I've a fresh install Server 2012 R2 with the Azure Backup (Files and Folders) that I'm trying. I've selected one of my ServerFolders to backup and when I start the backup it is unsuccessful. I've done this 3 times and it fails every time.
The Job Error says "unknown error" and the link to 'Manage Online Backup in Windows Server Essentials' doesn't provide me any help... I've installed the add-in with the default settings, so I've not changed anything and I can find no reference of the error code 86CA.
I've trying asking this question in the Azure Backup forum but a mod (Vikranth S.) pointed me to this forum, which I think is in correct.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thank you.
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Windows SBS 2k11 Server backup error when adding a new drive
Hello, I can't seem to add a new drive to Windows Server Backup in SBS2k11. I checked the disk it's a Buffalo with 512 byte sectors and 4096 Physical sectors which it sounds like means it is 512e. As far as I can tell it should be compatible
from what I've read online. I've tried adding it through WBADMIN, through the sbs console, and through the windows server backup app. No luck. Backup will also not let me remove older offline disks. I'm currently not getting backups
any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Windows Server 2016 Backup fails
About two weeks ago my backup stopped working on my Hyper-V host using Windows Server backup. The backup Windows show no backups, and the logs just state that the backup engine stopped. If I try to run a manual backup it fails with the message below.
Log Name: ApplicationSource: Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date: 11/23/2016 2:14:58 PM
Event ID: 517
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: HV01.mydomain.com
Description:
The backup operation that started at '2016-11-23T19:14:40.963061600Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780102' (The system writer is not found in the backup.). 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="2016-11-23T19:14:58.586401600Z" />
<EventRecordID>1230</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="3904" ThreadID="5192" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer></Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BackupTime">2016-11-23T19:14:40.963061600Z</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">0x80780102</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348226</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
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Windows Server 2012 Backup fatal error
Windows Server 2012 can't take backups but gives a fatal error. With Local Backup I get the message:
A fatal error occured during Windows Server Backup snap-in (Wbadmin.msc) operation.
Error details: Server execution failed.
Close Wbadmin and then restart it.
I'd like to know, what it the problem, how could I solve it and is there any more detailed information I could give?
Nikorios
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Windows Server 2008r2 System state recovery fails
I have been trying to do a system state recovery but our system keeps locking up at about 50%. I tried it twice and both times the server locks up and i have to manually shut down. I am of the opionion that it is not windows but rather a hardware issue. We have been experiencing major system freezes the past month. I have performed memory and hard disk scan which come back clean. I have also ran malware and anti-virus scans which also do not produce any issues.
I'd appreciate any detailed steps to resolve this matter.
Linda Croke
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"There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set."
WS2012 R2 Hyper-V host fully patched. Server is backed up nightly to USB disks via WSB.
Backups worked flawlessly for many months. Then a recurring problem started a few months ago. Took a while, but I've found a pattern that leads me to suspect a WSB database problem.
The backup will work for 2-4 weeks. Then backups start failing with these messages:
- Drive F: (VHDX files): "The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation."
- System State: "There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set. Detailed error: The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation."
Thereafter, all backups to that disk will fail with those 2 errors until the disk is removed as a backup destination and re-added (with format). Then the cycle repeats: Works 2-4 weeks, then won't work until the disk is set up as a new backup destination.
This happened with multiple disks, but just to make sure I didn't have multiple disk failures, I bought a new disk, which worked perfectly for 3.5 weeks. The failures began last night.
I think this rules out a problem with the source disk, because it's the destination disk format that always fixes it. For that matter, the source disk is mirrored and Dell OMSA doesn't detect any problems. But I also don't believe I have 4 failing USB disks, including one that's a month old. And that's why I think it's the database.
If that all seems reasonable, is there a way to rebuild the database from the USB disks? Or if necessary, delete it and let WSB start over from scratch?
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