Easy Server 2012 backup solutions with tape support?

July 19, 2013, 1:29 am

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We have several smaller to midsized customers that have invested money in tape drives and tapes. They are using Symantec BackupExec on Server 2003 / 2008 and 2008 R2. Unfortunately, Symantec postponed Server 2012 support in their products many times already. This fact costs us many business opportunities to upgrade infrastructures to Server 2012.

DPM 2012 is good for larger customers, but less suited for smaller companies (and the DPM "philosophy change" of the backup procedures, compared to older tape based backup solutions is an obstacle as well.)

So we are looking for EASY backup solutions that support tape drives and server 2012. The "perfect" product for us would be just a tape driver and an extension to the integrated Windows Server Backup that would allow to store backups on tapes, the same way that Windows Backup allows backups to network shared folders.

Does anyone knows EASY backup software that provides this functionality? I'm also very interested in feedback from peoples that have successfully used such products on Server 2012 and are satisfied with them.

Thank you all in advance for any help.

Franz

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Hyper-V-VMMS ID:10111

July 26, 2013, 3:22 am

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Hi,

I have a problem during my backup since i have add to my cluster hyper-v a VM with 32Go of RAM. Each host (hypervisor) has 80Go of RAM but when this backup is running, host memory is 40Go (host1) and 64Go (host2 who host this VM with 32Go of RAM).

If this VM are running during the backup, hypervisor who host this VM has an error Hyper-V VMMS (Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS, ID:10111) in log file and my backup doesn't work successful.

For information, this VM haven't in the backup rule. It's a VM just for calcul and doesn't backup this.

On technet forum i have found the same problem but i don't test the rosenstc's answer (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ace96e27-53b7-433a-b646-8e397372e642/30112-vss-error-event-id-10111-failed-to-mount-the-virtual-hard-disk).
Before test, i prefer have a return for not install a bad solution.

Best regard,
Cédric BERGOUGNOUX

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Does Server 2008 do Incremental?

July 26, 2013, 1:35 pm

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I am testing server 2008 backup, the original not R2.

I remember that I scheduled a backup and it seems to be running successfully each night .I think the only option was to back up the entire volume.

I cant however see the contents of the backup as the drive is taken away from windows explorer. So I cant see what is being backed up each night.

Does server 2k8 do a full backup 1st and then smaller backups thereafter or does it backup the entire 20 gb + OS again and again every night? Will it then quickly fill up the hard drive? 5 backups would then be 100GB!!

How can I check this information? I can only see that the backup has been successful and nothing more.

Thanks

Confuseis

confuseis

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How to restore Active directory 2008 on a stand alone server

July 29, 2013, 1:15 am

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Hello every one

Sadlly, my domain controllers are down due to hardware problems and cannot become operational anymore, so I have to restore AD on two new servers.

I have a back from last DC made by Windows Server Backup.

Please tell me how I can restore the back on a stand alone server. I tried to restore the backup on a domain server but it was not successful and none of services and directories restored.

Thank you.

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Windows 2008 R2 Backup Restore Issue , Please help it out ...

July 30, 2013, 2:01 am

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Dear Team,

I have one system on which windows 7 was installed. I made that machine as a dual boot and installed windows 2008 R2 on seperate partition. Then i took Full backup including Baremetal recovery option and place that backup image into different external drive.

Now my drives were like :

Local disk C: \ contains windows 7 , E:\ contains Windows 2008 R2 and G :\ Drive contains Data

External Disk H :\ contains Backup System image

What happened my local drive os got corrupted and i deleted all three partitions and made it Single Local drive.

Now when i am trying to restore complete OS ( By going repair option ) , the external drive is assigning itself partition letter as E:\. So i am not able restore my OS and getting error "Parameter is incorrect (0x80070057)"

Thanks and Regards,

Jatin Sachdeva

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windows server backup fails due to shadow copy space error

July 30, 2013, 12:51 am

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I want to create a backup by windows server backup tools, but I 'm getting the following error

"There is not enough space to create the volume shadow copy on the storage location"

I've checked services.msc and the process of VSS is running. and also configured the shadow copies it is enable and has 3048MB as maximum size.

what's wrong?

OS= windows server 2008 R 2

virtualized by VMware vSphere 5.1 pakage (ESXi host and vCenter 5.1)

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Hyper-V Server Headache

July 29, 2013, 9:26 pm

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Dear All

At present, I am trying to get started on MSCA/MSCE training. My intention was to dowload a free Lab from:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/p/earlyexpertlabsetup.aspx#.Ufc8nt2Gmql

I had a few issues so decided to go for the 'Free Hyper-V Server 2012' download (big mistake as a beginner)

I followed the download, burn to DVD and install instructions and created a back up of my Windows 7 Ultimate OS

Destination is a Laptop PC with all of the spec requirements

After installatiuon of Hyper-V Server 2012, I noticed that Win7 OS had gone (overwritten/deleted?)

I have been, without success, trying re-install Win7 directly on the physical HD and also trying to battle my way through Server Core/PowerShell to try to create a new VHD/VHM to copy the Win7 to the Hyper-V OS too, also with no success

I've copied the Win7 OS to a USB drive and tried all boot settings in BIOS to boot in order from DVD-USB-Network-Hardrive, to no avail. It still only boots from the HD

I created a RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) from my Mac (only secondary computer I have) and have been able to control the Hyper-V from the desktop, but cannot install anything onto the Hyper-V Server

Actually, I've been scouring the internet and have spent 2 weeks trying to solve this problem (part baptism of fired, part embarrassment). I've called MS helpdesk, who were zero help, and told me to contact the manufacturer ONLY!

I would appreciate any advice on this matter, as I am completely at a loss what to do and it's soul destroying for my hope to be able to study MCSA/MCSE fails at the first step!!!!

Thanks in advance

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Error 0x80042306: The shadow copy provider had an error. Windows Server 2012 Standard

July 31, 2013, 5:57 am

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When trying to enable shadow copy for a storage pool on Windows Server 2012 I get the following error: Failed to create a shadow copy of volume (x). Error 0x80042306: The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information. In event viewer I get the event ID 12289. I need to backup our server, any suggestions on what to do.

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Microsoft DPM in Windows 2012 STK Library driver not found in Microsoft Update Catalog site

July 30, 2013, 9:37 am

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Hi,

I would like to use DPM with Windows 2012 in a Hyper-V VM with a dedicated Fibre Channel card attached to a Data Domain system configured in VTL mode.

In EMC Data Domain Matrix_application (Backup Compatibilty Guide, Data Domain, OS 5.2) on table 64 page 70, for Microsoft System Center Protection Manager 2012, I should find the following driver on the Microsoft Update Catalog : "Windows 2k12 x64 5.2.0.6 VTL L180: STKLIB/Native OS Y 1". (5.2.0.6 is the minimum Data Domain OS validated)

I only found for the StorageTek the drivers for the StorageTek L180 for Windows 2003 and Win 2008.

How can I get access to this specific version and download the following driver ?

Thank you very much,

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Should Windows Server Backups Be Encrypted?

July 29, 2013, 5:57 pm

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Hi Everyone,

I have a Windows 2012 server running Windows backup. The backup drives are frequently taken offsite but we are worried about someone accessing the backed up data if one of those USB backup drives gets stolen.

Questions:

1. Does Windows Server Backup 2012 natively support encrypting backups or will this take a "workaround" solution of using scheduled tasks to encrypt/decrypt the backups whenever they are read/written?

2. It appears that the backups/VHD files are already password protected and require admin access. What is the general consensus on encrypting backups? Is it standard and highly recommended practice to encrypt the backups? Is this normal among you admins out there are does it lean towards being excessive?

3. Have you admins heard of data being breached from someone hacking a VHD file from a stolen drive?

I greatly appreciate any feedback.

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Microsoft iscsi target is not being connect from second cluster node

July 31, 2013, 3:55 am

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Environment

Microsoft iSCSI software target version = 3.3.16567

OS = Windows 2008R2 Enterprise

Target A = two disks (2500 MB size) => Created for a Cluster

Scenario

I created a targets on single Microsoft iSCSI target. Make two disks in iSCSI Target. Target assigned to a cluster. Cluster has two nodes. Only one Cluster node is able to successfully connect to the target(via iSCSI initiator) and while one Cluster node is connected to the target, the other Cluster node is not able to connect to the iSCSI target. Below is a snap when the other Cluster node is trying to connect to the Target.

Any comment will be appreciated. Thanks. Zahid Haseeb.

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Windows Server 2008 R2 backup fails unless I remove file from Windows\winsxs\FileMaps

July 31, 2013, 7:29 pm

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I've read quite a number of articles on the backup failures associated with permissions, etc. associated with files in the \windows\winsxs\FileMaps directory. After trying them (including recommended patches) and finally locating a good troubleshooting email thread I moved all of the contents to a temp directory and then copied them back until the backup failed again. After a process of elimination I determined the single file creating the failure of the backup (failed starting 'System Writer') was due to the presence or error in the file:

C:\Windows\winsxs\FileMaps\programdata_microsoft_user_account_pictures_default_pictures_e70ab2484087f163.cdf-ms

Now I have successfully moved the user and programdata directories to my D: drive since I have a 120GB SSD and wish to keep C: storage to minimum. There are junction points to from C:\user and C:\programdata over to the D: directories physical paths and everything works perfectly with the exception of the backup. When I simply remove the file name shown above from the FileMaps directory the backup completes just fine. But I am worried that the absence of the file from the FileMaps directory could have an impact on the recovery of the backup image and just uncomfortable with the need to manually remove and replace this file for a backup to succeed.

The error info is shown:

Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object.

Details:
AddCoreCsiFiles : RtlConvertNtFilePathToWin32Path() failed.

System Error:
0xC0000039 (unresolvable).

- System

- Provider

   [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2
   [ Guid] {5bbca4a8-b209-48dc-a8c7-b23d3e5216fb}
   [ EventSourceName] Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2

- EventID 513

   [ Qualifiers] 0

   Version 0

   Level 2

   Task 0

   Opcode 0

   Keywords 0x8080000000000000

- TimeCreated

   [ SystemTime] 2013-08-01T00:47:59.646937600Z

   EventRecordID 1868

   Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 1092

[ ThreadID] 3152

Any help would be appreciated. Even if it is to say that removing and replacing the file for backups is OK.

-Scott

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Systemstate Restoration

August 1, 2013, 8:07 pm

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Hi,

Last month we have Patched one of our production server, after i have some application functionality issue. so that we have planned to restore the systemstate backup on before the patching date.

we have restored the systemstate backup successfully, but still last month installed patches are appearing in the View to patches installed console.

My question is -- We have restore the entire system drive or else i've missed anything?

Regards,

SreeM

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Windows 2012 Windows Backup!

August 1, 2013, 8:26 pm

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Hello,

I have below scenario and need the input how should I configured the backup here.

Windows 2012 Hyper V Host running one of the Windows 2012 workgroup system. Inside there are 2 Hyper-V server

1st is DC and 2nd is File server

Now I want to take the Windows backup of DC and File server from the Host server , which I have to run 2 Different backup one is Snapshot backup Monthly runs once and One is File level backup everyday.

Appreciate if you can let me know how should this Windows Backup can be archive. Or is there any other backup method available.

Thank you in advance!

With regards,

kalanke

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Shadow copies exist, but no previous versions listed anywhere

July 31, 2013, 1:53 pm

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This is going to sound a lot like many other VSS questions, but my VSS were working just fine for years and then they weren't.

We have had VSS on for years on our two main file servers. They are currently Server 2008r2 systems and we haven't been having any issues. Today one of our users says they can't get any previous versions. Lo and behold, neither can we.

The GUI for configuring Shadow copies reports that they have been collected for the last month and a half (2x/weekday). A "vssadmin list shadows" on the cmd-line gives us a big list as we would expect. However, trying to see previous versions on any system gives us a big, fat "There are no previous versions available".

The only entries in the system logs for VSS or VSSAudit going back two years are IDs 8224 (Idle Timeout). All systems have File and Print sharing bound to their local area connection. All systems have Administrative shares enabled. Most (if not all) the workstations that have looked for previous versions are Win7x64.

We have no idea how long this has been going on, but the systems have been up and essentially unchanged for 110 days. The only change at that last reboot was security patches.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks.

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Urgent: Windows Server 2008 Standard edition

August 2, 2013, 10:37 pm

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Hi,

FYI We are Microsoft Mediaroom Developer in IPTV industry. We're having a difficulty to do the recent Personal Server installation.

Our attention on this email is to activating Windows Server 2008 Standard edition, Retail (NOT volume license) edition. Where do we get the product keys for that?

As you all know, the MRPS 1.x license didn’t include the operating system; we had to install the OS (Win2008R2 Enterprise) and database (SQL2008 Enterprise) ourselves and then install the MRPS software on it. There was no specific hard-coded limitation on which build of the OS and database were in use.

MRPS 2.x requires me to merely activate the pre-installed OS (Win2008R2 Standard) and DB (SQL2008 Standard), and – according to the very specific documentation on this matter – the installed editions are Retail editions, which means Volume License keys and MSDN keys won’t work.

FYI we just called MSDN to confirm that it would include the correct keys, and they’re telling us that no, it won’t.

We need to ask Microsoft how we're supposed to get product keys that will work.

We can purchase Volume Licensing keys, which *will not work* in Retail editions software.
We can purchase MSDN, which gives us keys for Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition and/or WS2008 Web edition, both of which *will not work* in Standard edition software.
We cannot purchase WS2008 or SQL2008 Retail keys anymore, because they are *discontinued*.

So… What are we supposed to do??? It is a bit dilemma to us at this point. We need this personal server done as yesterday for our TV app testing.

Please advice what to do at this point.

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Server OS backup

August 4, 2013, 9:22 am

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Hi,

What is OS backup? Already I have taken my AD (Active Directory) backup. Is there anything else related to OS backup? We have Windows Server 2008 R2.

Please share your views.

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Delete backups taken on selected days, Server 2008

August 5, 2013, 11:23 am

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Hi, I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running the Windows Server Backup role. It takes a nightly backup of the system drive and the data drive and saves it to a large external drive attached to the server. Over the weekend, we had an extremely large amount of extraneous data show up on the data drive (800GB+) and that data was therefore included in the backups, nearly filling our backup drive. What, if anything, should I do to remove this extraneous data from our backup drive? I am completely comfortable losing the entire days' backup data, it does not have to be ONLY the garbage data removed. We have perfectly sized backups of the normal data from preceding days, and nothing was changed that we will be needing to roll back to.

Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? We have deleted the garbage data, so the backups should be fine going forward, but if it came down to the backup drive filling up and it automatically purging old jobs to make room, I would rather have the oldest backups available and not a bunch of garbage data. I also don't want to futz with setting up an entire new drive if this one fills up and the backup job stops running. Thanks for any input or advice!

Ryan Sage

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Windows Server Backup to remote share fails with error "The device is not ready"

August 4, 2013, 10:43 pm

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Hi,

I have a client who uses Windows Server Backup on a Server 2008 R2 installation. I have set up their backup to remote share on another server. Both servers seem to be fine but when the backup starts I get the error "The device is not ready".

Going through the event logs I found errors during the time of the backup:

Event ID 129. Source vhdmp - description for event id 129 cannot be found. The following information was included with the event: \Device\RaidPort1

Event ID 57. Source Ntfrs - The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.

Event ID 15. Source Disk - The device \Device\HardDisk1\DR4, is not ready for access yet.

(the above HardDisk1 doesn't exist. the server only has a single hard drive in it so I am not sure what this error is referring to)

Event ID 3. Source FilterManager - Filter Manager failed to attach to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolume6'. This volume will be unavailable for filtering until a reboot. The final status was 0xc03a001c.

Going through the Windows Backup event log I see the error below:

The backup operation that started at '‎2013‎-‎08‎-‎04T10:00:06.701517900Z' has failed with following error code '2155348041'

I had a search around and found the log files in C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup. In the log files I see the error:

Error in backup of C:\tempsys\audit\WD123.zip.0183 during write: Error [0x800700a1] The specified path is invalid.

This error occurs multiple times and refers to many different files and folders.

I have noticed that if I stop the backup schedule and delete the backup files then recreate the backup job the backup will run successfully for a night and then fail on subsequent backups. Because of this it doesn't seem like it is a hardware issue or else it would fail even after recreating the backup job.

I have searched the forums and found nothing that relates to my issue. the server is not a Hyper-V host or VM. Neither Backup Exec or AV are installed on the server. I have gone through the files/folders randomly and checked that the backup user has permissions on the files - they have all checked out fine. I am not backing up the System drive, just a folder on the C drive.

I am really at a loss to explain what is causing this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Server 2012 hyper-v backup freezing vm's

August 6, 2013, 3:33 pm

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If the host server is busy backing up (all vms show "backing up..." as status) and I copy a large amount of data to one of the VM's (a gb or more), all the VM's lock up.

while the vms are locked up I end the "Block level backup service" task and it takes a few minutes before the vm statuses stop showing "backing up..." and then the vm's start behaving normally again.

there are only 2 vm's running and another that is not running. all vm's have server 2012 standard. the running VM's are replicating also.

The disk queue for both the host's c drive and the drive where the vm's vhd's are located are not very high.

This happens when copying files to vm's with either fixed or dynamically expanding VHD's.

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