Start-WBHyperVRecovery : The specified backup storage location is invalid.

February 12, 2019, 3:43 am

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Hi everyone,

I made a backup of a VM on one Hyper-V host. Now I try to restore it on another using Powershell:

$VMName = 'myVM'
$volumeName = 'myVM_bak'
$MachineName = 'host1'
$TargetPath = 'E:\HV'

$WBVolume = Get-WBVolume -AllVolumes | ? {$_.VolumeLabel -eq $volumeName}
$WBBackupTarget = New-WBBackupTarget -Volume $WBVolume
$WBBackupSet = Get-WBBackupSet -BackupTarget $WBBackupTarget -MachineName $MachineName | Select-Object -Last 1
$WBVirtualMachines = ($WBBackupSet.Application | ? Identifier -eq 'HyperV').Component | ? VMName -eq $VMName 
Start-WBHyperVRecovery -BackupSet $WBBackupSet -VMInBackup $WBVirtualMachines -Force -UseAlternateLocation -TargetPath $TargetPath -RecreatePath

I get an error "<g class="gr_ gr_19 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_hide gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style multiReplace replaceWithoutSep replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="19" id="19">Start-WBHyperVRecovery </g><g class="gr_ gr_18 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="18" id="18"><g class="gr_ gr_19 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_hide gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace replaceWithoutSep replaceWithoutSep" data-gr-id="19" id="19">:</g>The</g> specified backup storage location is invalid."

I can restore the VM using Windows Server Backup UI without any problem. But I need to restore the VM every day.

The both Hyper-V servers are Windows Server 2012 R2

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February 13, 2019, 4:40 am

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January 29, 2019, 9:57 am

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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 credentials. But if I select the Automatic Schedule backup it will ask me for credentials and I use the backup operator credentials. It allows me to go to the final step and then it fails with an error "This is an invalid location." I'm like I just did a backup manually, why is it failing when I want to schedule automatic backups.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what could be causing this?

Later on today I will be scrutinizing logs to see if I can find any errors or warnings that may suggest the reason for the error. I have a couple of places that I will be checking.

Thanks,

PB

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February 13, 2019, 1:57 pm

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I have an old computer T410 Windows 7 enterprise system that I'd like to use.  It was from a previous employer that never took it when they upgraded me.  I have no idea how to re-image it...help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

windows server 2003 standard r2 sp2 unable to restore system state backup

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Hi,

we had one windows server 2003 installed on hp proliant dl380 g5 server and it is working from the last 11 years. 2 months before all of a sudden the server crash due to hard drive failure. we purchase new hard drive and installed server 2003 on it. After Installation we restore one of the backups already taken before hardware failure but unfortunately system unable to boot after restoring the full backup. To check where issue lies with any backup set I restore drive backup & system state backup one by one. drive backup successfully restored and reboot properly without any problem but when we restore system state backup upon reboot server fail to start and give hal.dll corrupt or missing error.

I try to copy hal.dll file from server 2003 cd but it gives same hal.dll missing error once file copied successfully. 

To go into more investigation, I came to know that hal.dll and ntoskrnl files are different in new installation & backup copy. In trying to resolve the issue, I manually copy the hal.dll and ntoskrnl from backup and put it on new installation but that also did not fix the issue and gives the same hal.dll error.

Kindly recommend if above issues lies with any hard drive because as I mention we install new hard drives and those are not identical to the one installed before. below are the details of hard drives

Old hard drive (1 port 10k serial scsi 146 GB spare 432320-001) -- 2 hard drives --

new hard drive (dual port 10k SAS 146 GB spare 418399-001)  -- 2 hard drives --

server is (HP Proliant dl380 g5)

Old hal.dll file name (hal.dll)  version (5.2.3790.3959)

new hal.dll file name (halmacpi.dll) version (5.2.3790.3959)  -- try to copy old hal file but gives hal.dll missing or corrupt error --

old ntoskrnl.exe file name (ntkrnlmp.exe)  version (5.2.3790.4478)

new ntoskrnl.exe file name (ntkrnlmp.exe) version (5.2.3790.3959)

Last thing to add also in our old scenario there are three hard drive installed but that time 2 are functional and one is dead. In New scenario, there are 2 hard drives.

I am out of options right now. Kindly recommend any solution. If you need more detail kindly let me know.

windows server 2003 standard r2 sp2 unable to restore system state backup

February 14, 2019, 2:27 am

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Hi,

we had one windows server 2003 installed on hp proliant dl380 g5 server and it is working from the last 11 years. 2 months before all of a sudden the server crash due to hard drive failure. we purchase new hard drive and installed server 2003 on it. After Installation we restore one of the backups already taken before hardware failure but unfortunately system unable to boot after restoring the full backup. To check where issue lies with any backup set I restore drive backup & system state backup one by one. drive backup successfully restored and reboot properly without any problem but when we restore system state backup upon reboot server fail to start and give hal.dll corrupt or missing error.

I try to copy hal.dll file from server 2003 cd but it gives same hal.dll missing error once file copied successfully. 

To go into more investigation, I came to know that hal.dll and ntoskrnl files are different in new installation & backup copy. In trying to resolve the issue, I manually copy the hal.dll and ntoskrnl from backup and put it on new installation but that also did not fix the issue and gives the same hal.dll error.

Kindly recommend if above issues lies with any hard drive because as I mention we install new hard drives and those are not identical to the one installed before. below are the details of hard drives

Old hard drive (1 port 10k serial scsi 146 GB spare 432320-001) -- 2 hard drives --

new hard drive (dual port 10k SAS 146 GB spare 418399-001)  -- 2 hard drives --

server is (HP Proliant dl380 g5)

Old hal.dll file name (hal.dll)  version (5.2.3790.3959)

new hal.dll file name (halmacpi.dll) version (5.2.3790.3959)  -- try to copy old hal file but gives hal.dll missing or corrupt error --

old ntoskrnl.exe file name (ntkrnlmp.exe)  version (5.2.3790.4478)

new ntoskrnl.exe file name (ntkrnlmp.exe) version (5.2.3790.3959)

Last thing to add also in our old scenario there are three hard drive installed but that time 2 are functional and one is dead. In New scenario, there are 2 hard drives.

I am out of options right now. Kindly recommend any solution. If you need more detail kindly let me know.

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Hi,

we had one windows server 2003 installed on hp proliant dl380 g5 server and it is working from the last 11 years. 2 months before all of a sudden the server crash due to hard drive failure. we purchase new hard drive and installed server 2003 on it. After Installation we restore one of the backups already taken before hardware failure but unfortunately system unable to boot after restoring the full backup. To check where issue lies with any backup set I restore drive backup & system state backup one by one. drive backup successfully restored and reboot properly without any problem but when we restore system state backup upon reboot server fail to start and give hal.dll corrupt or missing error.

I try to copy hal.dll file from server 2003 cd but it gives same hal.dll missing error once file copied successfully. 

To go into more investigation, I came to know that hal.dll and ntoskrnl files are different in new installation & backup copy. In trying to resolve the issue, I manually copy the hal.dll and ntoskrnl from backup and put it on new installation but that also did not fix the issue and gives the same hal.dll error.

Kindly recommend if above issues lies with any hard drive because as I mention we install new hard drives and those are not identical to the one installed before. below are the details of hard drives

Old hard drive (1 port 10k serial scsi 146 GB spare 432320-001) -- 2 hard drives --

new hard drive (dual port 10k SAS 146 GB spare 418399-001)  -- 2 hard drives --

server is (HP Proliant dl380 g5)

Old hal.dll file name (hal.dll)  version (5.2.3790.3959)

new hal.dll file name (halmacpi.dll) version (5.2.3790.3959)  -- try to copy old hal file but gives hal.dll missing or corrupt error --

old ntoskrnl.exe file name (ntkrnlmp.exe)  version (5.2.3790.4478)

new ntoskrnl.exe file name (ntkrnlmp.exe) version (5.2.3790.3959)

Last thing to add also in our old scenario there are three hard drive installed but that time 2 are functional and one is dead. In New scenario, there are 2 hard drives.

I am out of options right now. Kindly recommend any solution. If you need more detail kindly let me know.

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January 28, 2019, 11:28 pm

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I have a migrated Windows Server Enterprise 2008 SP2 32 bit Virtual Machine running on Azure now. I need to do the backup of this machine. What's the ebst solution? Also, does MARS support such machine for files and folders backup?

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February 15, 2019, 11:28 am

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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 controllers are virtual. I had virtual team create a virtual drive and mount it to one of the domain controllers. Installed "Windows Server Backup" and have successful backups and alerting through PowerShell but now I am wanting to know whet would the most effective way to restore the server should it go down? 

The company wants to go the Windows Backup route so installing 3rd Party Software isn't going to work in this case. 

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What's the procedure going forward for performing client backup and restore?

This is available now in Server 2016 Essentials and Server by installing the essentials role.  This is no longer available in Server 2019. 

How do I go about doing this?

To be clear, I don't mean a snapshot full backup, so Windows 7 image backup isn't the answer to the question.

It's more like: how do you do efficient, automated, incremental backups on say a dozen clients in a way that you can bare-metal restore those clients?

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February 18, 2019, 12:40 am

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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

*--------------------------------*

or file with this text:

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It seems that the backup has been made without errors. So why backup create error file ?

THX

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Hey everybody,

We've seen this behavior in two of our virtual servers. Seemingly every few weeks I'll get an alert from our monitoring system that our servers volumes are low on space. The culprit is always shadow copies on the server. I set limits on the shadow copies through the volume properties but it seems the settings revert back to no limit after a random amount of time.

ESXi version 6.0.0

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - Running a SQL Express server

Windows Server 2016 Standard - Domain controller

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Hi,

We have Windows Server 2012 R2 Server. This server contains Active Directory, DNS and Exchange Server 2010. We are taking a daily backup of System State using "Windows Server Backup". Sometimes the backup size for System State backup is appr. 12GB, while sometimes it reduces to 500MB or less. Why is this huge difference. Is there something we are missing in System State Backup? I'm always selecting VSS Full Backup.

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Hey everybody,

We've seen this behavior in two of our virtual servers. Seemingly every few weeks I'll get an alert from our monitoring system that our servers volumes are low on space. The culprit is always shadow copies on the server. I set limits on the shadow copies through the volume properties but it seems the settings revert back to no limit after a random amount of time.

ESXi version 6.0.0

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - Running a SQL Express server

Windows Server 2016 Standard - Domain controller

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September 26, 2018, 5:40 am

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Hello,

      We have been having an issue for the last week with our Windows Server Backup failing on our Windows Server 2016 Essentials server.  It is failing with the application event ID 517.  The backup operation has failed with the following error code '0x807800AF' (The Volume Shadow Copy Service backup complete operation failed.  The backup backs up the EFI System partition, local disk with all the data, Bare metal recovery, but fails on the System state.  It says the Backup canceled.  System state backup was canceled.

The error in the windows server backup software is the Volume Shadow Copy Service backup complete operation failed.  A volume shadow copy service component encountered an unexpected error.

The server has been rebooted and we will get one working backup but the issue returns the following day. 

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(1) I am using window server 2008 r2 standard so in this server RAM memory not detected by machine and showing only 4 GB usable of 8 GB. I want to setup new server Window server 2016 so please help anyone what to do? can I backup all data and configuration of window server 2008 r2 standard and restore in Window server 2016? Is It possible to transfer all configuration and setup of Window server 2008 r2 standard to Window server 2016?

Please suggest anyone,

Thanks..!!!

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First time poster but I can not for the life of me find the answer to my question. 

I am attempting to take all the log files from Windows Server backup and get them into a format that I can add to our SQL database.

Any help on how to do this would be great. 

I need a way to do it for Server 2008 and 2016 if possible. 

Thank you in advance.

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Hi Guys,

Normally when we do an authoritative restore, we open the Command prompt and perform the following steps

Ntdsutil > Activate instance NTDS > Authoritative restore

Now most of the forums say the command is "restore database", but when I tried it on 2012 and 2016 server, it says the that "Error parsing Input - Invalid Syntax"

It does not list the command in the help section as well.

Regards,
Edward.

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First time poster but I can not for the life of me find the answer to my question. 

I am attempting to take all the log files from Windows Server backup and get them into a format that I can add to our SQL database.

Any help on how to do this would be great. 

I need a way to do it for Server 2008 and 2016 if possible. 

Thank you in advance.

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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 (F:).  The WindowsImageBackup folder on the external USB disk is deleted and re-created during each server backup (so there is only only backup in the WindowsImageBackup folder).

   The question is about the restore process:  Can I mount the F:\WindowsImageBackup\ .vhd file, then mount the .vhdx file from the specific backed-up VM and copy files out?  Will the restored files be rehydrated (with all of the deduplicated data) so that I could copy these files to a new volume?

   In case that last paragraph requires explanation, I'd like to be able to mount F:\WindowsImageBackup\...\...vhd to Z: and see "Z:\Hyper-V\DC\Virtual Hard Disks\DC.vhdx" and mount that drive as Y:.  Then I'd like to copy Y:\files\office.docx" (a file within the DC VM) to a non-deduplicated volume and make sure that the data integrity is good.  I follow this process on servers that don't have deduplication enabled and it works great on those servers.  

   Part of my question deals with wondering where the deduplication pointers are stored on the backup USB Disk.  Are they on the F: NTFS volume or within the .vhd file on that backup USB disk?

   Any insight into this would be most helpful!  Thanks so much!

Dave