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How Do I backup Window Server Physical Host To Another Physical Host Using Window Server Backup

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Hi,

Can somebody give me steps or screenshot to backup window server 2012 physical host to another window server 2012 physical host using the default "window server backup" program. Before it was doing a daily backup in the evening from one host to another host, and on the second host, will say last backup was yesterdays date. Now it does not do that after I install the Backupassist software, which I think it canceled the default backup. The Backupassist technician can only help with their Backupassist software. Please let me know how to get back this backup. Thanks.

Jason Chang

Hawaii


Windows Server 2012 R2

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Hie, I removed hard drives from a HP server and put them into another HP server but it didn't read them. I then put them back to the initial HP server and are not reading again. What could be happening 

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.

Every other backup is failing with error -2147024662 (0x800700EA "More data is available")

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Good day,

I have run into a peculiar issue recently and was hoping to get some help.  Windows server backup is failing every other backup job.  The job in between is successful, but is run as a full backup.  This reduces the number of backups that can be stored on the USB disk and is not an acceptable work around.

OS is Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.

Here is what I have tried: 
Replaced the USB disks, no change
Ran a chkdsk on all disks.  They all come back clean and the event log also indicates they are clean
Deleted the backup job and recreated it, no change
Removed AV, no change

The issue appears to be the same as the one described in this post:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0b535721-bcf6-4a3c-9615-28f4b8d02feb/2012-essential-r2-backup-unsuccessfull-with-error-code-2147942634?forum=windowsbackup

I am out of ideas at this point and was hoping to get some help.  I have read a few posts online about this issue, but the only fix I found was to replace the USB disks.  I have done this with no change to the issue.


Volume Shadow Copy Service error:

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I have a problem and i cant fixed it, anyone can help me ?

This is the issue what i have:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        VSS
Date:          20-3-2019 06:44:56
Event ID:      8193
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxx.lan
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CreateFileW(\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1) - BuildLunInfoForDrive.  hr = 0x80070020, The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
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How can i solve this issue.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CreateFileW

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I have a problem and i cant fixed it, anyone can help me ?

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

This is the issue what i have:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        VSS
Date:          20-3-2019 06:44:56
Event ID:      8193
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxx.lan
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CreateFileW(\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1) - BuildLunInfoForDrive.  hr = 0x80070020, The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
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How can i solve this issue.


Can't Select Recovery Drive

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Greetings all,

I am using Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (evaluation license) to conduct some backup and restore testing using Azure and the built-in windows server backup utility. I am attempting to restore the system state using the instructions in this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-restore-system-state . MARS successfully copies the system recovery files to my designated local drive (D:) . I have rebooted the server into safe mode, as specified in the article.

However, the Windows Server Backup utility does not allow me to select the drive in the wizard. That is, when I select the "Local Drives" radio button, on the "Specify Location Type" pane, click Next, I have only the "DVD Drive (E:)" as a pick in the "Backup Location" drop-down list on the "Select Backup Location" pane. The correct drive, D:\, is not on the list. I have confirmed the drive is available and the drive has the system state restore files. Obviously this is important, as I intend to replace my on-prem backup with Azure and will need to be able to do a system state restore. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance!

Select Backup Location

File location

Windows server 2008 r2 hardening

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Hello,

Firstly I would like to say I am still a learning admin which has been given a task somewhat out of my league.

We have a client who has windows server 2008 r2 running as a domain controller with multiple office pc's on the main floor. After a recent attack of ransomware at a different clients office they are worried about security. And I was asked to harden the security on the server and network in general. After going through a lot of information on the web I understand that number one priority is to be made for secure backing up and am suggesting a cloud based backup solution with the option to rollback file versions so that in the case of ransomware we have clean backups of all the important files.

What I want to ask is can anyone point me in the direction of some good guidelines or point out some general things that should be done on the server so that I can more or less sleep a bit easier. Ive been reading up on AppLocker but I am confused as to which folders and paths I should block off for running exe files.


Windows Backup Fail

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I have received an error on my backup the last 4 days. This worked correctly for weeks prior to the first error.

The error is as follows: The backup operation that started at '‎2019‎-‎02‎-‎25T15:50:49.657335900Z' has failed with following error code '0x8078011E' (Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP). This may happen if another application is using files on the ESP. Please retry the operation.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

The error ID is 517

I am not aware of any significant changes from the last day the backup worked to the next day when it did not

File Server is running Server 2016 Standard and backup is being sent to a small NAS.

KB2781272 - Anywhere on this planet where I can get this hotfix?

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I am in need of KB2781272 for my Windows Home Server 2011 but all links to its existance are no longer valid. I understand that support for this product stopped in April of 2016 but I am only looking for a hotfix file that, I would assume, still exists someplace. I am not looking for support, just the hotfix. Does anyone know where I can find it? Microsoft support has taken the attitude that its a dead product and will not seem to help. Not sure why there is no archive of old hotfixes someplace. Anyone have any ideas where I might be able to get this hotfix?

Thanks.


Bill

Cannot schedule a backup on Windows Server 2016 prompt "The task XML contains a value which is incorrectly formatted or out of range"

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Hi guys,

I'm encounter a issue when I was trying to perform Windows Backup on Windows Server 2016 Std.

I can do the backup by manually but I cannot do by schedule the auto-backup.

It prompt "The task XML contains a value which is incorrectly formatted or out of range..."

Could u guys can help to to check out this issue?

Thanks in advance.



Live For Now

Will adding a drive letter to the recovery partition cause issues?

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Hi,

I have (hopefully) an easy question to answer?

We backup a number of Windows 2012 & 2016 servers using an older backup application that pre-dates these server OS's. The software can back them up ok, however it mentions that these servers contain a recovery partition and in order to back them up and later restore them correctly, they need to have a drive letter assigned.

Given this is a system reserved partition, I'm a little wary of assigning a drive letter to them in case it ends up causing issues with the server now or down the track.

I've searched around to see if there's any advice either for or against doing this, but with no luck.

Can anyone out there advise if this is a good or bad thing to do?

Cheers.

Windows Server 2016 Essentials Not Running Scheduled Backup

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Hello, I have a Windows Server 2016 Essentials server that I have setup a scheduled backup on.  I have it doing a full bare metal backup to an external hard drive.  Windows shows the scheduled backup in the Windows Server Backup GUI and in the Task Scheduler.  I can run the backup manually, without any issues, but when the scheduled backup is set to run it doesn't. If I launch the Windows Server Backup GUI it will tell me that the backup is scheduled to run the next day.  When I look at the scheduled task I see that it is using the SYSTEM account and has a Last Run Result 0xC0000142. I have never had an issue with the Windows Backup program and this was a fresh install all I configured on server is to be a domain controller and ran all of the Windows updates.  I haven't messed with any setting or permissions as well.  To me if feels like it's a permission problem but I don't understand why, when the backup is running with the SYSTEM account, just like all my other servers.  I have removed the backup schedule and re-added it but that didn't make a difference. I do see where a user was having a similar issue and was being told to add the SYSTEM account to the Administrators Group in Active Directory. I have never needed to do this and would like to fix the issue and not add the SYSTEM account to this group.

(server 2008 R2) Windows backup suddenly doing incremental backup of one of my drives even though set to full backup

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I've done a backup today as I have a hundred times on my 2008 R2 machine and for some reason it now will only do an incremental backup of my largest drive (160gb). In performance settings it's set to normal but I've also tried changing it to custom with all drives set to full. I've swapped out to a 2nd external backup drive. I've swapped between vss settings. I've also done a chkdsk on the drive itself.

I'm not sure what else to try other than deleting the old backup and starting fresh?

Please somebody help me!!

Windows Server 2016 Essentials Not Running Scheduled Backup

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Hello, I have a Windows Server 2016 Essentials server that I have setup a scheduled backup on.  I have it doing a full bare metal backup to an external hard drive.  Windows shows the scheduled backup in the Windows Server Backup GUI and in the Task Scheduler.  I can run the backup manually, without any issues, but when the scheduled backup is set to run it doesn't. If I launch the Windows Server Backup GUI it will tell me that the backup is scheduled to run the next day.  When I look at the scheduled task I see that it is using the SYSTEM account and has a Last Run Result 0xC0000142. I have never had an issue with the Windows Backup program and this was a fresh install all I configured on server is to be a domain controller and ran all of the Windows updates.  I haven't messed with any setting or permissions as well.  To me if feels like it's a permission problem but I don't understand why, when the backup is running with the SYSTEM account, just like all my other servers.  I have removed the backup schedule and re-added it but that didn't make a difference. I do see where a user was having a similar issue and was being told to add the SYSTEM account to the Administrators Group in Active Directory. I have never needed to do this and would like to fix the issue and not add the SYSTEM account to this group.

Image Backup Restore

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Hello,

We are using windows server 2012 R2 as domain controller and exchange server 2013 installed on this server.

Today our server operating system crashed and stuck in restarting loop with the error code 0xc000021a.

We tried repairing system file, registry, ran sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f /r and many other things but nothing work.

Then we formatted c drive and tried to recovery from bare metal image which is on e drive that to failed.

Please provide some solution.

Thanks,

Feroz  

Windows Server 2016 Essentials Not Running Scheduled Backup

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Hello, I have a Windows Server 2016 Essentials server that I have setup a scheduled backup on.  I have it doing a full bare metal backup to an external hard drive.  Windows shows the scheduled backup in the Windows Server Backup GUI and in the Task Scheduler.  I can run the backup manually, without any issues, but when the scheduled backup is set to run it doesn't. If I launch the Windows Server Backup GUI it will tell me that the backup is scheduled to run the next day.  When I look at the scheduled task I see that it is using the SYSTEM account and has a Last Run Result 0xC0000142. I have never had an issue with the Windows Backup program and this was a fresh install all I configured on server is to be a domain controller and ran all of the Windows updates.  I haven't messed with any setting or permissions as well.  To me if feels like it's a permission problem but I don't understand why, when the backup is running with the SYSTEM account, just like all my other servers.  I have removed the backup schedule and re-added it but that didn't make a difference. I do see where a user was having a similar issue and was being told to add the SYSTEM account to the Administrators Group in Active Directory. I have never needed to do this and would like to fix the issue and not add the SYSTEM account to this group.

Can anyone help me..? I have some issue with Server.

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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..!!!

Server Backup Schedule cannot be created - Cannot find the file specified

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Hi All

I've tried to create a Full Server Backup schedule through the wizard as well as through wbadmin in command prompt. I'll paste the command prompt here which is the same error I get when I try to add the schedule through the Windows Server Backup schedule:

wbadmin enable backup -systemState -allcritical -schedule:21:00 -addtarget:{6ef6b4bf-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Retrieving volume information...
The scheduled backup settings:

Bare metal recovery : Included
System state backup: Included
Volumes in backup: Local Disk(C:),System Reserved (100.00 MB)
Files excluded: None
Advanced settings: VSS Backup Option (COPY)
Location to store backup: StoreJet Transcend USB Device
Times of day to run backup: 21:00

Do you want to enable scheduled backups with the above settings? [Y] Yes [N] No
y

Do you want to format and use StoreJet Transcend USB Device (that includes volumes D:) as the location to store scheduled backups? [Y] Yes [N] No
y

Label the backup disk as SERV 2019_03_25 11:54 Disk_01.
This information will be used to identify this backup disk during a recovery.
The operation to format the disk failed. Please ensure the disk is online and accessible.

The system cannot find the file specified.

Any assistance would be appreciated!

Thanks

IBM LTO 8 Drive recognition with windows 2008 r2

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Hello.

I am a Korean and a backup engineer.

I'm writing this article that I want to ask for help.

Can IBM Windows Server 2008 R2 server recognize LTO 8 Drive?

If that is the case, please get the hotfix.

It was not Google but there was no search found.

Help me.

We look forward to your answers.
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