Find a VM Server's Missing AVHDX File?
Is WBADMIN deprecated?
KB4034825 lists as deprecated in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update:
System Image Backup (SIB) Solution (We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors.)
Is WBADMIN part of the SIB Solution?
Archive WindowsImageBackup for storage on non-NTFS file system?
I assume copying the WindowsImageBackup directory from NTFS to a non-NTFS file system will get rid of important file attributes. So I tried compressing WindowsImageBackup.Howerver right click and Send to compressed (zipped) folder, gives me an error message:
File not found or no read permission
How do I best archive the WindowsImageBackup directory for storage on non-NTFS file systems?
How to incremental sync or replication folder to folder data in windows servers automatically
I want to incremental sync or replication folder to folder in windows server 2012 ( example: folder 1 in server 1 from folder 2 in server 2 have remote location), our have two server in the workgroup. sync or replication without DFS system. can possible incremental folder data sync?
AZURE BACKUP FAILURE
2008 Server Back Up to remote location.
Win Server Backup - EFI partition issues
Hello,
Server - HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10
OS - Windows Server 2012R2
100GB C: Drive - GPT Partition
100MB EFI Partition
350MB Recovery Partition
200GB Backup Partition - MBR
Trying to do full server backup (bare metal, system state, efi, and c:) and backup fails. On the EFI partition and system state I get 'Handle is invalid' If I check logs, I get
Backup of volume \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\ has failed. The handle is invalid.
After this failed backup, getting into Server Backup GUI or Disk Management/diskpart is impossible. Must reboot server to make it work.
I've tried to use vssadmin to change location of shadowstorage, but I get invalid options error
Ideas?
Backup not working on Server 19 Essentials
The Server Backup software says it is installed, but is not present.
Have tried removing the feature, restarting the server then re-installing the feature.
No Luck. Re-installing windows is not an option.
Can anyone offer any assistance please?
Win Server Backup - EFI partition issues
Hello,
Server - HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10
OS - Windows Server 2012R2
100GB C: Drive - GPT Partition
100MB EFI Partition
350MB Recovery Partition
200GB Backup Partition - MBR
Trying to do full server backup (bare metal, system state, efi, and c:) and backup fails. On the EFI partition and system state I get 'Handle is invalid' If I check logs, I get
Backup of volume \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\ has failed. The handle is invalid.
After this failed backup, getting into Server Backup GUI or Disk Management/diskpart is impossible. Must reboot server to make it work.
I've tried to use vssadmin to change location of shadowstorage, but I get invalid options error
Ideas?
Shadow Copies - 24 hour delay in accessing Previous Versions
Hi all,
I've 'inherited' a server environment and there's a strange issue occurring. We have Shadow Copies running on Windows Server 2016 as follows:
Now, the issue occurs when I attempt to recover a previous version from the D:\ drive. For example, there is a folder called 'Public' within the D:\ drive and when I attempt to restore a previous version, I only get the following option (this screenshot was taken at 10:41am today):
As you can see, the only available versions are from over 24 hours ago. We do currently have 50 shares created from the D:\ drive and it's happening with all of them, whether or not we try and restore from the share or from the actual location.
Any help would be much appreciated!
HELP!! Getting the following on System State backup: avvss Error : ERROR: Win32 call L";GetVolumePathNameW"; failed.
2019-04-09 21:09:51 avvss Info <19007>: Adding writer System Writer GUID: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} Instance: {f9f14b7e-d2e9-4a54-a326-f3b9d9428660}
2019-04-09 21:09:51 avvss Info <0000>: Updating assert condition as part of 28662.
2019-04-09 21:09:52 avvss Error <8801>:
ERROR: Win32 call L"GetVolumePathNameW" failed.
2019-04-09 21:09:52 avvss Error <12077>: VSS returned an error message exiting HR = 0x8007007b
I have successfully run a System State backup via Windows backup.
All witers show to be stable with no erros.
The backup client has been deactivated and reactivated
I have recycled the Volume Shadow Copy service and rebooted the server, no success.
I have gone through the writeoutput file, and do not see anything in regards to invalid syntax, or pathes.
I checked the registry, as well as, and modified a registry key to read as follows:
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\megasr1.sys
The original string was as follows:
\system32\drivers\megasr1.sys
Rebooted the server, no change.
Incremental and bare-metal client backup and restore after Essentials 2016?
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?
Windows Server Backup
Hi. I have problem with Windows Server Backup.
I’m using Server 2016 standard edition and Wbadmin.msc suddenly stop working. When I try to start Wbadmin.msc, the error says:
A fatal error occurred during a Windows Server Backup snap-in (Wbadmin.msc) operation.
Error details:
Server execution failed.
Close Wbadmin.msc and then restart it.
I have tried that and course it didn’t work. I tried to uninstall and install again WSB and it didn’t work, also I have search to forums and I didn’t find anything concrete.
Does anybody have any idea?
Backup issue on Windows Server 2016 Essentials
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.
How Can I Get the Backup of the Website hosted on Windows Server
My Website is Hosted on Windows Server and I want the full back of my website as I am going to host my website on Cloud Hosting. Kindly guide me the correct way of doing that.
How to read a message on Windows server: >xcopy d:\*.* g:\wed /h /d /i /c /k /e /y
WinSXS Folder on Windows Server 2008 (aka Vista Server)
Start-WBFileRecovery: The Specified backup storage is invalid
Hello,
I'm creating a script to automatize my Wsus offline. I created a backup from the source server and I want to restore it on the destination server using powershell Server backup cmdlets.
Here is what I've done so far:
on the source server:
wsus is on E:\Wsuscontent
I backup to a USB drive I:\
On the destination server:
Wsus is on e:\wsuscontent
Backup is on \\mynas\backup
To restore I use:
$BackupLocation = New-WBBackupTarget -NetworkPath "\\mynas\backup" $Backups = Get-WBBackupSet -BackupTarget $BackupLocation -MachineName SourceServer Start-WBFileRecovery -BackupSet $Backups -NoRestoreAcl -Option SkipIfExists -SourcePath "E:\wsuscontent" -TargetPath "E:\" -Force
And I get the following error: "Start-WBFileRecoverry: The specified backup storage location is invalid."
any idea ?
Regards,
Jon
MCITP Enterprise Administrator / Server Administrator
Windows Server back up by c#/ badmin batch solution
Hi there,
I'm trying to program a small c# application that helps me set up my daily backups for my Windows Server 2016. I have to use this, as I want to do multiple backups per day aswell as different drives (built in hdd aswell as swappable usb drives) in combination with shutdowns depending on the weekday + daytime (aswell as unlocking my encrypted drives).
My program works fine but I'd like to have some confirmation from you whether or not my backup commands are fine.
Right now I use the Windows Server backup GUI for my daily HDD backup. My backup disappears upon setting up the sheduled backup. It's a nice feature, but I don't really depend on hiding my HDD, I'd be fine with havinig it visible.
For my external drives I use the following wbadmin command:
"wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:M: -include:C:,I: -allCritical -systemState -quiet"
M: is my external backup device and the system only has partition C and I.
Now I would like to stop the GUI backup and 'transfer' it to my c# program to take over. I'm a little bit confused about the commands tho.
Am I missing anything with "wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:M: -include:C:,I: -allCritical -systemState -quiet" in comparising with GUI bare metal backup? What happens when my external drives with wbadmin command are full? Does incremental
backup works aswell with the wbadmin command?
Thanks a lot.
"System Restore" (Not System Backup) on Windows Server 2012R2
We have 2012R2 Hyper-V hosts on which we have more than 100 VMs running in any given point in time. We install updates every month and update the hardware drivers and reboot the host (Physical system) Yesterday we updated the HBA drivers and after a reboot the system BSOD. We were not able to start the host machine in any mode (Safe Mode, LKGC...etc)
Everyone knows that we do not have "System Restore" like in Windows client OSs in Windows Servers OS. Is it possible to "Manually Enable System Restore on Windows Server OS"? so that the situation of restoring "System State" will not arise?
DevT-MCT