Using Baracuda backup software on server 2012 and everything was working well until recently. The snaphot before backup seemed to be working 100% , the stopped and was only backing up 10 % of the total backup. Errors in the logs indicate error 22, 8193 and some others. Re-registered all the DLL files, did not make a difference.  Ran VSS admin list providers. VSS list volumes and vss list writers unexpected error.  

 Ran a scan disk on all the volumes, no errors. Checked the registry and see (2) providers, one can be deleted and re-created and the other will not delete. Tried to run sfc /scannow and got a protective error (would not run) Looked all over the place for answers outside of uninstalling the backup software. Not sure what to do.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello Experts, having issues backing up a Windows 2008 R2 server.

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎20T01:43:21.726000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348249'.

I am able to manually create a ShadowCopy on the SystemReserved and C partitions, but I think the issue is in the vss writers. 

Here is a paste of vssadmin list writers:

U:\>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
State: [1] Stable

Last error: No error

                              Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
                                 State: [1] Stable
                                 Last error: No error

                              Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
                                 State: [1] Stable
                                 Last error: No error

                              Writer name: 'System Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {2bb166c9-9dd0-4a0f-bd5e-a49a6a8bbef0}
                                 State: [7] Failed
                                 Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
                                 Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {f84f3672-fd92-4bca-bf17-7617c8a9dfd9}
                                 State: [7] Failed
                                 Last error: Timed out

                              Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {656fc4cd-200c-443c-9516-0fc92109231c}
                                 State: [1] Stable
                                 Last error: No error

                              Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {2e3c7e75-fe1e-4898-9eee-626e51acf2d6}
                                 State: [1] Stable
                                 Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {4ff3a1a0-2b6e-4204-b0e5-db6f4c979b0f}
                                 State: [1] Stable
                                 Last error: No error

                              Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {f0eafc7c-61f8-46de-a123-42c17d157829}
                                 State: [1] Stable
                                 Last error: No error

                              Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {2f4032b3-6c2b-4ee6-9c16-dc980bc2132b}
                                 State: [7] Failed
                                 Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {09d00386-69af-4b6f-a45e-a5385e7c6bf3}
                                 State: [7] Failed
                                 Last error: Timed out

                              Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
                                 Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
                                 Writer Instance Id: {2ccdcb5b-db13-4ad0-8d93-f3bad71f4e1e}
                                 State: [7] Failed
                                 Last error: Timed out

                              U:\>

                              Anyone have a clue how to clean up the failed writers?

                              There is only one listed when running providers:

U:\>vssadmin list providers
                              vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
                              (C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

                              Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
                                 Provider type: System
                                 Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
                                 Version: 1.0.0.7

                              U:\>

So after doing a bit of MS updates:

                                      U:\>vssadmin list writers
                                      vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
                                      (C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

                                      Waiting for responses.
                                      These may be delayed if a shadow copy is being prepared.

                                      Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
                                         State: [1] Stable

Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'System Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {584ae49c-62b9-4d50-9353-117a60f9197b}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
                                         Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {390ecccb-fdab-4ab1-875e-f87d76db2518}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {321fe8f8-f94c-491a-9325-29d432544ee0}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {d87d58c0-bcb6-469a-b4ec-fb0cf913251e}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {24f7cff5-7f57-4c0c-8646-1b70f7212297}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {3e0613f1-3c60-4cb5-8702-477885d8403a}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {afb4b1ee-0aea-4d94-af67-291bd97db7c6}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {c34fab38-bd69-4c2d-88cf-981974db6674}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {faaa79e0-9724-4283-af02-04058dde7cd5}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error

                                      Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
                                         Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
                                         Writer Instance Id: {42ddb900-d442-4f9e-a2d4-d7462274afa2}
                                         State: [1] Stable
                                         Last error: No error


                                      U:\>

However, when running the Windows Backup it still fails with the same error and then list writers is full of error's again.

Mark

Using Windows SBS 2008, following recreating a partition (D:) which had reverted to RAW from NTFS, I needed to restore the last good backup, which appeared from the SBS Console/Server Backup Properties/Previous Backups to have successfully backed up drives C: and D:.  When moving to restore, I find that this backup was completed with warnings.  Expanding this line, it reports an error: "D: Incorrect function".  When I look back through the history of the connected backup drive, I find that it has only backed up the C: drive even though the backup configuration has always been set to back up both C: and D:.  As D: drive is the drive which holds all of the data, everything appears to be lost!  Is there any way to recover any of this data?

Hello,

I have Windows server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. There are
installed four virtual servers (2012 R2).

I backup parent server via Windows backup. I was able to recover whole
server including virtual machines.

I have also setup backup task to backup virtual servers separately.

When I test recovering virtual server on other hyper-V machine, it is ending
with error:<o:p></o:p>

The system image restore failed. Error details:
Incorrect function (0x80070001)<o:p></o:p>

I create new virtual machine, run installation Windows
server 2012 setup , than I choose repair computer. Error occurs when restore
process shows restoring EFI partition.

<o:p>Jaromir</o:p>

JN

Hi 

I am running a robocopy command to backup all files from one server to another

the source server is in a workgroup

and the target server is in a domain

All files are runnin well with the robocopy command exept the .exe files so even when i tried to copy those .exe file manually

i had the following message " You do not have the required permission to complete this task" and you need authorisation from  SERVER\user

i went to the source serve and tried to change the owner of the file but i cant add the target Administrator to be able to move the file. cause workgroup vs domain

how can i do this?

is there any way to remove all ownership for this file?

thanks to help

Hi all

I've been running Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Essentials Experience in test for a Windows 8.1 client environment, on an HP ProLiant MicroServer N54L. Overall I've found the Essential Experience set-up over WHS2011 and WHSv1 okay; still looking to extract any real value over the former versions.

This box has been up and running for a few months now, with client backups of a Win 8.1 box scheduled and running successfully every day. However when trying to conduct any file restores from the backups, to the client, I receive an error dialog once I go through motions from the Dashboard:

1. On the 'Devices' tab, right-click the appropriate client and select 'Restore files or folders for the computer'
2. 'Restore Files of Folders' dialog pops up, asking me to 'Choose a backup' from the list of all the backups that have run
3. Select any one in the list - have tried numerous backups; automatic, manual, etc. same result every time
4. Brings up the dialog to 'Choose a volume', choose either C: or D: partitions of the same fixed drive - again, no difference which one I choose, the outcome is the same
5. 'Opening the volume' dialog starts, with progress bar, runs to about 4% complete the pops up the dialog 'The restore process did not succeed'. Full error in the dialog, "The restore process did not succeed because your computer cannot connect to the server. Make sure that the computer is connected to the networkm and then try again

If my computer cannot connect to the server - how can I get that far? How can I open the dashboard, select a client, select from a list of backups, select a volume to restore, etc. What is going on here?

Hello all, 

I would like to know how system image is working , i mean by that , while its creating the image how it will be written to the external hard disk drive, what files were written by the OS in to EXTHDD to make it bootable , is that file are hidding can they be copied?

Now why i am asking that !!

I passed through this situation: I created a buremetal backup and the dest. location was to network shared folder, so when its created, i copied that file and past it to the external HDD then i restart the computer and i choose to boot from USB Dev. , but once i click that option it give me this error msg. BOOTMGR is missing. 

So is that mean that when i copied the image file , that boot up files where not copied, or what happened exactly?

Another question, Can i boot my machine from network shared folder that contain the backup and how ?

Looking forward for your help.

Regards,

Lubna

DPM is failing to get a systemstate backup with error message: 

when i ran backup  when run locally from WSB: I still get backup warnings suggesting: 

Tried clearing back logs but still got same result. In Backup event logs i get 

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎24T13:56:35.482853700Z' has encountered errors. Event ID 23

tried running: get-registry.ps1 which is posted on web but got nothing back from that tried looking through shady paths in registery and in systeminfo, but not luck. I even considered a SFC scan which returned with nothing.  This didn't help either; http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0be3d3b4-2561-4c4c-90ec-0f6ec939fd54/wbadmin-system-state-backups-failing-parameter-is-incorrect?forum=windowsbackup 

Please HELP!!

Hi,

Basically we have a SBS 2011 Standard machine that uses the Windows Server Backup utility to backup the following items:

System Reserved, Local Disk (C:), and DATA (D:)

But the backup destination is full and now the backups have failed for the last 3-4 nights. So how do i get rid of the oldest backups and keep the last 2 or 3? AND how do I set the backups so that everytime a backup is run the oldest backup gets deleted (or replaced with the new backup) automatically?

The local disk (C:) is 131GB, the DATA (D:) is 300GB and the System Reserved is 100MB

The backup destination is 465GB.

I have tried wbadmin commands but i keep getting errors such as:

ERROR: Snapshots were found but they were outside of your allowed context. Try removing them with the backup application which created them.

ERROR - The specified backup location could not be found or is not a supported backup storage location.

I WISH microsoft would just put the backups into a folder where there easily located and deleted!

I'm new to IT so be nice ha!

Is there a way to have Windows Server Backup write to a folder without
appending the date to it each night? I would like it to save to the
WindowsImageBackup\<Computer Name>\Backup instead of
WindowsImageBackup\<Computer Name>\Backup yyyy-mm-dd. The reason
for this is we are trying to use DFS to keep a copy of the backup
locally and to our DR site, but when the folder name changes each night
DFS thinks it needs to replicate this new folder instead of just the
changes between the two backups.

Thanks

Hi, I'm trying to back up my system to external Hard drive, but I can't exclude my data drive from back up option. it says it's required for system recovery. in my previous back up I can exclude the data drive but now I can't. the D Drive is just purely for data and is huge.

if I uncheck the "enable system recovery" option then I can exclude the data drive. but this is system back up. I need it to be available for system recovery

please help.

thanks.

Hi

We are taking backing up our servers using Windows Server Backup and we're getting the following errors:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          24-07-2014 23:28:26
Event ID:      517
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      ExMBX1.corppdc.com
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎24T17:30:17.986598500Z' has failed with following error code '2155348299' (There was a failure in creating a directory on the backup storage location.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        ESE
Date:          24-07-2014 23:28:26
Event ID:      2007
Task Category: ShadowCopy
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      ExMBX1.corppdc.com
Description:
Information Store (4836) Shadow copy instance 2 aborted.

For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        MSExchangeIS
Date:          24-07-2014 23:28:26
Event ID:      9782
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      ExMBX1.corppdc.com
Description:
Exchange VSS Writer (instance 52b87b63-d74a-4f62-aa6f-66b4c750ff76:2) has completed the backup of database 'UserDB' with errors. The backup did not complete successfully, and no log files were truncated for this database

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
----------------------------------------------
C:\Users\administrator>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {23e900d3-2e8e-415f-aa63-97bc09390058}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {a0eee787-ba41-4113-afe5-655de46d685e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {993ce66e-dc0a-449e-ab4b-b6b27e77327b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {3d4e4bc7-1b90-4da2-a8e4-fdc275acca52}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {1e0000cc-bc82-4813-9baa-6322c659affc}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
   Writer Instance Id: {6870f6dc-cc3f-42cc-9e66-e0d5215faa7e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {89cbea37-44f1-4bbc-921e-9d10536e2adb}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
   Writer Id: {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
   Writer Instance Id: {cb681b37-1fe0-47a0-914d-b162c9d4b42d}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
   Writer Instance Id: {eebc2083-db7e-485d-a9e2-e1c96a093d51}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Regards

Parthiban.S

Hey!

I have a problem with Server 2008 SP2.

A couple of days ago i deleted old orphaned Virtual Machine folders. Before i was able to do that, i had to release those, by deleting symliks? from "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines".

After that, i am having a error with Windows Server backup: "The system cannot find the file specified"

Also, if i want to restore, then the "Applications" choice is gryed out, so i cant restore i virtual machine and even Fullbackup shows of transferred data 53GB of 100GB, but it isnt backing up the volume, where other virtual machines are!

What should i do?

I tried stopping backup and scheduling it again - it didnt help.

I found out, that i have a RecycleBin folder on the VM drive - should i erase that?

I also tried looking the GUID of orpahend VM from registry and found entrys - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{881aa40e-xxxx}##?#Root#VID#0000#{881aa40e-xxxx}

The same entrys are in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002 and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet

Hi Everybody,

I seem to be having an issue with a Windows 2012 R2 Server we installed back in January of 2014. This is a simple using the File Services Role & running American Contractor. When we got to run any Backup we get the following Errors in the Events under Application:
Event 12293 VSS: 

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}. Routine details Error calling Query(). [0x80042302] [hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.
Check the Application event log for more information.
]. 

Operation:
   Query Shadow Copies

Context:
   Execution Context: Coordinator

Event 517 Backup:

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎25T13:46:51.470000000Z' has failed with following error code '0x8078006B' (Windows Backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Events under Backup:

Event 5 Backup:

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎07‎-‎25T13:46:51.470000000Z' has failed with following error code '0x8078006B' (Windows Backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Details of Event 5

- System 

  - Provider 

   [ Name]  Microsoft-Windows-Backup 
   [ Guid]  {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D} 
 
   EventID 5 
 
   Version 3 
 
   Level 2 
 
   Task 0 
 
   Opcode 0 
 
   Keywords 0x4000000000000000 
 
  - TimeCreated 

   [ SystemTime]  2014-07-25T13:54:26.459960500Z 
 
   EventRecordID 555 
 
   Correlation 
 
  - Execution 

   [ ProcessID]  3172 
   [ ThreadID]  3148 
 
   Channel Microsoft-Windows-Backup 
 
   Computer ####.##.local 
 
  - Security 

   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18 
 

- EventData 

  BackupTemplateID {E9CC1D08-0636-4EDA-AE97-0085AE093871} 
  HRESULT 0x8078006b 
  DetailedHRESULT 0x8004230f 
  ErrorMessage %%2155348075 
  BackupState 12 
  BackupTime 2014-07-25T13:53:32.668000000Z 
  BackupTarget \\#####\Server_Backups\ 
  NumOfVolumes 5 
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  DVDFormatStartTime <TimesList></TimesList> 
  DVDFormatEndTime <TimesList></TimesList> 
  MediaVerifyStartTime <TimesList></TimesList> 
  MediaVerifyEndTime <TimesList></TimesList> 
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  ComponentStatus <ComponentStatus></ComponentStatus> 
  ComponentInfo <ComponentInfo></ComponentInfo> 
  SSBEnumerateStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z 
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  SSBBackupStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z 
  SSBBackupEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z 
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  BMR <BMR IsPresent="1" HResult="-2139619228" DetailedHResult="0" /> 
  VssFullBackup false 
  UserInputBMR true 
  UserInputSSB true 
  BackupSuccessLogPath  
  BackupFailureLogPath  
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  EnumerateBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList> 
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Our VSSAdmin Writers after a backup:

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2013 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {ec6cb111-fafe-49fb-8b87-edf2e5445226}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {ad70bb46-b270-4963-a88d-f3b4d56ecc5b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {a264053a-aa55-4fdc-9575-89ae26caaa30}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {4f3e1a45-61c0-49f2-9db0-2f4dc724e357}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {aef6ca03-ea93-403e-a01c-72763738c077}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {9149705d-e232-4339-a0b3-3c871832ff42}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

I have struggled with this for awhile and I would appreciate any help possible. Thank You. 

I want to run a task that will download and install all updates for Windows server at a specific time at the end of every week. I also want the same task / or different one to reboot the server once finished updating and all backups are done.

Thanks for your help!

Hi,

i've setup Windows server Backup on a Windows server 2012 standard (which is a Domain Controler) to do a complete backup on a external hard drive.

During the backup, all go well until system state backup. It fail with the following error in the event log (event id 517) : 0x80070001 (invalid function)

after some research, i found that log :

Version=1
EventType=Windows Server Backup Error
EventTime=130475424208827903
Consent=1
ReportIdentifier=3d8a7e6a-f6a8-11e3-941f-d6db6bcd8e80
Response.type=4
Sig[0].Name=Backup Target Type
Sig[0].Value=3
Sig[1].Name=Operation Type
Sig[1].Value=1
Sig[2].Name=Overall hr
Sig[2].Value=0x80070001
Sig[3].Name=Overall Detailed hr
Sig[3].Value=0x00000000
Sig[4].Name=BMR hr
Sig[4].Value=0x00000000
Sig[5].Name=SSB hr
Sig[5].Value=0x8078001d
Sig[6].Name=Volume Backup hr
Sig[6].Value=0x00000000
Sig[7].Name=Application Backup hr
Sig[7].Value=0x00000000
DynamicSig[1].Name=Version du système
DynamicSig[1].Value=6.2.9200.2.0.0.272.7
DynamicSig[2].Name=Identificateur de paramètres régionaux
DynamicSig[2].Value=3084
FriendlyEventName=Windows Server Backup Error
ConsentKey=Windows Server Backup Error
AppName=Exécutable du service de moteur de sauvegarde en mode bloc Microsoft®
AppPath=C:\Windows\System32\wbengine.exe
ReportDescription=Windows Server Backup Error Report

System State Backup return error 0x8078001d. 

I've google a lot about these errors but nothing concerning Windows Server 2012.

VSS Writers does not show any errors (using vssadmi nlist writers)

No disk error anywhere in the event viewer.

I've also check the "JUNCTION" issue (mostly known in Win 7 and Win server 2008 r2) but none of them are "mounted drive" so ...

I'm really runing out of idea ...

EDIT : 

No updates are applyed to the machine.

will try with updates ...

EDIT :

even with the last Windows updates, i keep get the same error

Hi,

When running either a scheduled back or a once off backup, I receive the following error around 30 seconds into the backup:

"The Windows Server Backup service has stopped"

"A fatal error occurred during a Windows Server Backup snap-in (Wbadmin.msc) operation. Error details: The Windows server Backup service has stopped"

In event viewer the following two events were logged:

The Block Level Backup Engine Service service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 120000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

I have tired restarting the Block Level Backup Engine Service service, deleting the backup catalogue, removing and re adding Window Server Backup feature. None of these fixed the problem

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My company is still running on server 2003 and we wont be updating until late this year. In the meantime I need a good but cheap backup software solution. Right now we are using Acronis version 9.1 and when it works its meh but more often than not it is a PITA. I am using 2x8TB nas drives and back up around 1TB once a week and incrementals every weekday. What I liked about Acronis is that I can mount an image and just copy a file from that.My version is extremely old and I dont know if the latest version still supports instant mounting of an image to just drag out a file from an incremental.So I ask you guys, what back up software do you recommend that is 1. Cheap, like $1000 or under2. Supports bare metal restoring3. reliable