Hello. I have a client with a SBS 2011 server who has been using Windows backup to back up to an external USB disk. They've probably done a couple dozen successful restores in the past two years. Today we tried to restore files but the only backup listed is yesterday's. The GUI shows successful backups from the past week (and one failure). But Status -> All Backups -> View Details shows yesterday's successful backup, then jumps to last summer. I've tried to restore using the 'backup stored on another location' option and browsed to the backup disk with the same result. The external disk is 2 TB with about 75% free space and has been the backup target since last summer. Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space on the external USB disk is UNBOUNDED. Why does the backup show successful backups that cannot be restored?

Thanks.

Keith

hi

I have Windows server 2008 r2 with Hyper-v ( two virtual machine DC,ISA),but when i want create back up with Windows Server Back up on external storage i see this error:

Failed to create the backup of virtual machine 'ISA2'. (Virtual machine ID 1239204B-5195-40DB-805E-D404D753A0DA)

but when i stop ISA VM i can create back up.

what can i do?

help

Windows Server Backup (on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials with all latest updates) still maxes our disk IO during backup. Have 2x3Tb (as a Storage Space) SATA2 and 1x4Tb (split into 3 partitions) SATA3 being backed up to a 6Tb SATA3 disk. During backup, the media services are not accessible, and logon via remote terminal is so slow as to often timeout. File shares seem just about usable, at least sometimes.

Given the size of the backup, they typically take around 10 hours - making scheduling of these alongside the daily client backups as well as normal use of the server almost impossible! As the Windows Server Essentials Dashboard has very limited capability for scheduling backups (fixed at daily, and same items every day) this becomes extremely limited...

Is there a way to throttle the disk IO of the backup job - I have tried a number of utilities to set the IO priority to Low, but this effectively stops the backup :-(

If not, what is the best way to make a suggestion to Microsoft that the capability to limit disk IO needs to be added tothe Windows Server Backup tool (in a way that works with the Windows Essentials front-end).... and ideally, the Windows Server Essentials options for server backup should allow more flexible scheduling supporting more than one job and allowing frequency other than daily so that you could have e.g. weekly to backup the client backups, daily to backup shared folders and Windows 8.x history files...

We have a Windows 2012 standard server, and once we renamed the server, we started getting the following VSS errors - 8193, 22, and 12292.  How can I fix this?  The errors are listed below.  Thanks in advance!

Error 8193 - Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance.  hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered

Error 22 - Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider. The error returned from CoCreateInstance on class with CLSID {e579ab5f-1cc4-44b4-bed9-de0991ff0623} and Name IVssCoordinatorEx2 is [0x80040154, Class not registered

HI,

I have One tape & monthly taking normal backup of my files.Today i am trying to take backup i got a message that media full insert the new media or press cancel the current job....So i press cancel..

Now I want restore the previous back up files..when i insert the tap i am getting below image error

OS : Windows 2003 Server : LTO-4 Ultrium RW data cartridge.

Thank you all...

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:
Faulting application name: wbengine.exe, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce79951
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18247, time stamp: 0x521eaf24
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000c4102
Faulting process id: 0x13e8
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfa9f0936b235a
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: e99a55c8-15e4-11e4-9ab5-a01d48c77640

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.

I used Debug Diagnostic Tool v2.0 and capturing all instances of wbengine.exe process:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi am Using windows Server 2012, am able to take backup only from Local drives.
i want to Run even mapped network drives also..
please guide me how to take backup of network drives or mapped network drives.

Host: W2K12R2 fully patched (Hyper-V Role)

After adding a third IDE-disk to a running W2K8R2 (NTDS role) Guest Backups are failing (during backup for each disk there's a scsi disk mounted, vss-snapshot, that cannot be recognized, question to format this disk).

To narrow it I installed windows backup onto the guest trying to backup systemstate. After cleaning all vss isues, e.g. restarting the server all writers are stable.

Then doing the systemstate backup:
Errorcode 2155347997

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" /> <EventID>5</EventID> <Version>2</Version> <Level>2</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-08-20T15:53:37.620830700Z" /> <EventRecordID>34</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="5836" ThreadID="5448" /> <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Backup</Channel> <Computer>EPHDB01.eph.lokal</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System>
- <EventData><Data Name="BackupTemplateID">{282BD563-28CE-4300-9491-8486A49A4018}</Data> <Data Name="HRESULT">2155347997</Data> <Data Name="BackupState">12</Data> <Data Name="BackupTarget">\\eph-server\eph-backup\ephdb01</Data> <Data Name="NumOfVolumes">3</Data> <Data Name="BackupTime">2014-08-20T15:53:16.428587900Z</Data> <Data Name="HRESULT2">2155347997</Data> <Data Name="VolumesInfo"><VolumeInfo><VolumeInfoItem Name="Z:" OriginalAccessPath="Z:" State="7" HResult="-2139619299" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="15" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="0" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="1" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="0" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="550" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="F:" OriginalAccessPath="F:" State="15" HResult="-2139619228" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="0" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="0" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="0" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="548" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="C:" OriginalAccessPath="C:" State="15" HResult="-2139619228" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="0" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="0" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="0" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="1572" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /></VolumeInfo></Data> <Data Name="DetailedHRESULT">3225026565</Data> <Data Name="SourceSnapStartTime">2014-08-20T15:53:16.397337900Z</Data> <Data Name="SourceSnapEndTime">2014-08-20T15:53:32.666187700Z</Data> <Data Name="PrepareBackupStartTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="PrepareBackupEndTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="BackupWriteStartTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="BackupWriteEndTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="TargetSnapStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="TargetSnapEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="DVDFormatStartTime"><TimesList></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="DVDFormatEndTime"><TimesList></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="MediaVerifyStartTime"><TimesList></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="MediaVerifyEndTime"><TimesList></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="BackupPreviousState">16</Data> <Data Name="ComponentStatus"><ComponentStatus></ComponentStatus></Data> <Data Name="SSBEnumerateStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="SSBEnumerateEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="SSBBackupStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="SSBBackupEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data> <Data Name="SystemStateBackup"><SystemState IsPresent="1" HResult="-2139619299" DetailedHResult="-1069940731" /></Data> <Data Name="BMR">false</Data> <Data Name="VssFullBackup">true</Data> <Data Name="UserInputBMR">false</Data> <Data Name="UserInputSSB">true</Data> <Data Name="BackupSuccessLogPath" /> <Data Name="BackupFailureLogPath" /> <Data Name="EnumerateBackupStartTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="PruneBackupStartTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> <Data Name="PruneBackupEndTime"><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" /></TimesList></Data> </EventData></Event>

thx for any reply,

Ralf

hi i have this error with vss

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CLSIDFromString({00000001-0000-0000-0007-000000000001}).  hr = 0x80070002, The system cannot find the file specified.

.

Operation:

   Query Shadow Copies

Context:

   Execution Context: Coordinator

how to fix this

thanks yaniv

Hi, When i Insert LTO - 4 Ultrium RW data cartridge below error i am getting...

Windows 2003 server .Thank you

My server has been installed server backup feature,and I want to use it as data file backup.

I plan a scheduled a task that , Carry out a Full backup on Every Monday, and from Tuesday to Sunday carry out a Increment Backup.

In windows server backup, I created a schedule, then go to scheduled task , editor this schedule task attribute,

But I found I can't to implement my Plan.

how to do it ?

I have a fresh server with Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 installed. Right after I installed the OS, I installed Windows Server Backup and ran one back up successfully. Since then, I've promoted the server to an Active Directory Domain controller. I'm no longer able to run Windows Server Backup successfully. 

• I've installed all available "Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64" updates (not any of the security ones)
• In device manager all the attached hardware have drivers set up successfully
• The secondary hard drive where I am trying to store the backup has 580 GB free space. The server's entire primary partition is only 460 GB.
• The server's system partition status (where the OS is installed) is showing "System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition"
• I've uninstalled and re-installed Windows Server Backup
• I have rebooted the server, and restarted the VSS service multiple times
• When running Windows Server Backup, I choose only "Bare Metal Recovery"
• I've tried both "VSS full backup" and "VSS copy backup" with no success
• When I try to backup a single 1kb file, that fails with the same error

In the Windows Application logs I see the following errors when I attempt to do a backup:

• lsass (508) Unable to read the header of logfile \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy7\Windows\NTDS\edb.log. Error -546.
• lsass (508) Unable to read the header of logfile \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy7\Windows\NTDS\edb.log. Error -546.

• A VSS writer has rejected an event with error 0x800423f4, The writer experienced a non-transient error.  If the backup process is retried,
  the error is likely to reoccur.
  . Changes that the writer made to the writer components while handling the event will not be available to the requester. Check the event log for related events from the application hosting the VSS writer. 
  
  Operation:
     PostSnapshot Event
  
  Context:
     Execution Context: Writer
     Writer Class Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
     Writer Name: NTDS
     Writer Instance ID: {87905f79-f053-4e86-be8f-3de48ca8c45a}
     Command Line: C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
     Process ID: 508

• Ran out of time while deleting files. 
  
  Operation:
     OnPostSnapshot event
     PostSnapshot Event
  
  Context:
     Execution Context: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer
     Execution Context: Writer
     Writer Class Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
     Writer Name: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer
     Writer Instance ID: {74ae0f52-b772-41ab-8c76-a1b6e88d2ea2}

• The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎22T03:02:33.924000000Z' 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 '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

When I go to command prompt (as Administrator) and run "vssadmin list writers" I get the following:

• C:\Windows\system32>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: {2d3499e5-9673-4180-87f7-acc961121da9}
     State: [5] Waiting for completion
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
     Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
     Writer Instance Id: {dbc3ada5-4daa-4d35-8657-8048d2685d94}
     State: [1] Stable
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
     Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
     Writer Instance Id: {0eda058c-e7bf-4671-8b41-0fe4b9ff4f81}
     State: [1] Stable
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
     Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
     Writer Instance Id: {f9d3c5dd-4cb3-44fd-bdc1-21677e22020b}
     State: [1] Stable
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
     Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
     Writer Instance Id: {8fa5f71f-53d7-48d0-b69d-17e3c8427063}
     State: [1] Stable
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
     Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
     Writer Instance Id: {1d745cdc-7de1-47f9-84d7-38369e695fe2}
     State: [5] Waiting for completion
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'DFS Replication service writer'
     Writer Id: {2707761b-2324-473d-88eb-eb007a359533}
     Writer Instance Id: {29bbb620-1922-4f68-9ed5-6b7005f0f3b3}
     State: [5] Waiting for completion
     Last error: No error
  
  Writer name: 'NTDS'
     Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
     Writer Instance Id: {87905f79-f053-4e86-be8f-3de48ca8c45a}
     State: [11] Failed
     Last error: Non-retryable error

Server information:

• Processor: i5-3570k
• RAM: 16 GB
• System type: 64-bit
• Active Directory Domain Services role installed
• DNS Server role installed

Hi Guys,

Sorry!

Any one know Windows 2003 NTbackup and HP Data Protector compatibility?

NTbackup data, can read/write/restore with HP Data Protector? or other backup software? If yes, could you provide software name and user guide?

Thanks.

Hi,

In windows 2008 R2 sp1 which is in a domain name xyz.com, we need to take the full backup to a shared folder in a NAS Drive which is in a workgroup ( not joined to the domain xyz)

When run the backuponce option in the windows server backup , it is getting backed up when the credentials for accessing the shared folder in a NAS Drive is provided during the time of backup.

But when scheduling the backup , I am getting the error as follows

I am using domain user id for scheduling the backup and other credentials to access the NAS shared folder

in other words how to get this option as below during the scheduling backup to exclude the above warning

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks & Regards S.Swaminathan Live & let others live!!!

Okay, my backups are running just fine on both servers.  The Windows 2012 box is a Hyper-V server also.  My problem is the amount of available backups on the Windows 2012 Server usually is between 1-2, while the Windows 2008 Server offers between 100-120.  

The Windows 2012: 

VSS Full Backup, System Reserve, C: (Full), E: (Incremental), Bare meta recovery, and system state. 

I've noticed too that the Windows 2012 backup requires the complete C: drive, while the Windows 2008 Server does a "Full Server" backup, but does incremental backups of the C: volume, even though it is the system drive. 

Hi,

Hopefully a simple question.  Can you use the built in backup utility in Windows Server 2012 to backup files and folders on that Windows Server to the cloud/azure

Thanks in advance.

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎21T12:54:43.220211800Z' has failed with following error code '0x8078014B' (There was a failure in creating a directory on the backup storage location.).

How can I fix this problem? I had changed the hostname of the server a few months ago and the backup software was keeping a copy of the whole hard drive with the old server name, which was causing backups to fail because of no space. I went in the WindowsImageBackup folder (Clicked continue to gain access) and deleted the folder with the name of the old server name. Then the problem started.