Hi,

I'm trying to run a windows backup but it's failing with the following error.

Server specification: " Microsoft web server 2008 R2 sp1"

Error showing in backup tool: "The operation was stopped Detailed error The system writer is not found in the backup"

Error in event logs: Two events one with even 8193(total four entries) and one event with ID 517

errors: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine XML document is too long.  hr = 0x80070018, The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CreateVssExamineWriterMetadata.  hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.
Check the Application event log for more information.

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎23T13:00:09.593737300Z' has failed with following error code '2155347997' (The operation ended before completion.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

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Running "vssadmin list writes" list some writes and all of them showing "no error".

Could somebody help me on this?

Regards,

Jaf

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.

Hello folks,

I need your help in following situation.

My source-system has 1 RAID5 (600GB) over 5 HDDs. On the RAID-Disk are one primary partition (250GB) and 1 extended partitions (350GB).

Because the hardware is out of support, I will migrate it to new hardware-server. I must minimized the downtime and the administrative effort. So I can't reinstall a new windows-installation, because 4 different software-licences are binding on SID. Additional a DFS-R is configured, so I need some hours to reconfigure it.

The new destination-system has one RAID1 (300GB) that I will use it for windows-system, and one RAID 6 (1TB) that is planed for data.

I has make a full backup (with all Critical) by using Windows Server Backup to a NAS storage. Than I has boot my destination system from Windows Server 2008 R2 media, and will make a recover. All Hard Disk is detected, after I install the storage-drivers. When I confirm the last step in windows-server-backup, windows-backup stop with error "Not enough space on harddisk 0"

How can I move the extended partition to harddisk 1 (RAID6) durring BMR??? I cann't exclude the volume in backup-procedure, because the DFS-R is installed with some share on this disk.

Has anyone a idea?

Best regards

OS:Windows Server 2012 Stand

Feature:Windows Backup

Destination path:Shared folder

We are tried to restore 22nd Aug but not showing. please help me on this.

Our backups on our virtual windows server 2012 R2 which is hosted on Hyper-V server 2012 R2 have been taking at least 3 hours longer than they used to.
We use windows Server Backup for nightly backups which backs up to a local volume. We also use a powershell script for the weekly backup which also runs through wbadmin and backs up to a network share. 
A couple weeks ago the backups started taking 3-5 hours longer.  I monitored them and noticed that they have been taking hours to compact the virtual hard disks at the end of the backups.
I refereed to the following link about this process and it should not be happening for every backup.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2524602/en-us

We installed windows updates after this problem began but its is still happening for every backup.

What can we do to stop this?

Dear team

we are having 2 disks (like Disk 0 and Disk1)  in windows server 2003 by using IM magic partition tool i extended disk 1 space  now unallocated space is available on disk 1 is  30GB, now how to extend  unallocated space to disk 0  on C drive,without losing Data

please suggest on this please 

how taking a full image from windows server (that holding any product (active directory & exchange & lync & System center family ...........etc))

i mean as i can back up for example windows xp & 7  by Norton ghost which i can restore by booting using ghost and recover

Thanks in advance

We are considering imaging our current 2008R2 HP server with NovaBackup Business Essentials. This will allow us to restore to different hardware in case the primary server goes down for an extended time.

- are there issues with this?

- will 2008/r2 run on different hardware once the device drivers are installed?

we hope to get away from purchasing a 2nd Windows Server 2008R2 and CALs just to have it sit there.

Thanks.

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

Hello,

I have been doing a full system backup on a SBS 2011 using the Windows 2008R2 backup and the backups show complete. Today I went to look for a file in a redirected folder and the restore is blank. Apparently due to permissions. My questions are:

1. Why does Windows backup Show completed and give a false sense of security if it's skipping the redirected folders instead of displaying a directory not accessible error?

2. Does Backup run under LocalSystem, Administrator, the user that created the backup? Who do I have to grant access to user's desktop and Documents so that backup will back them up?

3. If the backups run under SYSTEM and the files have been backed up, how do I recover a file from a user's desktop folder?

Miguel Fra | Falcon IT Services, Miami, FL
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Hi good people.

I have installed Hyper-V cluster using this scheme:

1 server - domain controller Windows Server 2012 Standard (Not R2) name DC

2 server - shared SMB3 storage Windows Server 2012 Standard (Not R2) name ST

3 server - backup server Windows Server 2012 Standard (Not R2) name BK

4 virtualization node 1 - Free Hyper-V 2012 server name HV1

5 virtualization node 2 - Free Hyper-V 2012 server name HV2

Shared storage ST has 2 shares: \\st\Quorum and \\st\Storage

Quorum is quorum share for cluster consistency and Storage for virtual machines.

On storage server installed File Server and VSS for file share agent roles. Shadow copy is enabled for hard disk with shares.

Cluster works perfect.

I want to implement backup solution for virtual machines in our cluster (altaro, veeam, dpm 2012 sp1 etc) but cant get VSS to work.

When I tried to use diskshadow to create backup from hyper-v node - I always get errors.

I have investigated the problem and found that the key is in Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider.

Actually there is no Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider on Free Hyper-V 2012 server. Not in clear installation not after update, even not after hyper-v cluster creation. I think this is some bug, because this vss provider is installed by default in every other windows 2012 server version - standard, datacenter, foundation ...

I can't find info how to add Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider to Hyper-V 2012, and I have copied binary fssprov.dll from windows server 2012 standard to hyper-v 2012 into c:\windows\system32 and then added appropriate registry keys from server 2012 standard:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}]
@="VsFileShareProvider Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}\InprocServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,66,00,73,00,\
  73,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,76,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Free"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}]
@="VsFileShareProvider Class"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}\InprocServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,66,00,73,00,\
  73,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,76,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Free"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}]
@="Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider"
"VersionId"="{00000001-0000-0000-0001-000000000001}"
"Version"="1.0.0.1"
"Type"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}\CLSID]
@="{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}]
@="Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider"
"VersionId"="{00000001-0000-0000-0001-000000000001}"
"Version"="1.0.0.1"
"Type"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}\CLSID]
@="{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}]
@="Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider"
"VersionId"="{00000001-0000-0000-0001-000000000001}"
"Version"="1.0.0.1"
"Type"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}\CLSID]
@="{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}"

Now I have Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider on Hyper-V 2012 nodes and diskshadow even tried to use it, but I always get errors from Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer (sorry I have Russian versions of Hyper-V):

C:\Users\vadm>diskshadow
Microsoft DiskShadow, версия 1.0
(C) Корпорация Майкрософт (Microsoft Corporation), 2012
На компьютере: HV2, 29.08.2014 13:33:07

DISKSHADOW> set verbose on

DISKSHADOW> Writer Verify {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}

DISKSHADOW> Set Context Persistent

DISKSHADOW> Set MetaData vm.cab

DISKSHADOW> Begin Backup

DISKSHADOW> Add Volume \\st\storage provider {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0
f2}

DISKSHADOW> Create

...

       Компонент "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" не найден в списке компонентов м
одуля записи. Архивация прекращается...
       Проверьте синтаксис имени компонента.

In English it will be: The component "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" was not found in the writer components list

DISKSHADOW> exit

C:\Users\vadm>diskshadow
Microsoft DiskShadow, версия 1.0
(C) Корпорация Майкрософт (Microsoft Corporation), 2012
На компьютере: HV2, 29.08.2014 13:33:43

DISKSHADOW> set verbose on

DISKSHADOW> Set Context Persistent

DISKSHADOW> Set MetaData vm.cab

DISKSHADOW> Begin Backup

DISKSHADOW> Add Volume \\st\storage

DISKSHADOW> Create

...

* Включение модуля записи "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer":
        + Добавление компонента: \699919D1-1A99-4C7E-83EF-68A8A6082479

Сбой последней операции.
        - Возвращенный HRESULT: 80070057
        - Текст ошибки: E_INVALIDARG

In event log on hv2 I got event id 12294 from VSS: vss provider {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0
f2} returned error E_INVALIDARG.

Data: PreFinalCommitSnapshots({fb4bce54-9ba4-4b5f-80a0-3772bd42cd23}, 1).

Operation: async

Current state: DoSnapshotState

And no errors on storage server.

Installation KB2870270 not helped.

I can't solve my problem alone. Need your help. Thx.

Dear All

We are taking daily full backup exchange server 2010 by using windows backup .now a days we are experiencing issue with backup.

Am getting Event ID:517 

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎25T17:30:19.063322200Z' 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.

After this error 

my exchange server backup tools are stable and 

i done reconfiguration my backup and remounted all databases.

restarted Microsoft exchange replication service.

That day backup completed with successfully but again next day i got same error.

Please do the needful guys.

Parthiban selvaraj

Hi - it seems my scheduled Windows Server 2012 backups are failing right after they attempt to compact the Hyper-V virtual hard drives.  Not quite sure how to fix this.  Below is the detail from the Event Viewer.

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]  2014-08-14T21:08:43.518231100Z
 
   EventRecordID 1233
 
   Correlation
 
  - Execution

   [ ProcessID]  5284
   [ ThreadID]  20872
 
   Channel Microsoft-Windows-Backup
 
   Computer SERVER.MILES.local
 
  - Security

   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18
 

- EventData

  BackupTemplateID {71DC6B4F-BD59-4863-8C36-3B201AC70949}
  HRESULT 0x80780034
  DetailedHRESULT 0x80042316
  ErrorMessage %%2155348020
  BackupState 12
  BackupTime 2014-08-14T17:01:59.685184500Z
  BackupTarget SERVER 2014_05_21 18:55 DISK_02
  NumOfVolumes 3
  VolumesInfo <VolumeInfo><VolumeInfoItem Name="System Reserved" OriginalAccessPath="" State="14" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="10" DataTransferred="280297472" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="280297472" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="554" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="C:" OriginalAccessPath="C:" State="14" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="1" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="10" DataTransferred="68738285568" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="68738285568" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="5672" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="G:" OriginalAccessPath="G:" State="14" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="10" DataTransferred="16498622464" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="16498622464" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="552" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /></VolumeInfo>
  SourceSnapStartTime 2014-08-14T17:00:36.735747800Z
  SourceSnapEndTime 2014-08-14T17:14:53.037571000Z
  PrepareBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:15:42.272Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:24.783Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:10:08.715Z" /></TimesList>
  PrepareBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:15:42.276Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:25.274Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:10:09.741Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupWriteStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:15:42.276Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:25.275Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:10:09.742Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupWriteEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:19.774Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:09:59.353Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:15:19.979Z" /></TimesList>
  TargetSnapStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  TargetSnapEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  DVDFormatStartTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  DVDFormatEndTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  MediaVerifyStartTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  MediaVerifyEndTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  BackupPreviousState 11
  ComponentStatus <ComponentStatus></ComponentStatus>
  ComponentInfo <ComponentInfo><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{571e1902-54ea-4e30-a70f-3509afe662c4}" Name="475BC88D-51AF-41CB-8208-5DEDB7872C1C" LogicalPath="" Caption="Online\Windows 7 x64 - UTORRENT" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="31705873584" DataTransferred="31705873584" TotalNoOfFiles="9" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{571e1902-54ea-4e30-a70f-3509afe662c4}" Name="4FE1D1C4-A0F9-48C7-B599-B48D74525AF5" LogicalPath="" Caption="Online\Windows 7 x64 - PMS" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="46710997388" DataTransferred="46710997388" TotalNoOfFiles="9" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{571e1902-54ea-4e30-a70f-3509afe662c4}" Name="Host Component" LogicalPath="" Caption="Host Component" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="50335" DataTransferred="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{38dd85a5-a801-44af-bfbc-5889b259a03b}" Name="7D41B44D-40D2-4286-B5E7-2EA1DB17A415" LogicalPath="" Caption="Online\Test Image" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="31101893420" DataTransferred="31101893420" TotalNoOfFiles="9" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{c3c989f2-399a-4eb2-ac67-c4e49a4a6701}" Name="FD039621-366F-4360-B430-11559DCC6B68" LogicalPath="" Caption="Offline\Acosta Laptop" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="178788579624" DataTransferred="178788579624" TotalNoOfFiles="10" /></ComponentInfo>
  SSBEnumerateStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBEnumerateEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBVhdCreationStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBVhdCreationEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBBackupStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBBackupEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SystemStateBackup <SystemState IsPresent="1" HResult="-2139619299" DetailedHResult="-2147212522" />
  BMR <BMR IsPresent="1" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" />
  VssFullBackup false
  UserInputBMR true
  UserInputSSB true
  BackupSuccessLogPath C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-14-08-2014_17-01-59.log
  BackupFailureLogPath C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-14-08-2014_17-01-59.log
  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>
  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>
  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>
  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>
  BackupFlags 0x9
  ComponentInfoSummary <ComponentInfoSummary ComponentInfoArrayPresent="1" TotalComponents="5" SucceededComponents="5" />

Hi

I have one windows server 2008 named Server A

I have taken the backup of c drive including system state , efi partition to D drive of the same server A and after that found that D drive of the same server A has few program files and other folders in it.

So I have taken the backup of the D drive including the backup of the c drive to another  shared folder in Server B.

(Here, I cannot take the Full backup of the Server A to the Server B due to the space issue in Server B)

In situation when i need to restore the Server A , what will be the restoring procedure?

Any help is greatly appreciated

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

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

Windows 2003 server .Thank you

I have a server running Windows 2012 R2.  Since the installation of Windows 2012 R2 Update 1 (KB2919355), the VSS System Writer is missing.  When using "vssadmin list writers" from command prompt, the following error is displayed in the event log:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2
Date:          28/08/2014 21:35:28
Event ID:      513
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Server-RDS.domain.local
Description:
Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object.

Details:
AddCoreCsiFiles : RtlConvertNtFilePathToWin32Path() failed.

System Error:
0xC0000039 (unresolvable).

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The server is not able to take a VSS snapshot during a backup which is a cause for concern.  Most forums suggest resetting permissions on the %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\ directory, which I have tried but does not resolve the issue.  I restored the server to the point before Update 1 was installed and the system writer was present, however as soon as Windows 2012 R2 Update 1 was installed, the writer no longer exists.  The only difference to this server compared to other Windows 2012 R2 servers which I have deployed (and Update 1 has installed no problems with no VSS writer issues), is that the user profiles have been moved to a different volume.  I suspect this is a permissions problems and although I have tried running the Sysinternals Process Monitor, I cannot see any permission problems when the VSS writers are called.

Does anyone have any suggestions.  Thanks in advance.