hi,

I am using "Windows Server Backup" on a Windows Server 2008 R2 to backup files to other local disk partitions. From last week I get an error like "Error in rename of <some filename>\ during backup: Error [0x80070002] The system cannot find the file specified." then i have monitored and i could seen all the*.doc file does not backup properly. highly appreciate if you could assist me regarding above matter.

thanks..  

Event 517, Backup

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎03‎-‎12T16:02:47.502634500Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800C5' (There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Event 8193, VSS

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IVssAsrWriterBackup::GetDiskComponents.  hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.

Check the Application event log for more information.

.

Operation:

   OnIdentify event

   Gathering Writer Data

Context:

   Execution Context: ASR Writer

   Writer Class Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}

   Writer Name: ASR Writer

   Writer Instance ID: {ad4681cd-6bde-4216-8099-f87bc9bd3fa6}

H:\>vssadmin list writers
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: {e663271b-142e-4b31-b482-0aa9787d0592}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
   Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
   Writer Instance Id: {a9ae34a1-b8e9-422f-9c4f-95e82d4a8316}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {52aaaefd-7558-4b43-8099-0cbc17667796}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {8cfcc545-ae5f-4a60-9281-506e12d1e3ab}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSSearch Service Writer'
   Writer Id: {cd3f2362-8bef-46c7-9181-d62844cdc0b2}
   Writer Instance Id: {115398ba-3221-4c50-bbfd-b5cd46df8aa1}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
   Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
   Writer Instance Id: {63e08199-36f9-419b-a014-185a7c07aa39}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {8c0e5c18-65a3-42d3-bd77-051bb960c3f0}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {ca46429e-b8ba-4ebb-95c4-2b1d4bf8b293}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WINS Jet Writer'
   Writer Id: {f08c1483-8407-4a26-8c26-6c267a629741}
   Writer Instance Id: {a41d4bc1-4c5e-4cbe-b5a5-e240802abd4b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {6136948e-f819-46f7-885d-cf51d7d58f81}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {2589e581-7557-417a-b574-b7f8122cf9a6}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'NTDS'
   Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Instance Id: {b23bc0a3-8194-4156-a7ce-1f07b9bab864}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

H:\>vssadmin list providers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2013 Microsoft Corp.

Provider name: 'Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider'
   Provider type: Fileshare
   Provider Id: {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}
   Version: 1.0.0.1

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

Hi all, 

I have a small set up of three virtual machines running in Serverv 2008 r2. I am creating a DR machine which I would like to be as exact of a clone as possible. Is it possible to export the virtuals to anothe server install that isd not part of the Domain? The servers are an Exchange Server, SQL and a Sharepoint. 

Hi everyone,

I have an issue with Windows server backup on Hyper-V role.

I installed Hyper-V role on WS20012R2, and installed virtual machine on hyper-v with two fixed disks.

(VM is Exchange server 2010). First hdd is for system (80GB), and second hdd is for Exchange DB&LOGS (300GB).

Used space on system disk is 40.5GB, and on second disk 50.4. So, backup VM should take about 90GB.

I try to backup virtual machine named 'ExchangeSrv', but my backup takes 130GB, but when I run full backup from Exchange Server, my backup then takes 91GB.

Do you have any opinion about this issue, or some suggestion ?

We are planning to implement a backup solution in our environment using Windows Server Backup.  Testing in our Test environment has been successful, but implementing a small-scale one-time test in our Production environment is not going as I expected.

Namely, as a test on our Production file server, I am using Windows Server Backup to back up a single folder with 6 files and is 512 KB in size (total).  I used the Backup Once Wizard to back up this folder to another drive as a test.  It has been running for almost 2 hours now on the "Scanning file system..." step.  The drive that contains the small folder with the 6 files I am attempting to back up has 3.08 TB total of data (several thousands of files and folders). 

Why is the "Scanning file system" step taking so long?  Is it enumerating all files and folders in the drive, not just for the folder I want to back up? 

When this "Scanning file system" step ends, will it take as long each subsequent time we try to do a "Backup Once" type of backup (using the GUI or using a Powershell cmdlet)? This was only a test, so I'm not going to set up any incremental backup based off of this small folder test.

Ultimately we are looking to do a weekly or monthly backup of a folder that contains about 1.5 TB in data total.  If we were to kick this task off for the first time, generally how long can I expect it to take?  Longer than 24 hours?  The length of time it takes may dictate whether we end up using this tool for our backup solution or switch to something else.

Hi there,

Need some advice about running Windows 2K8R2 and 2012 servers backup with group policy. 

I have 20 2K8R2 and 2012 servers needed to backup. I will use built-in Windows Server Backup to run the scheduled full server backup daily and save them to remote network share folder.

In my opinion, I think it's not necessary to create a group policy to run the job, as it has been scheduled by Windows Server Backup on each machines, and runs automatically to save to network share folder.

Does it make sense and correct? Or It has more benefits to run it by group policy. Please help.

Hi All,

we have windows server 2008 sp2 server in that we have installed SQL server. now due to hardware issues on existing server, we want to take complete system backup along with applications installed on the server and wants to restore it on another server. how can we achieve this object without using any third party solutions. tried system state backup and restored it in test environment and we are not getting application data and apps installed on that. so, please suggest  how can we achieve this???

Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!

When attempting to backup my system I was unable to as it said the VSS writer is missing.

After researching found that the reason it will not run is the Filemaps folder is missing from the winsxs folder

I also cannot run SFC/scannnow  not sure if it is because this folder is missing but did follow the steps in a blog to verify that the trusted installer information in the registry was correct.

My biggest question is can I restore just this folder from a backup that I have. It has been missing for about 3 weeks now. Will the restore of this folder from 3 to 4 weeks old break anything?

Hi,

Before making system changes, I need to create a system restore point on windows server 2008 Standard with SP2 installed.,  I found where to accomplish that via the UI, but the file isn't found when I search the C:\windows directory on the server.

The executable should be C:\windows\system32\rstrui.exe, unless it was changed for Server 2008. I have system protection turned on for the C: drive.This problem also exists on Windows server R2 enterprise with all updates applied.

I searched the install media (DVD) it wasn't there. I tried the full name (rstrui.exe) as well as truncated versions. I've searched on all of the applicable forums for rstrui.exe and "create system restore point".

Does someone know where I can get rstrui.exe for windows server 8.  It's not available on windows server R2 enterprise or essentials either. If there is an alternative method of creating restore points on windows server 8, please point me in the correct direction. Is it available in any of the variations of windows server 12. I have all of the updates installed when checking for how to create a system restore point or with searching for rstrui.exe. BTW, performing "system backups" or implementing"previous versions" functionality work just fine.

Thank you in advance,

Steve

I have a Windows 2012 server backing up with NovaBackup to a Buffalo NAS.

Every time a Backup goes off I get this error

Log Name:      System
Source:        Ntfs
Date:          4/3/2015 9:00:57 AM
Event ID:      137
Task Category: (2)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      HMFS1.hamiltonmarine.local
Description:
The default transaction resource manager on volume Storage encountered a non-retryable error and could not start.  The data contains the error code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Ntfs" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49156">137</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>2</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-04-03T13:00:57.132961400Z" />
    <EventRecordID>816351</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>HMFS1.hamiltonmarine.local</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>Storage</Data>
    <Binary>1C0004000200300002000000890004C000000000BD0000C000000000000000000000000000000000BD0000C0</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Everything I find online is talking about windows server backup and checking the logs.  My backups all complete successfully just getting this error message.  Any thoughts?

Hi All,

I have few questions related to Windows server system state backup. My first question is "I have taken a system state backup using Windows server backup manager", My server crashed and replaced with a new HDD. I can restore the system state image backup which was taken. Question is, Will it restore all the applications installed on the server (including third party applications)? As system state backup never mentioned anywhere that it carries the applications installed and can be restored, so i got a doubt, if there are any limitations with restoring applications, please let me know....

Question 2 : Will the same concept or applications restoring including my entire computer c drive as it is works if i restore it on dissimilar hardware ?

Thanks in advance....

Murali

Hello,

I'm trying to setup backup on newly setup 2012 R2 server. I have Linux and Windows guests. Windows guest back up fine, sometime I do get errors though. With Linux guests (CentOS7, latest build) - it doesn't work I get error:

I read somewhere it might be because of integration tool version mismatch? Yes, I do get this warning in logs:

But, after research on this error - I found that it's "OK" and should be fine.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2956569/en-us?wa=wsignin1.0

Seems like a catch 22. How do I backup Linux Guests?

Have a 2008 R2 SP1 Server, patched to the current state, and we can not perform a system state / BMR backup. The backup starts, VSS creation always succeeds, but between 30 and 80% (it's never at the same point) the backup fails with event 5, error 2147943567. The eventlog message says the the problem should be in the "Details message":

I can not see the reason for the failure in the eventlog message above.

In Windows Server Backup, the logged error message is "a device is not connected".

The server is running on VMware and has just one virtual hard disk (drive C:) All other servers running on the same VMware plattform don't have this problem. Also, there are no warnings or errors in the system and application eventlog of the affected server. Have also tried to run a backup with completely disabled Antivirus scanner, but the backup stops with the same error.

What can we do? Thank you all in advance for any advice.

Franz

Hi,

We use System Center DPM 2012 R2 (running on server 2008 r2 sp1) to backup the system state/bmr of our domain controllers (running Server 2012 R2). Since the end of March the backups fail with the following error message:

DPM cannot create a backup because Windows Server Backup (WSB) on the protected computer encountered an error (WSB Event ID: 517, WSB Error Code:  0x11ECE20). (ID 30229 Details: Internal error code: 0x80990ED0)

When I check the windows backup logs on the domain controller (c:\windows\logs\windowsserverbackup\) there are three possible error messages:

"Backup of volume C: has failed. An unexpected network error occurred" or "Backup of volume C: has failed. Windows Backup encountered an error when accessing the remote shared folder. Please retry the operation after making sure that the remote shared folder is available and accessible" or "Backup of volume C: has failed. The parameter is incorrect".

When I follow the backup in Windows Server Backup the error occurs at the end of the backup process when the Description shows "Backup in progress..."

When I remove everything in DPM (Stop protection of member -> Delete replica on disk) and recreate everything in DPM the backup will complete succesfully but only the first time.

Any help appreciated.

DJITS.

Hello Everybody,

I have a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 and it has 3 Hyper-V VMs running constantly. Whenever Windows Server Backup starts I get the following errors (51 and 27) in the event viewer and I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to fix the issues? My backup completes as expected and the errors do not seem to effect it at all but the events get logged every single time the backup runs.

Log Name:      System
Source:        volsnap
Event ID:      27
The shadow copies of volume \\?\Volume{96320696-4061-11e0-8f56-842b2b61d4be} were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.

Log Name:      System
Source:        Disk
Event ID:      51
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\DR14 during a paging operation.

For event 51 specifically I would like to note that there is no Harddisk3 on the system and there never has been. I have double checked disk management multiple times to be sure. I also tried changing the external drive (backup destination) to a brand new one and the error persists.

If anybody can shed any light on what's going on with these errors I would appreciate it. They don't seem to be effecting the server at all and backups are still successfully completing every night so it doesn't seem like anything major, I'd just like to address the events if possible.

On 2.4.15 all emails to Inbox for that day went to Deleted folder, when I have not put them there.  Others have also found their way there. How?

A definition of Third party for Terms & C?

I have a new Dell R710 that I have 2008 Server R2 64-bit installed. It's role is file server. I first noticed there were VSS initialization issues in BackupExec and that the system state wasn't getting backed up.
 
Then I would run "vssadmin list writers" from CMD and system writer would be timing out....
 
Writer name: 'System Writer'
    Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
    Writer Instance Id: {18370018-3454-46cf-a352-db13b2536aa6}
    State: [7] Failed
    Last error: Timed out
 
I would also get Event ID 12289 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error DeviceIoControl(\\?\Volume{caaccaea-2a96-11e1-b14b-806e6f6e6963} - 0000000000000140,0x0053c020,00000000003BDFD0,0,00000000003BBFA0,4096,[0]).  hr = 0x80070057, The parameter is incorrect.
 
I would also get Event ID 12293 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::IsVolumeSupported() failed with 0x8000ffff [hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure
 
Also event ID 22 for volsnap The shadow copy storage volume specified for shadow copies on volume\\?\Volume{caaccaea-2a96-11e1-b14b-806e6f6e6963} could not be added.
 
Also I can't configure shadow copies due to error 0x8004230f "Failed to retrieve volumes that are eligible for shadow copies.

PLEASE HELP!