Where did my WindowsServerBackup 2008R2 previous versions go?

May 31, 2015, 7:37 pm

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Hi:  Server crashed and AD is corrupted in the backup.  Evidently AD broke, and the backup ran.  Not so bad if I could access the shadow copy previous versions.  We had close to 120 days of incremental backups we could roll back to.   The plot thickens.  The power supply busted and let through overvoltage and blew out two hard drives in our 6 drive RAID 10 array.  Yes.  of course they were on the same stripe, so the array is toast.  I used WBAdmin to query our ISCSI backup drive I: , and there is only one version.  The version that corrupted before the array dropped.  Luckily, we have a weekly and monthly USB drive created with one-off WBADmin backups for offsite storage and everything is okay.

Are the shadow copy "previous versions" stored in the same location as the "previous version" for shared folders that can be found with Windows Explorer?    If so, I am assuming that the location set on each drive for "previous versions" controls where Windows Backup stores its snapshots?  EGADS.  Its not in the documentation.  Our shadow copy folder shares for the end abusers are on the same drive as the data.

How can I have confidence with disaster recovery with Windows Server Backup, since the server crashed and only have the single corrupted AD backup on hand, when prior to the crash I had 120+ versions to roll back to.  Where did my previous versions go?  Its not a shared folder backup, it is a dedicated NAS device accessed as a drive letter.

Thanks!

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recovery image

June 1, 2015, 11:46 pm

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What exactly is recovery image? It seems I only have 2.02 GB free of  15.6 GB.

What happens when this drive reaches capacity, will my system shut down?

Windows Server 2012 R2 - Windows Server Backup to CIFS share

June 2, 2015, 10:23 am

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Does Windows Server Backup support backing up to a CIFS share?  I cannot get this to work.  Windows Server Backup errors with "A device attached to the system is not functioning", yet it creates a WindowsImageBackup folder on the CIFS share.

This should be a pretty straight forward backup but no matter what I do the backup fails.

Any ideas?

Hardware Config:
-- HP DL380p G8 server
-- 16GB RAM
-- Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
-- Windows Server Backup 
-- HP StoreOnce 4500 Backup appliance with CIFS share configured

Thank you for any feedback...

Small One Time backup test in Windows Server Backup: still on "Scanning file system"

April 1, 2015, 3:13 pm

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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.

backup to disk versus volume

May 23, 2015, 6:25 am

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HI,

When setting up windows server backup there are options for backup to disk and backup to volume.  I have a usb drive to backup to.  WHat is the difference between backing up to volume and disk when backing up to usb drive.  Is there performance difference or difference in way backup is performed, copies, etc.?

Thanks

Domain controller System State

June 3, 2015, 6:15 am

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Hi,

Please help me in providing the steps for taking Windows domain controller backup and restoring it. i had tried taking windows domain controller system state backup and failed many times.

My main intention is taking windows domain controller as system state backup and restoring it in another server when disaster happens.

Please help me in providing the steps.

Thanks in Advance.

Server Backups Disappeared

June 2, 2015, 4:41 pm

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Windows Server 2012 Essentials using Windows Server Backup to back up to 4TB External USB Hard Drive

Out of the blue, all backups prior to a certain date (May 6th, 2015) are gone. Less than 30 days of backups remain. Unable to restore crucial files. Credibility at stake.

Also, modifying backup configuration after new folders were created cause drive letter of backup drive to be removed without warning. This may be unrelated but is odd behavior and may just be another quirk of Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

Please help as I get the feeling that my client now thinks I'm incompetent when this may be a know software issue.

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Roland White TechSquad Computer Services Atlanta Georgia USA

Backing up Windows 2012 R2 Core - Error when launching Windows Server backup remotely

May 20, 2015, 8:03 am

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I have machines with Windows 2012 R2 Core with Hyper-V role installed which is part of 2-node Hyper-V cluster. I've installed a Windows Server Backup feature on these core servers. I am using another separate windows 2012 R2 machine (with GUI) remotely and tried to perform a "backup once" on my Core servers and receive the error "the parameter is incorrect" as soon as I click on the "backup once" .  Any one experiencing the same issue? Previously I am able to backup the same machines using the same method before I created the cluster. Backing up via powershell (Start-WBBackup) is fine but cannot perform the same steps via GUI Windows Server Backup from a remote machine. see below for error when clicking on the "Backup Once"

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Server Backup stopped at 1.99 TB data transferred

June 3, 2015, 10:36 am

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We set up a Scheduled Vss Copy Backup of several folders to copy to an empty volume that had 3.63 TB of free space.  The backup was successful for the majority of the data, but several files failed with the following error:

Error in backup of <file path & file name> during write: Error [0x80070070] There is not enough space on the disk.

The odd thing is, the data transferred stopped at 1.99 TB even though the volume had more free space.  We had 85,900 files that were not backed up and got this error.

Does Windows Server Backup have a limitation on a single backup 'data transfer' size?  Why did it 'stop' writing data at 1.99 TB even though the drive had a capacity of 3.63 TB?

Thank you!
Elizabeth

Robocopy Help

June 3, 2015, 9:49 am

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Good Morning,

I am a server administrator but have no experience with Robocopy. I'm looking for a specific Robocopy command to use on a file share used by 300+ people. 

This file share currently has about 2TB of data. What I'd like to do is move all folders/files older than 6 months to a backup drive on the same server. I would like to keep the folder/file structure as well as all file attributes (permissions, dated created/modified etc..).

Ideally I would like to automatically run this script every week (or month) and again find >6mo old folders/files and move them over to the backup drive.

I'm curious, if a folder has some 6mo old files and some 5mo old files, when the script is run the first time, will it grab only the old files - move them to the backup, then the next month when the script is run, will it grab the rest of the files and move them to the backup and re-add them to the same folder as the files that were previously moved over? (If that makes sense). 

I want to make this as automated and clean as possible. Keeping the file structure is very important because down the road if a user needs to find a file, it must be in the same folder path as the original drive or it will be like finding a needle in a haystack :S.

Any help is appreciated.

TIA

How to exceed the limitation 16.8TB of file system (NTFS) ?

May 25, 2015, 8:53 pm

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Dear Sir/Madam,

        How to exceed the limitation 16.8TB of file system (NTFS) ?

Thank you!

Extended Support for Windows 2003 Server

May 27, 2015, 4:14 am

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Based on the fact that Microsoft will be stopping the support for Windows 2003 servers, we are helping one of our client to migrate all the existing applications from Windows 2003 server to Windows server 2012 R2.

In the process, we have witnessed some of the legacy applications are having compatibility issues and need some remediation which we don't think we will be able to complete by July 14th 2015. so, If our client needs extended support from Microsoft for Windows 2003 servers, what will be the Premium charge that Microsoft will be charging the customer per server per annum ?

Thanks in advance.

Get ammount of data Transfered during a backup job (from powershell)

June 3, 2015, 7:29 pm

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Hi Guys, trying to figure how to get the amount of data transfered during the last "ran" backup job .

i found get-wbjob -previous 1  and with that i get start and end, but not the ammount of data transfered.

I know it runs a differential backup, but it would be nice to know how much data was transfered :(

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Backup failed in windows server backup after some days

June 4, 2015, 10:22 pm

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Dear All,

We are using windows server backup from last 1 year, it was working file but from last 1 month getting backup failed. When i changed the destination its work for 3-5 days after then failed. Please find the bellow error report.

Error in Event log: The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎06‎-‎04T20:30:41.958553100Z' has failed with following error code '2155348301'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Error in Backup console: there was a failure in updating the backup to remove deleted items....................

The operation was stopped.

Thanks.



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Backup Hyper-V 2012 Stand Alone Server

June 5, 2015, 7:51 am

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Does MS have a set of PowerShell CMDLETS that will backup both the HOST/Hypervisor and the Guest OS's for their free bare metal Hypervisor?

** Never Mind. Found it by searching wbadmin.

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dismount a drive used by windows 2012 R2 backup

June 5, 2015, 9:05 am

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Hi

I'm using server 2012R2 standard

How do I dismount a USB connected drive used by windows 2012 R2 backup?

It's not visible, and I found no place to safely dismount it.

David L.

without choose bare metal, just system state and drive on backup proses

June 5, 2015, 9:22 pm

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Hello, all,
I have a question, when the windows backup option, I simply choose the system state and the drive (partition).
if I want to restore, use the backup file is no problem anything? there was no difference on files

thanks for your answer..

Reo

Window startup and recovery problem

June 8, 2015, 9:35 pm

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My window Server 2012 standard(DC) with 4 partitions has a startup problem caused by hard drive problem. I have a backup and tried to load the backup with the windows DVD but the server is not recognising the image on the external drive but when i loaded another system, it showed the backup image. How can i solve the image reloading or startup issues with the domain controller?

Need freeware/open source third party tool for extending Windows 2003 server 's C: Drive

June 9, 2015, 12:00 am

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I am looking for freeware/opensource 3rd party tool for extending our Windows 2003 server's C: drive. Since diskpart in Windows 2003 cannot extent system and boot partitions. So, i have checked from bellow thread & maximum tool is not free.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/03068ecb-7edd-43d8-bc68-12bc466c583f/how-to-extend-the-windows-2003-c-drive?forum=winservergen

Anyone there could help me out finding a working tools for that!

OS is in VMware ESXi 5.5.

How do I Back up a shared VHDX

May 27, 2015, 12:56 am

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hi,

I am using Server 2012 R2 on the host, and my guest cluster. I have a shared VHDX, and in the guest cluster I configure File Server role for general file server (not SOFS), this means the VHDX is owned by only one node at a time and is offline on the other nodes within the cluster. For this example I am using Windows Server Backup,  but i can't see how this will work to backup the VHDX file from other nodes. I can only see the disk as being available from the node which owns the file server role and disk, the other nodes don't show the disk as being available for backup unless i move the ownership.

do i configure backup on each node at the time the node has ownership of the disk, and then if it gets moved away from it the backup will simply fail and when it moves back it will succeed, or am i missing some more simpler?

I can't use CSV because that is for SOFS, this is just a general file server role, and apparently backing up from the host level is currently not supported for machines which use shared VHDX files.

thanks

Steve