Force Server 2012 to do a full backup

June 9, 2015, 9:30 am

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Hello,

I am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I have a Server 2012 R2 Essentials box that is used as a file server. It just shares files and performs no other services. I have it connected to a 3TB USB IO Safe for backup purposes. Counting the system drive (c:) and the data drive (E:) I am only using less than 250GB.

I setup the Windows Server Backup using the schedule wizard to back up nightly at 12:30 in the morning. It shows each night as successful, but rub is that is is only doing incremental backups. What I am trying to do, is to have it do a FULL backup nightly, and save as separate files on the IO Safe, and only keep 1 week (7 days) of backups.

I have tried several times to do this using the wizard and cannot seem to figure out a way to make this happen. As a background note, I am not really a IT guy, I was the one whose was volentold into assuming the responsibility. So this may be a simple task, I just am not sure where to find the options for what I want.

Thank you in advance for any help that you can provide.

Rob

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([1359] An internal error occurred

June 7, 2015, 6:04 pm

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We are using HP Data Protector to backup our exchange databases and physical servers. Jobs run for a brief period and fail with the following error

Cannot write to device ([1359] An internal error occurred. )

We are writing to an external steelstore device via CIFS shares. I've been working with both HP and the storage vendor for some time and they both indicate the issue doesn't appear on their end. HP believes this to be a communication issue with the operating system.

Backup Software: HP Data Protector 9.2

OS: Windows Server 2012 Std R2 fully patched

Steelstore by NetApp

search of the net hasn't returned any information on this error. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP).

June 9, 2015, 1:51 pm

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The system is a Windows Server 2012 R2 running hyper-V. The built-in Microsoft backup software has been running for several months with no problems. The software is backing up the "EFI System Partition", C:, Recovery, and several VMs. Last week (while I was on vacation of course) the backup software began failing with the following error: "The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎06‎-‎09T20:23:20.944542800Z' has failed with following error code '0x8078011E' (Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP). This may happen if another application is using files on the ESP. Please retry the operation.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved."

The details are as follows:

-	System

-	Provider

[
Name]

Microsoft-Windows-Backup

[
Guid]

{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}

EventID

517

Version

Level

Task

Opcode

Keywords

0x8000000000000000

-	TimeCreated

[
SystemTime]

2015-06-09T20:26:44.909720800Z

EventRecordID

8458

Correlation

-	Execution

[
ProcessID]

12344

[
ThreadID]

5572

Channel

Application

Computer

ems2013.EMS3.local

-	Security

[
UserID]

S-1-5-18

-	EventData

BackupTime

2015-06-09T20:23:20.944542800Z

ErrorCode

0x8078011e

ErrorMessage

%%2155348254

I tried stopping the anti-virus software as was suggested in a post on this web site but this did not help.

So, currently the backups on this host are not working. This is a production box so I can not easily reboot the system. Luckily all the VMs on this host are also replicated to another server.

Is there a tool that would let me see what file is locked?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Writers timed out

June 9, 2015, 11:22 pm

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Good Day

Please can someone help. I am having problems with Microsoft windows writers they are timing out with the result the Symantec Backup fails to run.

I have done the following rebooted the server wrtiters still timed out

Ran Chkdsk /F

Rebooted the server a second time and all writers where fine, the backup ran for app 30 hours and failed once again the writers timed out, the fix that Microsoft has is a beta version 355956_intl_x64_zip and I cannot run it on a production server, please help.

C:\Users\administrator.AFCJOBURG>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: {e81f0422-67c3-4d23-bb70-7697cbc50c93}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {e4f303e8-e399-433d-b8f8-58f46c3ce5aa}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {548e722c-94fb-4354-b11e-b2018ac96231}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {21ccbe1a-9667-4580-8bd1-c8758ddfb489}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {bf12f13a-f7b6-45ab-b439-eb666715d3da}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {6fef6f81-f25c-4765-9bda-2e7ad71cef08}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
   Writer Instance Id: {92156367-56ba-41f7-87a7-cc06959fc251}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {d4b208c7-5a00-4809-94dd-a511f2ac60e2}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
   Writer Instance Id: {097b3a77-1a0d-41af-9f6d-e99dab5589e0}
   State: [9] Failed
   Last error: Timed out

C:\Users\administrator.AFCJOBURG>

Thanks

Kind Regards

Zakaria Khan

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Microsoft Volume Shadow Copies

June 10, 2015, 4:03 am

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We use Microsoft volume shadow copies on our file server. I allocated it 200GB of space for the Volume Shadow copies. It seems that once it is full, it deletes all the shadow copy entries to free up all of its disk space then starts recreating them again.

Is this how it is supposed to work? I thought it was setup so once the Shadow Copies is full, it would delete older entries needed to keep up to date with the new ones instead of deleting them all and starting to create them again.

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When I recover with my .bkf file my windows 2003 r2 it asks for activation

June 10, 2015, 4:24 am

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Hi, I'm having a big trouble trying to recover my windows 2003 standard r2 pack with my .bkf file. I've done what I've allways do, I go to backup files --> Recover --> Select my .bkf file --> Advanced --> and here no matter what I select even rewritte all the files or respect the old ones I get the same problem( I will discribe it later). And when the recover program it's done he asks me for restarting my server. So I do. After restarting the program it asks me for my user and passowrd. So I write them and then after a while a pop up tells me that I need to activate my product and he asks for a product key.

The image is with the spanish version because so was required by the client. But the translation is what I wrote above

sorry momentany I can't add the image, i will make it later

So I click in yes (Si), and then it goes to another blue screen window that asks for the key activation but I can't do anything. See the image below.

sorry momentany I can't add the image, i will make it later

The wierd thing is that I can't close the window because I'm unable to navigate with the mouse across the window.

I'm using as you can see virtualbox to execute my windows 2003 r2 pack. I'm sure that my .bkf file isn't corrupted so I can't understand what the problem is. I'm really frustrated with this problem. Any help would be nice

Thank you for your replies

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Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified

September 3, 2013, 9:55 am

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We have Windows 2012 Server hosting 2 VMs - Domain Controller & RDS. We have been doing Windows Server Backup incremental and have an ongoing issue with scheduled backups each night. The backup shows completed with warnings and generates 2 log files.

The first log files shows:

Backup of volume \\?\Volume{5d46f853-5db2-11e2-93e7-806e6f6e6963}\ succeeded.

Backup of volume C: succeeded.

Backup of volume F: succeeded.

Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Component: ACBCD71E-A8CA-4672-B951-52C1BE8444BE
Caption : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLRDS1
Logical Path:

Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Component: Host Component
Caption : Host Component
Logical Path:

The 2nd log file more often than not shows:

Backup of volume E: has failed. Backup failed as shadow copy on source volume got deleted. This might caused by high write activity on the volume. Please retry the backup. If the issue persists consider increasing shadow copy storage using 'VSSADMIN Resize ShadowStorage' command.

Error in backup of E:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Component: 2B4A9541-C88B-442E-9A7A-6D8A27342C11
Caption : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLDC1
Logical Path:
Error : 8078010D
Error Message : Enumeration of the files failed.

Detailed Error : 80070003
Detailed Error Message : (null)

We had been getting a successful backup once or twice a week which showed completed (with no mentioned of warnings) but now it regularly shows completed with warnings as noted above.

We did a manual full backup of the DC to a different external drive a few days ago and that completed without warnings and the backup shows: E: Completed 63.38 Full - VSS Copy Backup Successful, 8/27/13 3:35 PM - 4:43 PM. Data Transferred 63.38

On a side note, we can view the logs in the windows/logs/windowsserverbackup directory but when we attempt to view the details of a log file through the Local Backup Console for any log which shows completed with errors, we get a "MMC has detected an error in the snapin and will unload and then it shows Object referenced not set to instance of an object." The manual backup noted above that was successful is able to be viewed through the Local Backup Console without this error.

Any idea as to why this is failing during the scheduled backups? This hosts a database that we need to have regular successful backups.

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how to activate the product key for window 8.1

June 12, 2015, 6:57 am

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a few days ago, my pc puffup a message to saying that your window licence will expire soon, so i went to window activate and there i was asked to enter product key. so when i try to enter product key which was printed on the macfee dvd ,its not working. so can you help me how to get the product key for my pc.

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup problem

August 22, 2011, 2:29 am

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I have a domain controller which holds all FSMO roles installed on W2k8 R2 SP1 machine. Last friday I set up system state backup in WSB and backup was completed successfully. But, today I set up scheduled backup of system state which failed and later I set up backup once of system state which failed too. In Windows log for WSB there is following error:

Error in deletion of [C:\System Volume Information\EfaData\SYMEFA.DB] while pruning the target VHD: Error [0x80070020] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Any help will be very useful. Thanks in advance!!!

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Restore deleted shadow copies

June 13, 2015, 4:56 am

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Our company got hit by crypto.

We did not panic, we started restoring data from windows backup along with shadow copy (Server 2008). Everything was well.

Until we found it that one of the folders was fully restored (because shadow copy version we were restoring from was deleted while we are working on it due to space).

We took the backup drives off and mounted them to a hyper-v host to see if fully restoring the server with a system image will allow us to see shadow copies. and nothing.

I was looking into DiskShadow, but i think this lists backup images on a drive not the shadow copies.

My question is: What are my options now? any chance i can get the shadow copies back.

And also, is disk shadow the actual backup or is it the shadow copy versions?

Thanks.

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Restore shadow copies

June 13, 2015, 9:39 am

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Is there a way to restore shadow copies snapshots after restoring windows server from a windows backup?

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Maintain shadow copies during volume restore

June 13, 2015, 2:48 pm

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Hello,

I have been raiding the forums all morning looking for an answer.

If i recover a volume (using windows server 2008 backup) will i be able to access the shadow copies that existed during the time of the backup?

Thank you.

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Server 2012 Backup to 3TB WD My Book Essentials problem

September 10, 2013, 2:16 pm

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Trying to sort out backup issues. Our agency recently installed six new Dell PowerEdge T110 II servers running Windows Server 2012 Standard. Each is at a different physical location, but sites are connected via VPN to our network. We also purchased several Western Digital 3TB My Book Essentials external hard drives with one connected to each server via usb (these are usb 3.0 capable, but the servers don't have 3.0 ports). We have set up Windows Server Backup to do a daily backup to these drives which initially works on all of them. We have the data being backed up on our network using another solution as well.

The backup jobs are identical on each machine [Bare metal recovery, System State, System Reserved, Local Disk (C:), and Data (E:)]. Also included is the advanced VSS Full Backup option. I started remotely connecting to these machines from the main office each morning after backups ran to be certain that they backups completed (which they did initially). All was OK, then one randomly failed & continued to fail because the drive was unavailable. Windows Event Viewer shows"Windows Backup cannot find any of the backup storage locations" and the drive does not show in Disk Management.

I then drive across town to the location and have to disconnect power & usb to the drive, wait a little bit, then reconnect and it will come up and be recognized again and work for a few days. This has happened to all of them but not at the same time.

I've remoted to each server and made sure the USB hubs in device manager have the box unchecked that allows the OS to turn off the device to save power as I thought that might be the problem. That didn't help.

My next step is to go to the locations and try to run firmware updates on the drives, but I haven't found any documentation as to whether this is really a fix for what is happening. WD tells me those drives might work, but that Windows Server 2012 is not supported. We are a non-profit and cannot afford to replace all of these drives so I hope I can get them working and that the backups are restorable.

Has anybody seen this issue and know what the fix is? This is driving me nuts. Please help. Thank you.

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Server 2008 R2 Bckup

June 14, 2015, 1:47 am

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Hello ,we have server 2008 r2 with Microsoft embedded backup prog

When we are trying to restore system state the restore fails with error : "the operation failed while creating staging directory in one of the critical volumes. and event 774 shows in application event viewer .other file and folder reestore run without any problems

I tried to find solution on the web without any help .Any solution will be worm welcome

Thanks

David

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Won't recognize backup when attempting to restore

June 14, 2015, 7:19 pm

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Poweredge 2970 went down, had backups and trying to restore on another 2970 with dissimilar hardware. Every time I direct the restore wizard to the backup, it won't recognize it. It sees other backups that are too old to work with. Assuming the backup is corrupt, is there any way it can be repaired?

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microsoft windows backup problems, windows host process, shuts down unexpectedly issues

June 15, 2015, 12:54 am

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1. Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Faulting Application Path:C:\Windows\System32\sdclt.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:AppHangB1
Application Name:sdclt.exe
Application Version:6.1.7601.17514
Application Timestamp:4ce78ec8
Hang Signature:76e6
Hang Type:6144
OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:1033
Additional Hang Signature 1:76e60a6a14cf623be3ed3c597195c6f2
Additional Hang Signature 2:4dc3
Additional Hang Signature 3:4dc3c1ef1d0dd0614d8b5544357a2a3c
Additional Hang Signature 4:76e6
Additional Hang Signature 5:76e60a6a14cf623be3ed3c597195c6f2
Additional Hang Signature 6:4dc3
Additional Hang Signature 7:4dc3c1ef1d0dd0614d8b5544357a2a3c

2. windows update process problems

Description
A Windows update did not install properly. Sending the following information to Microsoft can help improve the software.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:WindowsUpdateFailure
ClientVersion:7.6.7600.320
Win32HResult:80010108
UpdateId:35B0920D-D4AA-48B9-BC23-BBD97AFBD849
Scenario:Download
SourceId:101
Environment:Unmanaged
OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:1033

3. same issues on this one several dates

Description
A Windows update did not install properly. Sending the following information to Microsoft can help improve the software.

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:WindowsUpdateFailure
ClientVersion:7.6.7600.320
Win32HResult:800401fd
UpdateId:B0459D90-79FB-4BCF-A888-0A5AE94A965C
Scenario:Download
SourceId:101
Environment:Unmanaged
OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:1033

4. windows shuts down unexpectedly issues

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:BlueScreen
OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:1033

Files that help describe the problem
032115-40809-01.dmp
sysdata.xml
WERInternalMetadata.xml

View a temporary copy of these files
Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.

Extra information about the problem
BCCode:1000008e
BCP1:C00000A1
BCP2:834B0015
BCP3:9F8273F4
BCP4:00000000
OS Version:6_1_7601
Service Pack:1_0
Product:256_1

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windows backup failure

June 15, 2015, 12:59 am

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Description
Windows Backup failure

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:WindowsBackupFailure
Operation:Backup
AppVer:6.1.7601
HRESULT:0x800706be
TargetType:13
OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:1033

Files that help describe the problem
WindowsBackup.1.etl

View a temporary copy of these files
Warning: If a virus or other security threat caused the problem, opening a copy of the files could harm your computer.

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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?

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dismount a drive used by windows 2012 R2 backup

June 5, 2015, 9:05 am

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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.

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How to overcome 2 major Windows Server Backup limitations?

June 15, 2015, 8:03 pm

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1. Is it possible to keep multiple backup copies when backing up to network drive?

I realize that Windows Server Backup cannot keep multiple backup copies (unless backing up to local drive instead of remote network drive). This defeat the purpose of having a backup because when the local drive failed, the backup failed with it, isn't it?

This can still be overcome by manually rename the backup folder by adding the backup date so that it will create a new backup folder.

2. Is it possible to do a FULL backup of selected folders?

I realize that Windows Server Backup cannot do full backup if you didn't want to backup the whole server. It will always perform incremental backup with selected folder. How can I reset the files and folders so that all the files and subfolders within the selected folders will get backed up?

This cannot be overcome as you will need to retain all past backup folders and there is no way to merge them.

BoonHong

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