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Adding an email so I can be contacted by facebook.

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Need to receive email to http"//deekennedy@outlook.com from facebook to change my password.

P2V using system image backup from Windows Server Essentials on the same hardware

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Hi,

I have the requirement to move a newly built physical Windows Server Essentials install, to a guest on the same server after installing Server 2012 and Hyper-V onto the original hardware. Can I use the system image backup to do it?

My thoughts are to backup the original server, wipe it, install the 2012 Server, install Hyper-V, create a new virtual guest, then restore the backup to the virtual guest. Any pointers or documents would be greatly appreciated.

FergusMc

Windows Server Backup for Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine - Keeps Failing!

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Hi,

We're attempting to back up parts of a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation running under a virtual machine (*). We've tried using the Windows Server Backup that comes as standard with 2008 R2, but haven't been able to get it to work.

Accessing the server via Remote Desktop, I attempt to back up a folder onto one of my local drives (showing as a network share on that machine) but get "Backup failed to complete" and "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation". (The share is writable via the server, as I can create and edit a new text file there).

The Event Log isn't much more informative:-

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎05‎-‎18T10:44:13.093750000Z' has failed with following error code '2155348041' (None of the source volumes were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Any hints as to what might be going wrong here would be appreciated- thank you!

- MM

(*) Which I believe uses a QEMU/KVM setup, though this was set up by our web host and not ourselves.

WBADMIN Status: "preparing media to store backups"

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  I'm using wbadmin on six Windows Server 2008 R2 Std file servers; the data goes to a USB drive attached to each server.  At the start of the first scheduled backup after a file server is restarted for any reason (such as WSUS last night) the status of the wbadmin job shows "preparing media to store backups" and moves no data for about 30-35 minutes.  The USB drive being used has not been switched out. 

  All six of my file servers using wbadmin do this, every time they are restarted.  They do not show this behavior at any other time. 

  I'm not as concerned about this occurring on these file servers as I am about the possiblity that this long delay may be causing or contiobuting to some problems I'm having with DPM and Hyper-V vms on a cluster.  Which log would show this, if any, since it is a status, not an error event with an ID? 

was not optimized because an error was encountered: not enough storage is available to complete this operation .(0x8007000e)

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 Hi! I am using windows server backup on server 2012 rs. when the schelude backup,i got this messages.

Please help!

to remove the lock screen password

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please help me to remove the lock screen password . it is creating problem as while opening my laptop the Microsoft account password is always demanded .even if given often it shows error

to remove the lock screen password

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please help me to remove the lock screen password . it is creating problem as while opening my laptop the Microsoft account password is always demanded .even if given often it shows error

Window startup and recovery problem

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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?

Windows Server 2008 R2 Essentials - System Restore can't find the backups

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Title pretty much says it all.  Daily logs show backups running successfully every night for months.  Have something like 200+ backups spanning 800GB on a 1TB USB drive.  System now booting into Recovery mode (RecEnv.exe) but it refuses to see the backups.  Tried plugging and unplugging USB drive, tried multiple reboots, tried connecting the bare drive via a free internal SATA interface (BIOS sees it fine) but the backups are never found.  Logged in as Administrator with the correct non-default password.

Hooked the drive up as a USB device on a Windows 7 Pro machine - sees it fine.  Not thrilled by the idea of restoring over the network from a USB 2.0 device but that is my next option.

I've searched for and read the "Essentials" posts on this forum and it appears I'm not alone, the cut and paste answers aren't cutting it.

Anybody actually done a bare metal restore using the Windows created backups and the Windows restore method on 2008 R2 Essentials?  Any suggestions for Plan B?

VSS fails unexpectedly for third party

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A few years ago the company I support transitioned to Carbonite Backup from a local company that had proven unreliable.  We have three servers, all of which are running Carbonite.  For some reason our Exchange server, and only our Exchange server, has been had a very hard time with Carbonite.  VSS fails, it used to fail regularly.  So regularly that I actually set up the server to reboot every week just to prevent it.  We've since made some changes which allowed me to turn off one of Carbonite's services and since then there hasn't been a problem, until this weekend.  Once again VSS failed, the backup failed, and at this point the server becomes next to unresponsive.  Interestingly, email continues to flow without a problem. It's just impossible to actually interact with the server in a meaningful way.

The Event Data is as follows:

Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {e579ab5f-1cc4-44b4-bed9-de0991ff0623} and name IVssCoordinatorEx2 cannot be started. [0x8007041d, The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.


Operation:
   Instantiating VSS server

-EventData
{e579ab5f-1cc4-44b4-bed9-de0991ff0623}
IVssCoordinatorEx2
0x8007041d, The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
Operation: Instantiating VSS server
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

I've contacted Carbonite about it multiple times and they have always said it's nothing to do with their system.  Considering that we recently got our third server as a data server and transferred the bulk of Carbonite's duties to it, I'm inclined to agree since it has not had this issue.  It seems to be something to do with the Exchange server.  I've never been terribly confident in the Exchange servers initial setup, but I am also loath to rebuild it at this point.

Is there any help or ideas that might get me past this?

Wbadmin "ERROR - No system state backups were found."

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I have a brand new 2008R2 SP1 server (Domain Controller) where I try to make SystemState backup. Backup seems to work fine, but I can not delete oldest.
I'm uncertain if I do have a valid SS backup.

 

I take backup with this command:

C:\>wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:D:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Starting to back up the system state [04-08-2011 08:45]...
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up the system state from volume(s) Local Disk(EFI System Partitio
n) (200.00 MB),C-OS(C:) to D:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y

Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Windows Server Backup is updating the backup for deleted items.
This might take a few minutes.
Found (96) files.
Found (13207) files.
Found (29482) files.
Found (39566) files.
Found (78588) files.
Found (79088) files.
The search for system state files is complete.
Starting to back up files...
The backup of files reported by 'Task Scheduler Writer' is complete.
The backup of files reported by 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is complete.
The backup of files reported by 'Performance Counters Writer' is complete.
Overall progress: 1%.
Currently backing up files reported by 'System Writer'...
 - continuing to 100% -

Summary of the backup operation:
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The backup of the system state successfully completed [04-08-2011 08:59].
Log of files successfully backed up:

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If I check the backup with "Get Versions", I get this:

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C:\>wbadmin get versions
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Backup time: 30-07-2011 21:00
Backup target: Fixed Disk labeled D:
Version identifier: 07/30/2011-19:00
Can recover: Volume(s), File(s), Application(s), System State
Snapshot ID: {6f4f38c8-3d3c-4e9f-87fb-d7cdb9c13c59}
 - several other backups-

Backup time: 04-08-2011 08:45
Backup target: Fixed Disk labeled D:
Version identifier: 08/04/2011-06:45
Can recover: Volume(s), File(s), Application(s), System State
Snapshot ID: {ae749899-447f-4c6d-b2d3-06c2f1816541}

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So far everything seems ok.
But when I try to delete the oldest backup, things look weired:

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C:\wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -deleteOldest
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Enumerating system state backups...
ERROR - No system state backups were found.
This command can be used to delete backups that only contain the system state.

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If I try with -keepversions, I get same result:

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C:\>wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -keepversions:1
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Enumerating system state backups...
ERROR - No system state backups were found.
This command can be used to delete backups that only contain the system state.

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So do I have a valid Systemstate backup ?
And can I trust I can use it to recover if needed, since it says "No system state backups were found" ?
And why can't I delete the oldest backup ?

 

- Duelund


Best regards,

Server 2012 backup - external drive

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My server PS died. It's going to take days for it to come in. I need to RESTORE the data from the external hard drive attached to the server and put it on a temporary PC.

I connected the external drive to a windows 7 box, mounted it. I see the XML files but how can I RESTORE the data to this PC?

What software do I use or can I copy it? I tried the BACKUP AND RESTORE on the Win7 box, but it doesn't see the image.

Background: I configured the external drive on the server to do the backups and as you know, Server 2012 required to format the whole drive and create it's image on it.

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

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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


WbAdmin shows only lats backup to restore !

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I have three hyper-v servers with four VM's on each I have scheduled windows server backup on them using default setting to backup them twice a day I have configured iSCSi drive on each hyper-v to be used as backup drive

now I want to test the backups and restore them on different server to make sure the backup is usable "I do this from time to time" i did connect the iscsi drive to another server an ran windows server backup but i can only see the last backup only ! no older backups will be shown !

when i check on the individual hyper-v backup consoles it shows this

vssadmin list writers not showing any output

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Hi,

We are facing a backup issue in one of our windows machine. backups are taken using symantec Netbackup tool. so we raised a SR with symantec and investigate the issue. we got the update from symantec team as Backup processes got hanged and vssadmin list writers also not shown any output. they concluded as this is purely windows issue you need to check with windows team. 

anyone can help on this issue. 

Balaji


Windows server struck at " preparing automatic repair" and end to death

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Hi,

I took image backup of a server and restored in VMware, but the server is not start and ending in loop " preparing automatic repair". i had tried all the possibilities and doesn't work.

Please  help me in resolving this.

Thanks in advance.

chandra


Windows 7 Backup error 2155347999-Windows cannot find the shared protection point

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I get the following error when I try to back up to an external hard drive. Can you explain what I have to do please?

Howto recover corrupt backup catalog

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Hi,

I have a SBS 2011 running Windows Server Backup every night. It has a RAID disk where two disks failed a week ago. Since the probability that two disks fails at the same time should be close to zero I suspected the RAID-5 controller. So a replacement was ordered and installed on June 7. And then the machine rebooted, but I could see that one disk was still gone. I also noticed that the last backup was taken July 1 which was the day before the crash. But after some hour another disk stopped working which caused the entire server to die.

I got new disks and restored the server from an image backup I had from May 1, and it starts ok. But when I start Windows Server Backup it doesn't show any backups after May 1 even thou I know it has been running every night. Ok, so I need to recover the Backup Catalog from my backup disk

But if I try to run 'wbadmin restore catalog -backupTarget:X' then it says

"ERROR - The specified backup location could not be found or is not a supported backup storage location"

When I then look at the backup disk I can see that the there is catalog \WindowsImageBackup\<ComputerName>\"2015-07-07 114042". It therefore seems like Windows Server Backup for some reason started on July 7 when the machine started after RAID controller replacement, but then the catalog was crashed when the disk died.

The consequence of this is that if a disk failure occurs causing Windows Server to die abnormally while Windows Server Backup is running, then this may result in a corrupted catalog on the Windows Server backup disk meaning that all backups are lost!!

The backup disk should contain backups up to July 1. Is there some way to fix the corrupted catalog on the backup disk?

Regards


MWebjorn


WSB Event ID 521 UD 30229 System State Replica Inconsistent DPM 2012 R2

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Hello everyone,

I have having issues getting system state backups to work with DPM. I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to resolve this. Both DPM 2012 R2 and the 2012 R2 server have the latest service packs and updates. The server can successfully complete a wbadmin.exe start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:C: and all vss wirters are in state stable . After completing the wbamdin I go to the DPM console and start the system state backup. It fails in about 5 minutes. Then on the server i am backing up I run vssadmin list writers and many of the writers are in state 7 failed. If i reset the writers repeat the test I get the same results. Any ideas on what is going on?

Thanks!

Backup always runs full instead of incremental

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OS : Windows Web Server 2008 R2

I manage 3 identical servers with the same OS and the same configuration.

One of the servers make full backups every night instead of incremental.

All three have the exact same backup settings, the other two work perfect.

3rd server use to make incremental backups, at some point something went wrong.

I can figure out what is the problem, any ideas ????

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