Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup client backups

August 17, 2015, 11:56 am

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Unable to find an answer anywhere on Microsoft's website or by calling sales. Hope someone here can help. I have a client who has no need to be on an Active Directory but does need client machines to be backed-up. Currently we are using an HP Datavault running Windows Home Server v1 which is based on Server 2003(now end of life). Wanting to replace it with a Western Digital DX4200 running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup. The question I have is: Does this version have the Microsoft centralized client backup built into it like Essentials does? 

Thanks

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File Server Network Issue - Request Time out

August 17, 2015, 2:57 am

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Hi All,

Im having a vmware host which is patched with 1 network as below IP

HOST 10.96.1.8

Virtual Machine IP : 10.96.1.7

I have configured this server with win srvr 2008 R2 as file sharing.this virtual machine network always disconnect request time out. the only solution is have to restart this virtual machine.

when i ping the host Ip has no issue. only virtual machine is affecting. i have upated the driver and re add again the virtual adapter again still the issue occur. can any one help me on this.

Unable to do in-place upgrade of IBM physical server from Windows 2003 to 2008

August 18, 2015, 10:10 pm

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Hi All,

We have IBM physical server model x3650-[79798BG] has Windows 2003 R2, 32-bit with SP2 installed. We are trying to do in-place upgrade to Windows 2008 32-bit. After running upgrade wizard, as soon as it reaches the 'Expanding files' option, the installations stops with following error message:

"Could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation can not proceed"

Can someone please help me out on this.

Windows 10 problem

August 19, 2015, 12:50 am

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Any idea how I can retrieve my Kaspersky anti-virus, which appears to have vanished following Windows 10 installation recently?

Also having issues with Seagate external drive, which no longer backs up from PC.

PROBLEM FOR RDP SERVER

August 21, 2015, 5:20 am

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The Remote Desktop Session Host server is in Per User licensing mode and No Redirector Mode, but license server win-49r8lqe7q5h does not have any installed licenses with the following attributes:
Product version: Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2
Licensing mode: Per User
License type: RDS CALs

Licensing for Server 2012

August 21, 2015, 8:23 pm

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I have about 1500 clients in my Organization. I am planning to convert sever 2003 platform to server 2012. I have everything required for server 2012 platform. All of my clients license are original. Most of them are using Windows 7, 8 and 10. So I want to know about which version of server will be appropriate for my organization? And as my clients have original windows is it necessary to buy CAL for every single clients? Please help me.

Windows SBS 2008 Windows Server Backup recovery problem

August 21, 2015, 8:04 am

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I am backing up to a NAS target using ISCSI with the Windows Server Backup tool. The only backup available for recovery (in bold) is the last one. I have been backing up to this device since April 2015, but looking at the Details of backups, 184 of them are from pre March 2013. I expected the new backups to start rolling off the old backups but it is only creating a current backup. Does anyone know what I have misconfigured or misunderstood about the way this should work?

Thanks for any help!

  

Server Backup Failure (Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials)

August 23, 2015, 3:41 am

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This seems to be a problem that has come up before in these forums - I have been through several threads and none of the suggestions have helped fix server backup.

I am trying to perform a System State and C: backup (for Bare Metal Recovery) - backup is to a local drive (so not a NAS or a Network Share). Server Backup used to work but stopped sometime around the time I switched the backup drive (which was running out of space).

Backup fails both from the scheduled Server Essentials Dashboard and also manually using wbadmin. For example:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:P: -include:c: -allcritical -vssfull -quiet > "c:\Temp\Server Backup.log"

Gives the following output:

wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Retrieving volume information...
This will back up System Reserved (350.00 MB),System(C:) to P:.
The backup operation to P: is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
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 existing backup to remove files that have
been deleted from your server since the last backup.
This might take a few minutes.
Windows Server Backup is updating the existing backup to remove files that have
been deleted from your server since the last backup.
This might take a few minutes.
Windows Server Backup is updating the existing backup to remove files that have
been deleted from your server since the last backup.
This might take a few minutes.
Windows Server Backup is updating the existing backup to remove files that have
been deleted from your server since the last backup.
This might take a few minutes.
The backup of volume System Reserved (350.00 MB) could not be completed. Error: The specified backup disk cannot be found.

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The Backup Error log file has the following:

Backup of volume \\?\Volume{c05750d2-1c50-11e3-80b1-806e6f6e6963}\ has failed. The specified backup disk cannot be found.

I think underlying this is a VSS problem but I can't spot anything amiss using vssadmin. (vssadmin list writers shows 'No Errors' against each entry).

Looking at the Event Log, there are no entries shown against VSS (as Source) under Backup (as Source), the following error is shown:

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎23T00:30:21.834712600Z' 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.

I'm stumped - I've spent 3 or 4 days trying to crack this and am no further forward. Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.

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backing up the E partition in addition to C

August 23, 2015, 4:30 pm

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Hello

I'm currently using the following command as a batch file and a scheduled task to backup our 2008 R2 server to our remote storage server. 

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\remote\backup\oreo -include:C: -allcritical -vssFull -quiet

I'd like to also backup its second partition the D drive.

Do I just add another line in the batch file for the D partition as below or is there a better way?

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\remote\backup\oreo -include:C: -allcritical -vssFull -quiet

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\remote\backup\oreo -include:D: -allcritical -vssFull -quiet



Windows Storage Server 2008 R2

August 2, 2015, 11:29 am

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How do I re-establish connection to my server after installing windows 10?

Write Protection Error when backing up to mapped network drive

August 3, 2015, 10:49 am

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I have a backup running on a 2008 server which has not had problems in years. All of the sudden, the backups are failing and I am getting the following error in the event log....

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎02T22:31:07.594726500Z' has failed with following error code '2147942419'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

I don't see reference to '2147942419' online. Additionally, the Windows Server Backup error is saying that the backup failed because of a write protected disk.

I'm backing up 1TB drive that has two partitions (C 488GB and D 443GB). C completes, but the error occurs when backing up D. I have 3 other servers that are backing up fine to our NAS and I am starting to think that the write protection error is on the local D partition. 

Has anyone come across this before? Any solutions? 

Thanks,
Drew

How to exclude folders from System State backup?

August 24, 2015, 5:05 am

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Hi,

I am trying to configure server backup in 2008 R2 server. I need to exclude certain folder from System State backup. In the backup wizard, under select items for backup, I am selecting System State backup and in Advanced settings\add exclusions I am excluding a folder in C drive. This gets added there and I am able to schedule it. But when I edit the schedule again, this exclusion is disappeared. Please help me on this. We need to exclude this folder as this is related to some security software.

Is there any other way to exclude this folder?

Thanks,
Sarat U

Several Server 2008 & 2012 scheduled backup questions

August 24, 2015, 8:08 am

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I am using server backup for several 2008 & 2012 servers.

the backups are scheduled to run daily to a backup formatted USB external drive.  the drives are in a hard drive caddy, meaning that the drive can ejected and replaced with another naked drive. the backups are full backups and when queried returns full backup capability.

when doing a test to do a restore, i have booted from the install dvd and picked repair, the gui utility does not find the image.

what am i doing wrong ?

also, had a 2008 server crash(vhd) and AD got corrupted. did a boot using the repair AD and logged in as the local admin(was still unable to logon as the domain admin). used wbadmin to get versions. saw that system state was availble to restore. issued wbadmin to restore systemstate. returned msg that could not find.

booted a 2 year old vhd, the current scheduled backup disk was not listed in the backup disk list. is it still possible to use from command line or gui ?

thanks all

Windows SBS 2008 Windows Server Backup recovery problem

August 21, 2015, 8:04 am

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I am backing up to a NAS target using ISCSI with the Windows Server Backup tool. The only backup available for recovery (in bold) is the last one. I have been backing up to this device since April 2015, but looking at the Details of backups, 184 of them are from pre March 2013. I expected the new backups to start rolling off the old backups but it is only creating a current backup. Does anyone know what I have misconfigured or misunderstood about the way this should work?

Thanks for any help!

  

Windows Server Backup VSS Copy Option with Other Backup Programs

August 25, 2015, 9:12 am

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Windows Server Backup has an option to switch from VSS Full to VSS Copy. VSS Copy is supposed to be used if you are using other backup programs that use VSS to backup the same files, such as a Cloud Backup program.  The option states the VSS Copy option means the archive attribute won't be changed on the files.

It is my understanding the archive attribute is used to determine if a file has been changed for incremental backups.

However, then if you enabled VSS Copy, wouldn't Windows Server Backup no longer be able to perform differential/incremental backups?  Or, if another backup program is setting the attribute (because it doesn't have a VSS Copy option), that also seems to me it would prevent Windows Server Backup from distinguishing the modified files.  (FYI in this instance I'm using CloudBerry with Windows Server Backup).  

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Windows server 2012R2 Essential

August 25, 2015, 10:34 pm

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I have windows server 2012R2 Essential I am not able to take client backup

SQLWriter Non-Retryable Error State?

August 26, 2015, 1:54 am

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I have an issue with the SQLServerWriter VSS in a state: 8 Failed and last error a 'Non Retryable error'.

Whenever I try to use Windows Server backup to create a full system recovery image, it fails and BackupExec 12 cannot access our databases and fails also.

Quick run down of system in question:

- Windows Server 2008

- 2 X SQL 2012 BI instances

- 2GB RAM

Error event id's:

- 18210, 3041, 24583

Sqllib error: OLEDB Error encountered calling ICommandText::Execute. hr = 0x80040e14. SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3013
Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0
Error message: BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3202
Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0
Error message: Write on "{C0C35EF6-6FD4-4CC7-A0D9-2A361E783FBB}182" failed: 995(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105)

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

How to backup VMs in Windows Server backup on a weekly basis

August 27, 2015, 4:01 am

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Hello,

By default, Windows Server Backup can only create backups on a daily basis.

I want to configure Windows Server backup to backup the Hyper-V VMs on the server on a weekly basis (Windows Server 2012 R2).

In your experience, what is the best way to achieve this?

Thanks

Backup deletion troubleshoot

May 5, 2015, 2:30 am

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Hello

We have a Windows Server 2012 machine that runs a VSS full backup daily using Windows Server Backup to a dedicated partition.

It's been running fine for close to 2 years now and was automatically clearing old backups when space was needed.

We used to have about 250 backups available but for some reason even though there was space available it deleted all of them about 3 weeks ago.

I now have about 15 backups available and again even though there is enough free space it doesn't seem to retain all the backups it should.

I can't find anything useful in the logs and as far as I understand it there is no way for me to specify the backup retention period.

I would appreciate any help you can give me in troubleshooting this issue.

Thank you

The backup operation has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up

August 28, 2015, 1:58 am

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Hi,

Windows Server Backup fails on Windows Server 2012-R2 with this message:

"The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎27T22:30:39.228000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '0x8078006B'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved."

Found some articles about this error pointing to Windows Backup not supporting 4K drives. In my case, it is a 4K drive but I also confirmed that Windows Backup DOES support it on Windows Server 2012+ (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2510009).

I also re-installed the feature and checked for system and drive integrity.

Physical Hard drive is a WD 4TB drive. Volume is a 2TB basic partition (the only partition on that drive, along with a 9,39GB System Reserved volume). The rest is lost.

Thanks for any help.

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Thomas.