So I want to upgrade my Dell R220 from (2) 500GB HDD in a RAID 1 to (2) 4TB HDD in a RAID 1, but I know I need to change the from MBR to GPT to get full use of the 4TB virtual disk.  The steps I took:

- I was able to successfully create a Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) image using Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008 R2 and save that image to an external disk.

- Then removed the (2) old drives and installed the (2) new drives in the server

- Successfully created a new virtual disk in RAID 1 with my Perc H310 RAID adapter software at boot-up

- Then booted from a Win Server 2008 R2 DVD, used the command line to install my Perc driver, see the virtual disk, then used diskpart in the cmd console to clean the drive and convert it to GPT.  

- Then was able to successfully recover my BMR image, it loaded, successfully installed and rebooted.

And voila, I ended back at square one with a MBR disk instead of a GPT disc and I can't use the full capacity of my 4TB RAID virtual disc.

Any suggestions?  My last ditch effort is to manually back-up my files, re-install Win Server 2008 R2 with a fresh install,  re-install/restore my ADDS components, re-install various programs, etc.. which is a nightmare.

Thanks for any help or insight!

Volume backups succeed with 1.13 GiB of data.

However, backups fail on the same volume when I increase the data to 50.2 GiB.

The target volume is a thinly provisioned 1 TiB iSCSI drive that WBAdmin formatted and dedicated entirely for backups. It takes WBAdmin an unusually long time (tens of minutes) to quickly format the drive. Yet data transfers fairly quickly: the 1.13 GiB backup completes in 1 minute.

During backup, WBAdmin snap-in reports transfer complete and compacting begin: compact stays 0% for a minute or so, jumps to 6%, stays for another couple of minutes, fails. I think it's timing out.

I've tried backups with and without deduplication, small (1.13 GiB) or large (96.86 GiB): large backups fail regardless of deduplication, small backups succeed regardless of deduplication. Only size seems to matter.

Backup Source

• Physical data: 50.2 GiB (deduplicated)
• Logical data: 96.86 GiB
• Volume: 256 GiB
• File system: NTFS
• Allocation unit size: 16 KiB
• Storage device: locally attached hard drive

Backup Target

• Volume: 1 TiB
• File system: NTFS
• Allocation unit size: 4 KiB (WBAdmin defaults)
• Storage device: thinly provisioned iSCSI

Event Log

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Backup

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          8/29/2015 10:21:35 PM
Event ID:      5
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      ctu-testvm
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎30T01:00:04.242823700Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780049' (None of the items included in backup were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" />
    <EventID>5</EventID>
    <Version>3</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-08-30T02:21:35.117902000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>144</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="1784" ThreadID="3648" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Backup</Channel>
    <Computer>ctu-testvm</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTemplateID">{F17F4B95-4214-4706-8D56-0F1BB0F9288F}</Data>
    <Data Name="HRESULT">0x80780049</Data>
    <Data Name="DetailedHRESULT">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348041</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupState">12</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2015-08-30T01:00:04.242823700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTarget">ctu-tes 2015_08_29 18:25 DISK_01</Data>
    <Data Name="NumOfVolumes">1</Data>
    <Data Name="VolumesInfo">&lt;VolumeInfo&gt;&lt;VolumeInfoItem Name="D:" OriginalAccessPath="D:" State="17" HResult="-2139618991" DetailedHResult="-2147024865" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="0" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="0" IsCompacted="1" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="104003403776" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="104003403776" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="8200" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /&gt;&lt;/VolumeInfo&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceSnapStartTime">2015-08-30T01:00:04.242823700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceSnapEndTime">2015-08-30T01:00:09.712054300Z</Data>
    <Data Name="PrepareBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.820Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PrepareBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.961Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupWriteStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.961Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupWriteEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T02:20:34.289Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSnapStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSnapEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="DVDFormatStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="DVDFormatEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="MediaVerifyStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="MediaVerifyEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupPreviousState">17</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentStatus">&lt;ComponentStatus&gt;&lt;/ComponentStatus&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentInfo">&lt;ComponentInfo&gt;&lt;/ComponentInfo&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBEnumerateStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBEnumerateEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBBackupStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBBackupEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemStateBackup">&lt;SystemState IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" /&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BMR">&lt;BMR IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" /&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="VssFullBackup">true</Data>
    <Data Name="UserInputBMR">false</Data>
    <Data Name="UserInputSSB">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupSuccessLogPath">C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupFailureLogPath">C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log</Data>
    <Data Name="EnumerateBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="EnumerateBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PruneBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PruneBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupFlags">0x8</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentInfoSummary">&lt;ComponentInfoSummary ComponentInfoArrayPresent="1" TotalComponents="0" SucceededComponents="0" /&gt;</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log

Backup of volume D: succeeded.

C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log: blank

Anyone know what's going wrong and what to do?

Good Day everybody here,

How are you all?

I have a very simple question, suppose I will use the Windows Server Backup tool to backup my server as Bare Metal backup (either VM or physical server, which works as DC, DNS, Web..or any), now my question: can I restore this backup to different physical machine or VM??

Thanks
Best Regards

Volume backups succeed with 1.13 GiB of data.

However, backups fail on the same volume when I increase the data to 50.2 GiB.

The target volume is a thinly provisioned 1 TiB iSCSI drive that WBAdmin formatted and dedicated entirely for backups. It takes WBAdmin an unusually long time (tens of minutes) to quickly format the drive. Yet data transfers fairly quickly: the 1.13 GiB backup completes in 1 minute.

During backup, WBAdmin snap-in reports transfer complete and compacting begin: compact stays 0% for a minute or so, jumps to 6%, stays for another couple of minutes, fails. I think it's timing out.

I've tried backups with and without deduplication, small (1.13 GiB) or large (96.86 GiB): large backups fail regardless of deduplication, small backups succeed regardless of deduplication. Only size seems to matter.

Backup Source

• Physical data: 50.2 GiB (deduplicated)
• Logical data: 96.86 GiB
• Volume: 256 GiB
• File system: NTFS
• Allocation unit size: 16 KiB
• Storage device: locally attached hard drive

Backup Target

• Volume: 1 TiB
• File system: NTFS
• Allocation unit size: 4 KiB (WBAdmin defaults)
• Storage device: thinly provisioned iSCSI

Event Log

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Backup

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          8/29/2015 10:21:35 PM
Event ID:      5
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      ctu-testvm
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎30T01:00:04.242823700Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780049' (None of the items included in backup were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" />
    <EventID>5</EventID>
    <Version>3</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-08-30T02:21:35.117902000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>144</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="1784" ThreadID="3648" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Backup</Channel>
    <Computer>ctu-testvm</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTemplateID">{F17F4B95-4214-4706-8D56-0F1BB0F9288F}</Data>
    <Data Name="HRESULT">0x80780049</Data>
    <Data Name="DetailedHRESULT">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348041</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupState">12</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2015-08-30T01:00:04.242823700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTarget">ctu-tes 2015_08_29 18:25 DISK_01</Data>
    <Data Name="NumOfVolumes">1</Data>
    <Data Name="VolumesInfo">&lt;VolumeInfo&gt;&lt;VolumeInfoItem Name="D:" OriginalAccessPath="D:" State="17" HResult="-2139618991" DetailedHResult="-2147024865" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="0" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="0" IsCompacted="1" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="104003403776" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="104003403776" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="8200" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /&gt;&lt;/VolumeInfo&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceSnapStartTime">2015-08-30T01:00:04.242823700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceSnapEndTime">2015-08-30T01:00:09.712054300Z</Data>
    <Data Name="PrepareBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.820Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PrepareBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.961Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupWriteStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.961Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupWriteEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T02:20:34.289Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSnapStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSnapEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="DVDFormatStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="DVDFormatEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="MediaVerifyStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="MediaVerifyEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupPreviousState">17</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentStatus">&lt;ComponentStatus&gt;&lt;/ComponentStatus&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentInfo">&lt;ComponentInfo&gt;&lt;/ComponentInfo&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBEnumerateStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBEnumerateEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBBackupStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBBackupEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemStateBackup">&lt;SystemState IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" /&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BMR">&lt;BMR IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" /&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="VssFullBackup">true</Data>
    <Data Name="UserInputBMR">false</Data>
    <Data Name="UserInputSSB">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupSuccessLogPath">C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupFailureLogPath">C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log</Data>
    <Data Name="EnumerateBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="EnumerateBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PruneBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PruneBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupFlags">0x8</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentInfoSummary">&lt;ComponentInfoSummary ComponentInfoArrayPresent="1" TotalComponents="0" SucceededComponents="0" /&gt;</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log

Backup of volume D: succeeded.

C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log: blank

Anyone know what's going wrong and what to do?

Brand new to Server 2012 R2 Essentials so please forgive my lack of knowledge.<o:p></o:p>

In installing a RAID 5 array consisting of 5 drives each at 5TB I found that the
backup service will not initiate. When I try to configure backup of 'C' drive
consisting of OS only and 'D' RAID array consisting of all 'Shared Folders' I
get the following error message "Cannot complete the Set up Server Backup
Wizard". The size of the array is 17.3TB NTFS and I have it backing up to a
16.2TB NTFS pool created using the servers 'Storage Pool'. Currently there is no
data on any server folders, totally blank. Note: the RAID 5 array was created
using Intel RST off of the C226 chip on my server motherboard. <o:p></o:p>

In checking the RAID array using the Servers check disk it comes back with it being OK. It
appears to be working perfectly. I tested the backup pool when the server
folders were located on the primary drive SSD drive which is used purely for
the OS but wanted to test the backup process before offloading the shared folders
to the RAID array. This process worked perfectly.<o:p></o:p>

Am I missing something or failed to complete a setup? Literally I installed the OS,
added one client computer via the connector, created the drive pool and
then tested. Then created the RAID array.....which took 9 days to initialize
and then moved the shared folders to the array and then tried to test the backup.
That's when the error message started to occur. <o:p></o:p>

Thank you<o:p></o:p>

Hello Everyone, 

My server running in windows server 2012. Recently the Window Backup Failed due to

Error in deletion of [E:\System Volume Information\001.dat] while pruning the target VHD: Error [0x80070020] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Anyone facing this issue before? 

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Nicolas 

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:
------------------

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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}

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

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

Hi I wonder if anyone could help with this problem. I am using a fresh install of Windows 10 and keep getting these event ID's coming up. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Event ID 10016

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}
 and APPID
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}
 to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Thank You for any help with this.

Alan

Hi,

We just upgraded our Server 2008 to a Server 2012R2. The backup is sent to a shared network drive. We had greater transfer speed with 2008 and are trying to find a solution on 2012R2. Any suggestions?

We tried choosing High Preformance in the Power Option.

Hi,

Running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, I've made a backup of files and folders on our old server using Windows Server Backup to an USB-drive. Then the motherboard got fried and I am now trying to restore these files on a new server.

When I use Windows Server Backup interface I can't select the USB-drive. So I try to do it through the Dashboard but then I get an error saying that there are no backups configured. If I agree to continue and configure a backup and select the USB-drive it prompts me to format it, which I don't want to cause then I lose my backup.

Anyone have an idea how I can access my backup?

Thanks in advance,

Roger

Hi,

I've a requirement from a client for redundancy. He wants to run a database application in two identical servers simultaneously. The servers shall be connected in one subnet and will act like mirror copies. If one of the servers goes down, the other shall keep on functioning with no down time and once functioning back can be added back to the system without affecting the other and the database must be updated (hot redundancy). Any solution on Microsoft based. ?

Hi,

I have Server 2012 R2 on my site.  I also installed Server Essential Experience on server. Using Server Essentials dashboard i configured backup and everything worked well.

Yesterday i installed new standalone HDD in the server (for backup purpose). I used Server essentials dashboard to move Client Computer Backup folder to location on the new disk. After doing so the backup stopped working. When i try to set up backup for client computer i get error message (see image1)

Also when i try to change backup settings i get this error

Here are some of the events from event viewer.

It is important to say that when i change client backup folder to original location everything works again. Any clues ?

doing a test restore for a server 2008 std sp2 system from dell.

i've got the windows image backup on a disk and i dont have a dell server 2008 std install disk but i have a server 2008 std from the volume license.

when i boot the install media i get the msg that this is the wrong restore version.

is it because its not dell ?

If i take a vhd of a windows 2008 std server and the real server is using the windows server backup utility to take scheduled backups to usb hard drives every night. will the vhd be able to restore current  files from those backups if the vhd  was created before some of those backups were taken ? the backup drives are know to the vhd.

thanks.