I back-up my WS2012 R2 Essentials to a local HDD, attached via USB to the server. worked fine until a couple of weeks aga when I sterted getting errors.
After reading up on the forum I opened compmgmt.msc and looked at the local backup tab. When chacking one of the failed backup , under 'Items' it tells me:
EFI System partition:Compacting the virtual harddisks..
C: Completed
Recovery: Completed
Bare metal Recovery:Backup failed to complete
Under 'Errors' it give the same error message for both the EFI system partition and the Bare metal recovery:
There was a failure while compacting the virtual hard disk on the backup location. Detailed error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
Since I'm really an amateur and the server is just a hobby, I'm unsure on how to fix this error. Hope someone can help!
Thanks,
Bert-Jan