I am testing "bare metal" recovery of backups from a Windows Server 2012 machine. I have already tested restoring individual files, and I am able to successfully restore those from the server.
What I have done is to start another machine off the Windows 2012 installation DVD and attempt a bare metal restore. I went into repair, and then system image recovery. I attempted to restore from a network file share. It finds no backups. I also copied the Windows Image Backup folder to a local drive in the other machine and pointed it there. Nothing.
I then pressed shift-F10 to open a command prompt. I ran
wbadmin get versions -backupTarget:\\[servername]\k
Where [servername] is the name of the server and k is the share. I get the message:
No backup was found.
If I do a dir on the path, I can see WindowsImageBackup and then a folder with the server name under that, and further down.
If I do wbadmin get versions from the server itself, it lists the backups properly.
What am I doing wrong?