Just received a new dell server that will replace our current main server in the next month or so. Have installed WS 2016 standard, but may have to replace with WS 2012 R2 if our EMR vendor doesn't begin supporting WS 2016 by then; this post is likely relevant to both.
The new server has a single 3.27 TB RAID 10 partition, and the old server running WS 2012 (not R2) has a single 1.6 TB RAID 5 partition.
Our normal backups from the old server are nightly LTO full backups on weeknights, with a monthly image backup for disaster recovery to NAS using novabackup server edition, for which we have a single license.
I would like to use windows server backup to make full bare metal recovery backups as needed during configuration of the new server to an internal dell RD1000 removable HD, an external USB 3 HD and the NAS unit, then transfer the license for novabackup to the new server when we retire the old server, and start using the internal LTO-7 tape drive on the new server, with continued monthly image backups to the NAS unit.
The partition on the new server currently has only 22GB data, as is primarily the OS installation with some dell utilities and minimal other software.
Windows server backup fails after attempting to back up the RAID 10 partition to the internal RD1000 HD with the following error -
Backup of volume C: has failed. Volumes larger than 16777216 megabytes cannot be protected.
WSB ran without error backing up to the NAS unit, but with a warning that the backup could not be protected. I have a few new USB 3 external HDs on order, so can't test them yet, but hope that they will work as well.
What is causing this problem? The RAID 10 partition volume size is listed as 3349.49 GB in Disk Management, so not sure where the incorrect volume size originates. I didn't see any options to turn off protection of the backup to the internal RD1000 removable HD.
Thanks