One of our clients with a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials server is suddenly having an issue with the scheduled backups failing yet the manual backups succeed. This has appeared out of the blue and both my colleague and I are unable to determine what might be the cause. The following is the log when it fails...
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The description for Event ID 5 from source Microsoft-Windows-Backup cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
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C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-13-08-2017_11-30-12.log
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Does anyone have any clue what the problem might be and how to go about resolving it. All of the backup drives are new.