Good morning technet-ers.
So I have two questions today. One about BMR and another about a failing backup.
First question: So I work for a small IT firm and we're managing a couple of servers for a client. The first of which is a virtualization host running hyper-v and the second is a file server. The first server has been failing backups due to lack of space on the i-scsi volume. This is because the backup was also backing up the VM files as well. They are currently stored on a seperate, local volume apart from the OS. All our VM's back themselves up to another NAS device. So we've tried tried to remove the volume with the VM files off of the backup schedual, but it says that the volume is required for the Bare Metal Recovery. Is there a way to move that volume off?
Second question:
With the second server we've been having constant failures to back up the server. We're doing a full back up, system state and BMR. Whenever it tries to initiate it gives an error: 2147942401 "Incorrect Function".
When inspecting the backup logs I notice that the backup stops on the recovery partition (Says preparing) but doesn't get further then that. I've tried shrinking the volume by 10mb (I've read that it may be because it can't read the last sector in the volume)
but that hasn't helped. I've tried removing the recovery partition from the backup, but it's telling me it needs the recovery partition for BMR.
So any insight on this would be great!
Thanks