Hi, 

Since some time now i have not been able to use the Windows server backup tool anymore.

I cant really tell since when this started, but for all i know the windows server backup service worked fine.

I even created a backup schedule and it made some backups. 

I am running this windows server 2012 Standard at home with just a couple of basic applications.

The server is used to host several websites with IIS, it manages my local DHCP and is used for locally shared storage.

There are no other security applications installed yet, because i am trieing to get rid of this error first. (so no symantec or whatever)

Since some time i am having trouble opening the windows backup snap-in. 

When ever i trie to open the Windows server backup snap-in i get the following error:

A fatal error occurred during a Windows Server Backup snap-in (Wbadmin.msc) operation.

Error details: The Windows Server Backup service has stopped. 

Close Wbadmin.msc and then restart it.

Whenever this error occures the folowing error is show in the windows logbook:

I tried to find simmilar cases over the internet but i cant seem to find a solution for the problem. 

I already tried to remove and reinstall the Windows server backup feature, this did not help. 

Is there anyone here that can help me find a solution for this problem ?

Thank you !

Best Regards Maikel

Hi, everybody.

I am scheduling backup jobs in Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers with a user (say backupuser) which I added to the DOMAIN\Backup Operators group, but which is not a member of DOMAIN\Domain Admins

I also granted the Backup Operators group the user right to Allow logon through Terminal Services, and also added it to the Remote Desktop Users group, which allows me to RDP into the domain controllers with the backupuser account.

Backups run fine.  The problem I'm having is that when logged on with backupuser, and try to browse to C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup folder, I get the "You don't currently have permission to access this folder".  I input backupuser credentials when prompted, and doesn't let me in.

I RDP'd with DOMAIN\Administrator into the DC, checked NTFS permissions for the folder, and Backup Operators IS LISTED in the ACL.  However, I still cannot access the folder when logged on with backupuser.

Same thing for the <drive>\WindowsImageBackup folder.  ACL shows Backup Operators group with Full Control.  However, when logged in with backupuser, I cannot access it.

Hope you can shed some light on this.

Thanks and regards. 

What is the best way to create a full system image with Windows server 2008 R2 Std?  For instance, I would like to create a full system image of my server to a portable HD.  Lets say one day my server is stolen and I had to purchase a second server.  From that HD and Windows CD I want to be able to hit restore on this new server.   This new server works, functions, has all the programs, drivers, set up, etc like the first server.  Basically, I want to be able to create a full system image or back up that I could use to make clone of any server of the same brand.

Would I have to purchase a specific software for that?  Is 2008 R2 capable of this?

Responding in laymen terms would be highly appreciated since I am very new at this.

I TRY TO RUN BACKUP IN WINDOWS 7 AND I TRY TO CREATE A PARTITION (C: AND D:) BUT D CAN'T FIND...

SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH..

THANK'S pLSSS ANSWER ME ASAP...

Hi. Now i have installed Windows 7 on HDD 1 TB. I want migrate to SSD 256 GB.

I have create full backup (using Windows Backup) and try restory on SSD, and got error: your backup disk is more than a new drive. But backup size is 90 GB.
I can shrink volume, but till 50 % = 500 GB. How i can fixed it and restory on SSD (maybe i need new backup) ? If it is possible with this method.

Thanks.

Hi folks

on 2 different i hav shadow copy component backup failure both of them have same configuration,: MS windows 2008 R2 SP1 ver 6.1 build 7601, both physical server.

backup application which i using is symantec netbackup.

bcdedit output from server1

 bcdedit /enum

if u keenly look and compare output then 1 line is missing from output of server2 :

path                    \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi

question is why bootmgfw.efi path is missing from output of server2

 why there is difference in Windows Boot Manager configuration ?

please help me understand this. please explain in simple terms.

i have a remote site with only a 2008 r2 domain controller which acts as file server and dns server and has sql express.

there is a backup going on locally there for database backup but my concern is .

I would like to have my domain backedup , adds+dns, so that in case of crash I can rebuild a server and reload it  on.

I would like it to be scheduled and done on a remote server path. I know we can use windows backup for that. But I would like to know also in case I need to rebuild a server. how I need to procees to reload the backup on it.

I have done a test to see if restoring system state will resolve my problem.

"I backed up system state via wbadmin and created a virtual server 2008 ,simulating the new installation of the os. I used the webadmin tool after the os setup. But I am having the below message:

"The recovery of the system state failed [5/9/2013 4:44 PM].
Log of files successfully recovered:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\SystemStateRestore-09-05-2013_16-44-11.log

Log of files for which recovery failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\SystemStateRestore_Error-09-05-2013_16-44-11
.log

The backup contains the Active Directory Domain Service which can be recovered o
nly when the computer is started in Directory Services Recovery Mode (DSRM). Eit
her start the computer in DSRM or try recovering by performing a system state re
covery to an alternate location."

In my case, the server does not have any other domain controller, thus I will need to create back the domain and go in dsrm?

Hi everybody! Thank you in advance for looking and attempting to help!

Here is my scenario:

1. I connect with a Server 2008 R2 Server to a remote iSCSI (Software) Windows Server 2012 mount.
2. Run Windows backup to that iSCSI mount from Windows Server 2008 R2.
3. Disconnect the iSCSI mount on 2008 box.
4. Take the iSCSI target VHD file offline on the 2012 box.
All works fine so far.

Disaster testing...

1. I download the VHD file to the d drive of the 2008 server.
2. Boot into Windows PE
3. Mount the vhd file with diskpart
4. Make sure I can browse the vhd, so I know it is accessible.
All good so far...

(F is the VHD drive)

5. wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:f: -machine:srv1 <--- Here is where I receive VSS error

ERROR - A volume shadow copy service operation error has occured: (0x80042302)
A volume shadow copy service component encountered an unexpected error.
Check the application event log for more information.

I have tried this on multiple boxes with the same results...ANY HELP PLEASE :)

Thanks!

For data, we use a combination of external hard drives and backup tapes (nightly backups on weekdays).

Testing shows that we can recover data (restore it and access it) which is good...

But...

What about recovering entire servers?

We have a couple Windows 2008 servers. I do a full server backup to external hard drive (weekly).

What I would like to do is increase disk capacity on a server in another building of our "campus" and perform full server backups to this location.

Running the full server backups once a week to external hard drive while I do something else in the meantime is not *that* big a hassle but I'd like to automate so it would take place at night, once a week or even each night, to the remote location. If we can ever obtain the additional disk space (budget freeze after budget freeze, seems like relatively simple things can be so difficult to obtain).

Then someone recommended offsite backup - to another geographical location, not to another building 200 yards away, but miles away.

(Backup sets are currently stored in fireproof safes, one set in Building 1, another in Building 2).

The link between the two buildings is 1 Gigabit.

Upload speed on the Internet link is 1.5 Mbps (download 12 Mbps - on paper).

Uploading data on a link like that would be incredibly slow (full nightly backup is currently around 40 GB).

What kind of bandwidth would you need for entire servers?!!

Is anyone here backing up entire servers to offsite storage?

Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

Hello-

We've recently installed a 2012 Standard server that we want to use as a file/profile server, and are backing up to external hard drives. Since the drives are bit-locked, we have the external drives assigned to drive letters, which are then dedicated to the backup process. 

Backups to and recoveries from the drives work perfectly on the 2012 box. 

Since this is the only 2012 machine in our enterprise currently, we want to make sure we can recover user files and profiles in the event of a loss. 

I have the Bitlocker feature installed on a 2008 R2 server and am unable to unlock the drive. However, when I attempt to restore from the backup, the machine provides the following error:

"The system global catalog is corrupted."

I know the catalog is not corrupted, because I can immediately plug it back in to 2012 and recover from it. 

If I plug the drive into Windows 7 Pro, the system will prompt me to unlock it with Bitlocker. However, once that's done the backup software won't recognize the disk as a backup location.

So, the question comes down to whether there is a way to restore this backup on any other OS besides 2012? Is there a setting I need to enable on 2012 to allow a legacy OS to use the backup? A feature on 2008 that would allow restoring backups from future OSes?

Any ideas are welcome, and my apologies if this has an easy solution. No amount of keyword searching got me to what I wanted. 

Thank you!

I'm not understanding what Server 2012 is doing to my backups.  I created a backup report so I can keep an eye on my backups to make sure they are finishing using live data instead of event tracking which is a nightmare.  I gave myself a 3% variance between the actual used space on a server versus the backed up image.  This was fine in R2.  However now in Server 2012 the differences are not only way off but they make no sense at all....

Active Directory VM:

Used Space - 18.31GB

Backup Image - 20.27GB (huh???)

Where did the extra 2GB come from?  if I mount and open the VHD and look at the drive it's identical, 18.31 used.

Web Server VM:

Used -  40.90GB

Backup Image - 39.1GB

Oh look, magic!  If there's compression being used then my AD example above makes even less sense.

At any rate, 2012 completely borked this report.  Has anyone come up with any ideas to compare the size of a live 2012 server with the size of its Windows Image backup?

Thanks for any info!

Here is the event error:

The backup operation that started at '‎2013‎-‎05‎-‎11T05:20:25.793000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348249'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Things I have looked at:

I gave a drive letter to "System Reserved" Partition as F:

System Reserved partition is 100% full but I can not see why.

Looking for any shadows: no shadows left after I deleted all of them.

WSb Sceduled backup:

I deleted the scheduled back which was working for awhile and then recreated it the scheduled backup:

The backup fails with the error that there is not enough disk space.

During the recreation of the scheduled backup the process reformatted my drive L:

Drive L shows empty with 930GB in size and 11Mb in use.  

The full backup estimate is 327GB.

I tried running the backup from the elevated PS:

I assigned a drive letter to the backup drive to show the space free; drive H is the backup drive.

Might anyone have some other ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Hi Sir,

As windows server administrator , what are knowledge should want know ?

Hi,

I setup windows server backup(Windows Server 2008 R2) in a dedicated hard disk and recently i went to leave for 1 month.After came back from leave i found error in windows server backup management console showing not enough space to backed up and it is not opened. So i changed to another dedicated hard disk for taking backup and now it is working fine. Recently one user askme to retrieve data that he has deleted accedentally,but that data backup in old dedicated hard disk.So how can i retrieve the backup from the old HD.

Regards,

Venkata

We have a issue with our Server 2012 Standard server with Exchange 2010 running Windows Server Backup.  The backup is freezing the server to an extent that mouse and keyboard are frozen, the server does not ping and you are unable to send any sort of reboot command to the device.  It is a case we have to hard reset the server.

The configuration of the server is such: OS and Exchange installed on C drive, Exchange Data and Logs on D drive.  Full server backup configured to backup to dedicated disk in the server.  I am able to create and amend the backup schedule without issue and have checked I have the relevant VSS writers which are showing working status.  Upon the system freeze the event log stops, after reboot I have examined the logs which shows the VSS writers enabling and Shadow Copy status (there are no errors only informational).  The server is installed on the hardware so is not a virtual machine.

Upon first configuration of the windows backup it was working for several days but has then gone into the locking state.  I tried recreating the backup and reformatting the dedicated disk to no avail.  I am currently investigating dedicated backup applications for the server but still have a concern that if they are using any of the inbuilt backup technologies I may end up with the same issue.

Server is full patched with Windows Updates and Hardware is only 4 months old.

I have read several articles to ensure I have the backup correctly configured, eg. setting it to VSS Full Backup, rather than copy.

Hi,

I am not sure if you can help me out with this, but if you know of some way, or some software that can do this it would be greatly appreciated. I currently have a server with Windows 2003 on it. It has a domain, but only roughly 15 users, and only really hosts a network drive. All in all there is a roughly 300GB of data. I need to keep basically a mirrored copy of this server for disaster purposes.  (office gets burnt down etc). 

If the server got destroyed then with this mirrored server I would then be able to let my employees run off the server remotely while another mirrored server is sent down to the new location to be installed. The mirrored server needs to be updated everyday as we mainly only use one software, but it obviously uses a SQL DB that is constantly changing and thus needs to be constantly backed up.

Does anyone know of a software that can perform this sort of function? I have three servers in total that I need this done to (I have spare servers that I may use), but the three servers only add up to around 300GB of data. 

Once the servers are mirrored there will only need to be updates to a small amount of data everyday so that everyday the servers are mirrored, and ready to go.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestions? Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thank You

Jamie G.

Recently started having a few problems backup up one of my Hyper-V servers. Its a server 2008 R2 box running pretty much just the hyper-v roll.

There are 4 VM's:

* SBS01 = Small Business Server 2011 Standard

* APP01 = Server 2008 R2 Standard

* W7E01/W7E02 = 2x Win 7 for testing/etc

Backups on SBS01/APP01 run without issue. The Win 7 VM's dont backup. The problem is with the hosts (HVS01) backups, they always fail with the below error in event log.

vssadmin list writers also shows up an error for the "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" (also included below).

I've noticed that when I try to run a backup maunally, APP01 will go into a saved state, then SBS01/W7E0* will "Create VSS snapshop set" (and stay running), then APP01 will come back up. The reason I mention this as being a bit strange is because all 4 VM's have the 'Backup (Volume snapshot)' option selected under integration services. So I would expect none of them to be entering a saved state.

On the subject on IS... I have checked the version number on the host and VM's and they are all the same (6.0.7601.17514)

I've also tried the usual delete/recreate backups, backup to different location, etc. All with no result.

If anyone is able to point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

========== EVENT LOG ==========

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          27/03/2012 4:09:33 AM
Event ID:      521
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      HVS01.domain.local
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2012‎-‎03‎-‎26T17:00:39.891000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" />
    <EventID>521</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-03-26T17:09:33.208964000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>5240</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="5992" ThreadID="5184" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>HVS01.domain.local</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2012-03-26T17:00:39.891000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorCode">2155348129</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348129</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

========== VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS ==========

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Writer name: 'Task Scheduler Writer'
   Writer Id: {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
   Writer Instance Id: {1bddd48e-5052-49db-9b07-b96f96727e6b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'VSS Metadata Store Writer'
   Writer Id: {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
   Writer Instance Id: {088e7a7d-09a8-4cc6-a609-ad90e75ddc93}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Performance Counters Writer'
   Writer Id: {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
   Writer Instance Id: {f0086dda-9efc-47c5-8eb6-a944c3d09381}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
   Writer Instance Id: {a26a4279-edf8-40b0-8987-292f26b0e2d6}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: Unexpected error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {82d1a0a5-a2c9-411c-9220-ee646d8c572e}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {3e731784-6b46-4533-b6ec-bfc9c2632e05}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {ff42ee3f-5ee8-4123-b8d9-595f52b6eb6e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {51bc7f59-417a-4f4d-82bf-58aa022cb964}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {c834063a-5d07-44d8-a214-d2be1c6b4f57}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {38bcc839-eed0-44d8-a64f-c79a32746a0b}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {143ee2f9-c44d-4f9f-83cc-34f2ab989b6a}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

We have a couple of Windows Server 2012 machines we need to back up. I have set up an Openfiler box to store all the backups on. I've created a couple iSCSI LUN's and attached them to the machines to back up to. For the Exchange server, it works perfectly fine, but for one of the DC's it fails. They are both configured the exact same way.

In the application log, I see:

The backup operation that started at '‎2013‎-‎05‎-‎08T14:10:16.128584700Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800C5' (There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

In the Backup_Error log, it just says "Backup of volume C: has failed. The specified backup disk cannot be found."

The disk is there just fine, it even creates the whole "WindowsImageBackup" folder structure.

Hi there,  i have a question about restoring a server backup to different sized partition.  

my situation is: 

im currently running a raid 10 configuration (hp smart array) using 4 * 2Tb HDD's with a total 4Tb of usable storage space.

at the time of partitioning i didn't realize my server hardware doesn't support GPT booting. I created 1 logical drive with a total space allocation of 4TB, now of course when windows formats the drive I end up with only 2TB of usable storage (MBR restriction)

What i would like to do is, delete the logical drive (since i cant re size it) and create 2 new logical drives, the first being a 250GB C drive (MBR), and the second, a 3.75TB storage drive (GPT). So basically my question is,  can i backup all my current server settings, files and system state and be able to restore it to the new 250gb logical drive?  

i believe the total space being used on the current drive is 80gb of 2tb. 

i would really apprecaite any help or advice!

thank you for your time!