HI,
When setting up windows server backup there are options for backup to disk and backup to volume. I have a usb drive to backup to. WHat is the difference between backing up to volume and disk when backing up to usb drive. Is there performance difference or difference in way backup is performed, copies, etc.?
Thanks
Hello TN..
Quick background: We're running a Server 2008 x64 production box with Cobian Backup 11 "Gravity". Cobian is configured to perform hourly incremental backups from this server to a QNAP NAS.
The Application Event Log shows the following VSS errors:
(Event ID: 8194)
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005. This is often caused by incorrect security settings in either the writer or requestor process.
Operation:
Gathering Writer Data
Context:
Writer Class Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Name: System Writer
Writer Instance ID: {20a87df0-4f0c-48a4-895d-15aaf0e71a07}
...AND...
(Event ID: 12289)
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error VSS_E_WRITER_STATUS_NOT_AVAILABLE. An older active writer session state is being overwritten by a newer session. The most common cause is that the number of parallel backups has exceeded the maximum supported
limit. hr = 0x80042409.
Operation:
PostSnapshot Event
Context:
Maximum supported sessions: 64
Completed sessions: 8
Active sessions: 64
Aborted sessions: 0
Writer failed sessions: 0
New snaphot set: {7f368f47-5412-4f35-8760-d3c3268f8f49}
Old snapshot set: {07fdcf93-66cc-4b86-9b5b-e26c4e0d8b93}
Old operation: 1013
Old state: 5
Old failure: 0
Execution Context: Writer
Writer Class Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Name: FSRM Writer
I checked the vssadmin list writers and received the following:
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {61a94a56-291a-49cf-bbd2-60cda36b20f9}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {457252ce-6b15-4055-ae64-314469de1ece}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {d6db5d1c-fb18-46a5-98f7-525d233158fb}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {857dbcb4-dddb-41e4-a4f1-83fb68e59e6a}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {16021f6d-35b4-4b15-b5d3-d75497a18036}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {fdf0526f-e252-4a58-a37c-b3af806f1a7d}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {ab79fd8d-c1ce-40b5-8b49-bbc6f912e872}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {5507dd84-1dc4-4546-83fb-e5e7242a7ea7}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {923fa43e-7156-4e52-8af0-1961bf9c9c4a}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Pervasive.SQL VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {c186601a-f9a1-4824-a90c-9d45484a808b}
Writer Instance Id: {062f6ad2-7488-4fa9-8726-330a90915f49}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
...Any ideas of how I can rid the Event Log the above errors and how I can put the above writers in a "Stable" state? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Regards,
RoccoAG
Hi,
Please help me in providing the steps for taking Windows domain controller backup and restoring it. i had tried taking windows domain controller system state backup and failed many times.
My main intention is taking windows domain controller as system state backup and restoring it in another server when disaster happens.
Please help me in providing the steps.
Thanks in Advance.
I have machines with Windows 2012 R2 Core with Hyper-V role installed which is part of 2-node Hyper-V cluster. I've installed a Windows Server Backup feature on these core servers. I am using another separate windows 2012 R2 machine (with GUI) remotely and tried to perform a "backup once" on my Core servers and receive the error "the parameter is incorrect" as soon as I click on the "backup once" . Any one experiencing the same issue? Previously I am able to backup the same machines using the same method before I created the cluster. Backing up via powershell (Start-WBBackup) is fine but cannot perform the same steps via GUI Windows Server Backup from a remote machine. see below for error when clicking on the "Backup Once"
What is the solution to get past this Windows Server Backup (WSB) failure and error 2155348010? What is the correct process to have WSB use a 3TB external drive with 4096 sector size as the destination drive?
I am using a Western Digital (WD) Red 3TB drive in a usb 3.0 docking station as the WSB destination disk with the recommended destination setting (which appears to setup fine, but the schedule job fails after 385gb, so something worked).
The similar job works fine with WD Red 1TB drive, so it must be the 4096 sector size vs 512 size difference and VHD. I know there has been work done with 2012 to use 4096 sector size drives, but is this available in WSB with vhdx? Can vhdx be used instead of vhd with Windows Server 2012 Backup, and how to do it?
WD has a Quick Format tool which may work to emulate 512 sector size, but WSB reformats a new disk, so how to use the WD tool with WSB accepting the WD formatting?
There is a lengthy discussion at the following post (immediately scroll to the end), but not specific to Windows Server 2012. What is the MS recommendation for version 2012?
We set up a Scheduled Vss Copy Backup of several folders to copy to an empty volume that had 3.63 TB of free space. The backup was successful for the majority of the data, but several files failed with the following error:
Error in backup of <file path & file name> during write: Error [0x80070070] There is not enough space on the disk.
The odd thing is, the data transferred stopped at 1.99 TB even though the volume had more free space. We had 85,900 files that were not backed up and got this error.
Does Windows Server Backup have a limitation on a single backup 'data transfer' size? Why did it 'stop' writing data at 1.99 TB even though the drive had a capacity of 3.63 TB?
Thank you!
Elizabeth
Good Morning,
I am a server administrator but have no experience with Robocopy. I'm looking for a specific Robocopy command to use on a file share used by 300+ people.
This file share currently has about 2TB of data. What I'd like to do is move all folders/files older than 6 months to a backup drive on the same server. I would like to keep the folder/file structure as well as all file attributes (permissions, dated created/modified etc..).
Ideally I would like to automatically run this script every week (or month) and again find >6mo old folders/files and move them over to the backup drive.
I'm curious, if a folder has some 6mo old files and some 5mo old files, when the script is run the first time, will it grab only the old files - move them to the backup, then the next month when the script is run, will it grab the rest of the files and move them to the backup and re-add them to the same folder as the files that were previously moved over? (If that makes sense).
I want to make this as automated and clean as possible. Keeping the file structure is very important because down the road if a user needs to find a file, it must be in the same folder path as the original drive or it will be like finding a needle in a haystack :S.
Any help is appreciated.
TIA
Hi Guys, trying to figure how to get the amount of data transfered during the last "ran" backup job .
i found get-wbjob -previous 1 and with that i get start and end, but not the ammount of data transfered.
I know it runs a differential backup, but it would be nice to know how much data was transfered :(
Anthony Cartier-Info
Dear All,
We are using windows server backup from last 1 year, it was working file but from last 1 month getting backup failed. When i changed the destination its work for 3-5 days after then failed. Please find the bellow error report.
Error in Event log: The backup operation that started at '2015-06-04T20:30:41.958553100Z' has failed with following error code '2155348301'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Error in Backup console: there was a failure in updating the backup to remove deleted items....................
The operation was stopped.
Thanks.
Thanks, Manish
We've been running out of space on our CSVs. I determined that the hidden System Volume Information directory is huge. It is huge because of large VSS files in the directory.
Path to CSVsDoes MS have a set of PowerShell CMDLETS that will backup both the HOST/Hypervisor and the Guest OS's for their free bare metal Hypervisor?
** Never Mind. Found it by searching wbadmin.
Hi
I'm using server 2012R2 standard
How do I dismount a USB connected drive used by windows 2012 R2 backup?
It's not visible, and I found no place to safely dismount it.
David L.
Hello, all,
I have a question, when the windows backup option, I simply choose the system state and the drive (partition).
if I want to restore, use the backup file is no problem anything? there was no difference on files
thanks for your answer..
Reo
We have a Windows 2012 Domain Controller VM that we would like to backup the System State using DPM. Agent has been installed and the Windows Backup has been added.
When the backup runs in DPM, the job fails. Here is the error code:
When we try and create the backup using Windows Backup, the following error is in the log file:
We have tried attaching a separate drive and backup to a shared location. Both fail.
We have tried backup of just a few files on the DC instead of the System State, this fails as well.
All VSS Writers show as Stable with no errors
Server has the latest updates
Server has been rebooted, same issue
VM is Windows 2012 on a Windows 2008 R2 clustered host and is using Dynamic Disks (not fixed disks).
Anyone have any thoughts on what could be going on?
Cannot write to device ([1359] An internal error occurred. )
We are writing to an external steelstore device via CIFS shares. I've been working with both HP and the storage vendor for some time and they both indicate the issue doesn't appear on their end. HP believes this to be a communication issue with the operating system.
Backup Software: HP Data Protector 9.2
OS: Windows Server 2012 Std R2 fully patched
Steelstore by NetApp
search of the net hasn't returned any information on this error. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
hi,
I am using Server 2012 R2 on the host, and my guest cluster. I have a shared VHDX, and in the guest cluster I configure File Server role for general file server (not SOFS), this means the VHDX is owned by only one node at a time and is offline on the other nodes within the cluster. For this example I am using Windows Server Backup, but i can't see how this will work to backup the VHDX file from other nodes. I can only see the disk as being available from the node which owns the file server role and disk, the other nodes don't show the disk as being available for backup unless i move the ownership.
do i configure backup on each node at the time the node has ownership of the disk, and then if it gets moved away from it the backup will simply fail and when it moves back it will succeed, or am i missing some more simpler?
I can't use CSV because that is for SOFS, this is just a general file server role, and apparently backing up from the host level is currently not supported for machines which use shared VHDX files.
thanks
Steve
I have been having trouble with automated backups to a dedicated USB drive. I'm using a 3TB USB destination drive, backing up nightly. Total data and system on the server is < 1GB. I'm using all the default settings. It was working for a year, but now, after about 23 copies, it fails with:
Windows Backup encountered an error when writing data to the backup target.
Detailed error: There is not enough space on the disk
I have been using WBADMIN to delete the oldest 5 or 6 backups so it can keep going again for a few days, but it'll fill up again and not overwrite.
What should I do? I'm OK with this simple backup program, when it works. But I'm about to have the non-profit I'm helping buy some commercial program.
BTW, I didn't find any relevant posts on this specific problem.
Rich
Dear All,
I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am trying to put some new task in task scheduler but it is not happening giving some error. Please see attached snapshot.
I am not able tot create new task in that
Sanket