This seems to be a problem that has come up before in these forums - I have been through several threads and none of the suggestions have helped fix server backup.

I am trying to perform a System State and C: backup (for Bare Metal Recovery) - backup is to a local drive (so not a NAS or a Network Share). Server Backup used to work but stopped sometime around the time I switched the backup drive (which was running out of space).

Backup fails both from the scheduled Server Essentials Dashboard and also manually using wbadmin. For example:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:P: -include:c: -allcritical -vssfull -quiet > "c:\Temp\Server Backup.log"

Gives the following output:

Hello

I'm currently using the following command as a batch file and a scheduled task to backup our 2008 R2 server to our remote storage server. 

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\remote\backup\oreo -include:C: -allcritical -vssFull -quiet

I'd like to also backup its second partition the D drive.

Do I just add another line in the batch file for the D partition as below or is there a better way?

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\remote\backup\oreo -include:C: -allcritical -vssFull -quiet

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\remote\backup\oreo -include:D: -allcritical -vssFull -quiet



Hi,

I am trying to configure server backup in 2008 R2 server. I need to exclude certain folder from System State backup. In the backup wizard, under select items for backup, I am selecting System State backup and in Advanced settings\add exclusions I am excluding a folder in C drive. This gets added there and I am able to schedule it. But when I edit the schedule again, this exclusion is disappeared. Please help me on this. We need to exclude this folder as this is related to some security software.

Is there any other way to exclude this folder?

Thanks,
Sarat U

I am using server backup for several 2008 & 2012 servers.

the backups are scheduled to run daily to a backup formatted USB external drive.  the drives are in a hard drive caddy, meaning that the drive can ejected and replaced with another naked drive. the backups are full backups and when queried returns full backup capability.

when doing a test to do a restore, i have booted from the install dvd and picked repair, the gui utility does not find the image.

what am i doing wrong ?

also, had a 2008 server crash(vhd) and AD got corrupted. did a boot using the repair AD and logged in as the local admin(was still unable to logon as the domain admin). used wbadmin to get versions. saw that system state was availble to restore. issued wbadmin to restore systemstate. returned msg that could not find.

booted a 2 year old vhd, the current scheduled backup disk was not listed in the backup disk list. is it still possible to use from command line or gui ?

thanks all

This problem was first encountered on an IBM x3650 in a cluster with an IBM x3550 for failover, however this problem is reproducible on a server running HyperV not part of a cluster.

When I try to run a VM based backup from inside the VM using the server backup utility to E: drive(which is an attached vhdx file). It fails with this error

Backup failed to complete. There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy on the storage location. make sure that, for all volumes to be backup up, the minimum required disk space

for shadow copy creation is available. This applies to both the backup storage destination and volumes included in the backup. Minimum requirements: For Volume less than 500 megabytes, the minimum is 50 megabytes of free space. For volumes more than 500 megabytes, the minimum is 320 megabytes of free space. Recommended: At least 1 gigabyte of free disk space for each volume if the volume size is more than 1 gigabyte.

Detailed Error: Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data.

In the event viewer I see this error

EventID: 521 The backup operation that started at '‎TIME’ 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 '0x80780119'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

This problem was not happening in our test setup using Server 2012 R2 MSDN copy, before rolling out to production  using ourVolume license copy of server.So as a test I installed two VMs on a Host(MSDN), one VM using our MSDN copy of server and one with our  Volume license copy of server,very simple install, install Windows backup, attach VHDx file and attempt bare metal backup. The MSDN copy is able to perform the bare metal backup. TheVolume license copy fails with the above errors.

Has anyone else run into this problem? Or any ideas on where to look to see the differences between the two VMs that is stopping the backup from completing?

Windows Server Backup has an option to switch from VSS Full to VSS Copy. VSS Copy is supposed to be used if you are using other backup programs that use VSS to backup the same files, such as a Cloud Backup program.  The option states the VSS Copy option means the archive attribute won't be changed on the files.

It is my understanding the archive attribute is used to determine if a file has been changed for incremental backups.

However, then if you enabled VSS Copy, wouldn't Windows Server Backup no longer be able to perform differential/incremental backups?  Or, if another backup program is setting the attribute (because it doesn't have a VSS Copy option), that also seems to me it would prevent Windows Server Backup from distinguishing the modified files.  (FYI in this instance I'm using CloudBerry with Windows Server Backup).  

I have an issue with the SQLServerWriter VSS in a state: 8 Failed and last error a 'Non Retryable error'.

Whenever I try to use Windows Server backup to create a full system recovery image, it fails and BackupExec 12 cannot access our databases and fails also.

Quick run down of system in question:

- Windows Server 2008

- 2 X SQL 2012 BI instances

- 2GB RAM

Error event id's:

- 18210, 3041, 24583

Sqllib error: OLEDB Error encountered calling ICommandText::Execute. hr = 0x80040e14. SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3013
Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0
Error message: BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3202
Error state: 1, Severity: 16
Source: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0
Error message: Write on "{C0C35EF6-6FD4-4CC7-A0D9-2A361E783FBB}182" failed: 995(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105)

Hello,

By default, Windows Server Backup can only create backups on a daily basis.

I want to configure Windows Server backup to backup the Hyper-V VMs on the server on a weekly basis (Windows Server 2012 R2).

In your experience, what is the best way to achieve this?

Thanks

Hello

We have a Windows Server 2012 machine that runs a VSS full backup daily using Windows Server Backup to a dedicated partition.

It's been running fine for close to 2 years now and was automatically clearing old backups when space was needed.

We used to have about 250 backups available but for some reason even though there was space available it deleted all of them about 3 weeks ago.

I now have about 15 backups available and again even though there is enough free space it doesn't seem to retain all the backups it should.

I can't find anything useful in the logs and as far as I understand it there is no way for me to specify the backup retention period.

I would appreciate any help you can give me in troubleshooting this issue.

Thank you

Using the WSB utility, I get the following error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

I ran the utility through powershell and got the same error.  I checked the log files and get this error "Error in deletion of [C:\System Volume Information\001.dat] while pruning the target VHD: Error [0x80070020] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

Looked at resource monitor and system constantly has access to the file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi,

Windows Server Backup fails on Windows Server 2012-R2 with this message:

"The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎27T22:30:39.228000000Z' 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 '0x8078006B'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved."

Found some articles about this error pointing to Windows Backup not supporting 4K drives. In my case, it is a 4K drive but I also confirmed that Windows Backup DOES support it on Windows Server 2012+ (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2510009).

I also re-installed the feature and checked for system and drive integrity.

Physical Hard drive is a WD 4TB drive. Volume is a 2TB basic partition (the only partition on that drive, along with a 9,39GB System Reserved volume). The rest is lost.

Thanks for any help.

Thomas.

So I want to upgrade my Dell R220 from (2) 500GB HDD in a RAID 1 to (2) 4TB HDD in a RAID 1, but I know I need to change the from MBR to GPT to get full use of the 4TB virtual disk.  The steps I took:

- I was able to successfully create a Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) image using Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008 R2 and save that image to an external disk.

- Then removed the (2) old drives and installed the (2) new drives in the server

- Successfully created a new virtual disk in RAID 1 with my Perc H310 RAID adapter software at boot-up

- Then booted from a Win Server 2008 R2 DVD, used the command line to install my Perc driver, see the virtual disk, then used diskpart in the cmd console to clean the drive and convert it to GPT.  

- Then was able to successfully recover my BMR image, it loaded, successfully installed and rebooted.

And voila, I ended back at square one with a MBR disk instead of a GPT disc and I can't use the full capacity of my 4TB RAID virtual disc.

Any suggestions?  My last ditch effort is to manually back-up my files, re-install Win Server 2008 R2 with a fresh install,  re-install/restore my ADDS components, re-install various programs, etc.. which is a nightmare.

Thanks for any help or insight!

Volume backups succeed with 1.13 GiB of data.

However, backups fail on the same volume when I increase the data to 50.2 GiB.

The target volume is a thinly provisioned 1 TiB iSCSI drive that WBAdmin formatted and dedicated entirely for backups. It takes WBAdmin an unusually long time (tens of minutes) to quickly format the drive. Yet data transfers fairly quickly: the 1.13 GiB backup completes in 1 minute.

During backup, WBAdmin snap-in reports transfer complete and compacting begin: compact stays 0% for a minute or so, jumps to 6%, stays for another couple of minutes, fails. I think it's timing out.

I've tried backups with and without deduplication, small (1.13 GiB) or large (96.86 GiB): large backups fail regardless of deduplication, small backups succeed regardless of deduplication. Only size seems to matter.

Backup Source

• Physical data: 50.2 GiB (deduplicated)
• Logical data: 96.86 GiB
• Volume: 256 GiB
• File system: NTFS
• Allocation unit size: 16 KiB
• Storage device: locally attached hard drive

Backup Target

• Volume: 1 TiB
• File system: NTFS
• Allocation unit size: 4 KiB (WBAdmin defaults)
• Storage device: thinly provisioned iSCSI

Event Log

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Backup

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          8/29/2015 10:21:35 PM
Event ID:      5
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      ctu-testvm
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎08‎-‎30T01:00:04.242823700Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780049' (None of the items included in backup were backed up.). 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>5</EventID>
    <Version>3</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-08-30T02:21:35.117902000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>144</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="1784" ThreadID="3648" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Backup</Channel>
    <Computer>ctu-testvm</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTemplateID">{F17F4B95-4214-4706-8D56-0F1BB0F9288F}</Data>
    <Data Name="HRESULT">0x80780049</Data>
    <Data Name="DetailedHRESULT">0x0</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348041</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupState">12</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2015-08-30T01:00:04.242823700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupTarget">ctu-tes 2015_08_29 18:25 DISK_01</Data>
    <Data Name="NumOfVolumes">1</Data>
    <Data Name="VolumesInfo">&lt;VolumeInfo&gt;&lt;VolumeInfoItem Name="D:" OriginalAccessPath="D:" State="17" HResult="-2139618991" DetailedHResult="-2147024865" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="0" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="0" IsCompacted="1" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="104003403776" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="104003403776" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="8200" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /&gt;&lt;/VolumeInfo&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceSnapStartTime">2015-08-30T01:00:04.242823700Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SourceSnapEndTime">2015-08-30T01:00:09.712054300Z</Data>
    <Data Name="PrepareBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.820Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PrepareBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.961Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupWriteStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T01:00:10.961Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupWriteEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="2015-08-30T02:20:34.289Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSnapStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="TargetSnapEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="DVDFormatStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="DVDFormatEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="MediaVerifyStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="MediaVerifyEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupPreviousState">17</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentStatus">&lt;ComponentStatus&gt;&lt;/ComponentStatus&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentInfo">&lt;ComponentInfo&gt;&lt;/ComponentInfo&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBEnumerateStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBEnumerateEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBVhdCreationEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBBackupStartTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SSBBackupEndTime">1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemStateBackup">&lt;SystemState IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" /&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BMR">&lt;BMR IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" /&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="VssFullBackup">true</Data>
    <Data Name="UserInputBMR">false</Data>
    <Data Name="UserInputSSB">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupSuccessLogPath">C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupFailureLogPath">C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log</Data>
    <Data Name="EnumerateBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="EnumerateBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PruneBackupStartTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="PruneBackupEndTime">&lt;TimesList&gt;&lt;Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /&gt;&lt;/TimesList&gt;</Data>
    <Data Name="BackupFlags">0x8</Data>
    <Data Name="ComponentInfoSummary">&lt;ComponentInfoSummary ComponentInfoArrayPresent="1" TotalComponents="0" SucceededComponents="0" /&gt;</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log

Backup of volume D: succeeded.

C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-30-08-2015_01-00-04.log: blank

Anyone know what's going wrong and what to do?

Good Day everybody here,

How are you all?

I have a very simple question, suppose I will use the Windows Server Backup tool to backup my server as Bare Metal backup (either VM or physical server, which works as DC, DNS, Web..or any), now my question: can I restore this backup to different physical machine or VM??

Thanks
Best Regards

Brand new to Server 2012 R2 Essentials so please forgive my lack of knowledge.<o:p></o:p>

In installing a RAID 5 array consisting of 5 drives each at 5TB I found that the
backup service will not initiate. When I try to configure backup of 'C' drive
consisting of OS only and 'D' RAID array consisting of all 'Shared Folders' I
get the following error message "Cannot complete the Set up Server Backup
Wizard". The size of the array is 17.3TB NTFS and I have it backing up to a
16.2TB NTFS pool created using the servers 'Storage Pool'. Currently there is no
data on any server folders, totally blank. Note: the RAID 5 array was created
using Intel RST off of the C226 chip on my server motherboard. <o:p></o:p>

In checking the RAID array using the Servers check disk it comes back with it being OK. It
appears to be working perfectly. I tested the backup pool when the server
folders were located on the primary drive SSD drive which is used purely for
the OS but wanted to test the backup process before offloading the shared folders
to the RAID array. This process worked perfectly.<o:p></o:p>

Am I missing something or failed to complete a setup? Literally I installed the OS,
added one client computer via the connector, created the drive pool and
then tested. Then created the RAID array.....which took 9 days to initialize
and then moved the shared folders to the array and then tried to test the backup.
That's when the error message started to occur. <o:p></o:p>

Thank you<o:p></o:p>

I have a brand new 2008R2 SP1 server (Domain Controller) where I try to make SystemState backup. Backup seems to work fine, but I can not delete oldest.
I'm uncertain if I do have a valid SS backup.

I take backup with this command:

C:\>wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:D:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Starting to back up the system state [04-08-2011 08:45]...
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up the system state from volume(s) Local Disk(EFI System Partitio
n) (200.00 MB),C-OS(C:) to D:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y

Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Windows Server Backup is updating the backup for deleted items.
This might take a few minutes.
Found (96) files.
Found (13207) files.
Found (29482) files.
Found (39566) files.
Found (78588) files.
Found (79088) files.
The search for system state files is complete.
Starting to back up files...
The backup of files reported by 'Task Scheduler Writer' is complete.
The backup of files reported by 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is complete.
The backup of files reported by 'Performance Counters Writer' is complete.
Overall progress: 1%.
Currently backing up files reported by 'System Writer'...
 - continuing to 100% -

Summary of the backup operation:
------------------

The backup of the system state successfully completed [04-08-2011 08:59].
Log of files successfully backed up:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If I check the backup with "Get Versions", I get this:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\>wbadmin get versions
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Backup time: 30-07-2011 21:00
Backup target: Fixed Disk labeled D:
Version identifier: 07/30/2011-19:00
Can recover: Volume(s), File(s), Application(s), System State
Snapshot ID: {6f4f38c8-3d3c-4e9f-87fb-d7cdb9c13c59}
 - several other backups-

Backup time: 04-08-2011 08:45
Backup target: Fixed Disk labeled D:
Version identifier: 08/04/2011-06:45
Can recover: Volume(s), File(s), Application(s), System State
Snapshot ID: {ae749899-447f-4c6d-b2d3-06c2f1816541}

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So far everything seems ok.
But when I try to delete the oldest backup, things look weired:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -deleteOldest
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Enumerating system state backups...
ERROR - No system state backups were found.
This command can be used to delete backups that only contain the system state.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If I try with -keepversions, I get same result:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\>wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -keepversions:1
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Enumerating system state backups...
ERROR - No system state backups were found.
This command can be used to delete backups that only contain the system state.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

So do I have a valid Systemstate backup ?
And can I trust I can use it to recover if needed, since it says "No system state backups were found" ?
And why can't I delete the oldest backup ?

- Duelund

Hello Everyone, 

My server running in windows server 2012. Recently the Window Backup Failed due to

Error in deletion of [E:\System Volume Information\001.dat] while pruning the target VHD: Error [0x80070020] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Anyone facing this issue before? 

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Nicolas 

Hi I wonder if anyone could help with this problem. I am using a fresh install of Windows 10 and keep getting these event ID's coming up. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Event ID 10016

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}
 and APPID
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}
 to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Thank You for any help with this.

Alan