I am wondering if anyone else has seen the below error message? If so how do I correct it, I don't want to have to purchase a 3rd party backup software package to backup the entire server if possible....

Below is the hard drive formats...not sure why OS partition is Fat32..I did not load the OS on this server.

Below is the error I get when trying to run any backups using the windows server backup configuration wizard?

Any ideas on how to correct this without a reinstallation would be great :)

Mark D. Albin IT Master Services www.itmasterservice.com (775) 229-4254

Hi,

I have one server 2003R2-X64. I want to get backup just from Active Directory or System state.

I use from NTbackup command and get one backup from system state, but i can`t to restore by this backup.

How can i get one backup, JUST FROM My Active Directory and restore this?

Is there any third party application or implement?

Thanksgiving.

Future is mine! ^_^

Hello!

I have a Dell powerEdge t300 with raided drives inside, i have taken a full backup of the system using windows server backup but now I want to restore from this backup on my new dell power edge r710 but I dont have the server 2008 disk.

I am running Windows Server 2008 Standard x64

Thanks for help in advanced 

During the restore of data using VSS Snapshots it deleted all the snapshots, this event was written in the system log : 

The shadow copies of volume D: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time.  Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow copied.

It only restored 20 GB of data and there should be plenty of space in the Shadow copy storage

Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 2.692 GB (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 5.397 GB (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 694.752 GB (18%)

When there isn't enough space it should start to delete the oldest snapshots to free up additional space, but it deletedall the snapshots. The problem is the IO but how to prevent this from happening again?

Hi,

Which application is the best, for get backup from Active Directory?
I have one Domain controller and i want to get backup from Active Directory by third-party applications (Exclude solutions Microsoft)Thanks.

Future is mine! ^_^

Hi all,

I am able to take normal backups like daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. For example, if I want to take backup in specific days like Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, I didn't see any option for that. How can I achieve his scenarios in windows server 2012 r2.

Thank You for the support.

Regards,

franklin.sucre

Hi,

Recently setup a brand new 2012 R2 server, using hyper v to host 3 VM's, backing up with backup exec 2014.The backups are failing, backup exec stating...

V-79-40960-38521 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\UKBNHV01.ProCam.local\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\UKBNDC01". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).A virtual machine snapshot could not be created. Use the Event Viewer on the Hyper-V host to identify the cause. If the virtual machine is not properly configured, it may be necessary to use the Event Viewer in the virtual machine to identify the cause.

Looking at the Hyper V VMMS event viewer I get the error:

VSS writers inside virtual machine 'UKBNIT01' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). (Virtual machine ID 7C31CD39-FFAD-4E04-BF92-223BC120BE1B) event ID 10172

I see there are other posts relating to this, with random answers suggesting fixes relating to disk speeds and all sorts. If i restart the hyper v's and physical server the backup will run maybe 2 or 3 times successfully before failing again. Clearly buying a server to restart it every 2 days isn't an option.

It seems apparent this isn't just a problem relating to server 2012 R2, but has carried across in all newer versions of windows server.

My Vss Writers list as follows:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2013 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: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {89a328b7-87eb-48e2-a3e6-9d04b164ba32}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
   Writer Instance Id: {baa1e068-a50f-4d2e-898c-a54920ae4117}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: Retryable error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {4986e692-ea2c-454e-813e-9e5f71854adf}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {f7f18f2b-660b-4e18-9aa1-5caa5115045e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {bfa584a7-72b3-47c1-90d7-87e71074e875}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {954a91e4-8c93-4f21-9ceb-53f2df3fefc5}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {a254fab5-d160-4a2d-9f8f-e43e7ea0708e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {d01d076a-aa1b-4998-8a5b-91b993895405}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {1e7cb515-f73d-4146-838d-74605a77628c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Is anyone able to explain how to trace why the Hyper-V VSS Writer gets the retryable error?

Thanks

Nick

Dear All Server Expert,

We are currently having on premise AD server running Server 2008 R2. there is another AD Server2 for the redundancy being built. Both of the AD server are actually a VM residing on two different physical hypervisor servers. May I know: what is the best backup strategy applied for AD so when one of the AD is down sue to software or hardware corruption, I will be able to restore it asap from the backup.

From my understanding, I will definitely need to backup both the Hyper V server and also the VM. FYI, I am using the backup exec 2010 R3 for my backup software. From the backup exec and by selecting the Hyper V server to be backup, I can see a list to be backup below:

AD is actually part of Microsoft Hyper-V as it is the VM. I have 2 situations that concern:

1. What about when only that AD VM is fail? will it be enough if I am restoring the full image backup from the Microsoft Hyper-V? After restoring then wait till another DC to replicate over. But what will happen if this AD has all the roles?

2. What about when the physical server itself fail? if those selections above being selected, will it be enough to restore?

Thanks.

Regards,

I'm using Windows Server Backup (incremental) to backup the most important data daily. 

Lately I added another dedicated harddisk for a daily disk-rolling. 

With only 1 disk, I remember that the incremental backup hold an infinite amount of "copies", allowing to go back in time for files. Now, with the second disk added, the biggest copy-count I saw per disk is somewhere around 2. 

Both the disks have around 2 TB Free Disk Space, while the data beeing backed up is at about 350GB now. 

So, what is happening here? 

The Message Log shows that within the last 2 days, disk "01" has been used 2 times for backup - however it just reports one copy of backups available

Is it possible that "prior" copies are getting purged, when you roll the disk?

When I ask Windows Backup to "backup once", the backup is successful; however, when I schedule a daily backup, nothing happens, and the event log only shows Kerberos Authentication errors. Consistently, on the second that the scheduled backup is supposed to happen, there is a 0x18 KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED.

From my understanding, Kerberos preauthentication is important for security, and thus not something that should be disabled for users or administrators.

I've reentered the windows credential for the administrator to access the file server from the mail server; however this doesn't seem to help.

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to run a backup on one of my 2012 DC's using wbadmin's -allcritical switch. The backup is being directed to a network share on a Netapp. The machine is a VM running on VMWare, however, other physical 2012 servers are able to backup to this Netapp successfully. The syntax being used is:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:"\\fileserver\VM Backup\MYDC\1st" -include:c: -allcritical -vssfull -quiet > "c:\scripts\Server Backup.log"

Strangely, the 350 MB 'System Reserved' partition auto-created during the Windows install seems to back up and copy fine, but the C: drive will not. I have tried directing the backup to a different network share with the same result. I have wbadmin running sucessfully on 5 other 2008\R2 servers (also VM's running from the same VMWare server) against the same network share.

Any ideas on this? I'm not really finding much on it I'm afraid. Thanks for any help,

ianc

Below is the output from the log: 

Retrieving volume information...
This will back up System Reserved (350.00 MB),MYDC(C:) to \\fileserver\VM Backup\MYDC\1st.
The backup operation to \\fileserver\VM Backup\MYDC\1st is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a backup of volume System Reserved (350.00 MB), copied (56%).
The backup of volume System Reserved (350.00 MB) completed successfully.
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
Creating a backup of volume MYDC(C:), copied (0%).
The backup of volume MYDC(C:) could not be completed. Error: The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.
Summary of the backup operation:
------------------

The backup operation stopped before completing.
The backup operation stopped before completing.
Detailed error: The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.
Log of files successfully backed up:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-02-01-2013_21-17-33.log

Log of files for which backup failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-02-01-2013_21-17-33.log

There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.
The mounted backup volume is inaccessible. Please retry the operation.

I use this command to backup vms:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:<shared folder> -hyperv:<vm name> -quiet

I thought that WSB was compressing or otherwise reducing the size of the backups because the backup of vm with a 2 Tb data drive that has  1.5 Tb free takes up only 554 Gb (includes a 80 Gb system volume)

However, another vm with a 1.5 Tb data drive that has 730 Gb free requires 1.6 Tb disk space for its backup.

Can someone help me understand what factors control the size of the backup and how they might be operating in this case.?

Hi,

My domain controller is currently booting up in Safe Mode and I can't logon using my domain administrator password.  I'm still logged-in as a domain administrator on a workstation on the network.  I'm just wondering if there is a way I can remotely connect to the domain controller via command prompt and change the system configuration so that it no longer boots up in safe mode?  I cannot currently use Remote Desktop Connection because of the safe mode issue. 

I was trying to use the Windows Backup Manager utility that comes with Server 2008 R2 and I screwed something up, so now the domain controller keeps booting up in safe mode. 

Can I also fix this problem by logging into the domain controller with a local admin password and changing the system configuration so that it doesn't boot-up in safe mode?

James Hutchinson

Hi,

I have a domain with windows server 2012R2. My network has 7 vlans and I want to bring some redundancy in my network by adding a secondary domain controller. The secondary domain controller will also be server 2012R2. I like to know if I have to make some preperations to the secondary domain controller for letting it be completely functional.

The first domain controller has 7 virtual lan cards (multi homed). Do I first have to add the same virtual cards to the secondary domain controller and add the dhcp ranges or do I only have to follow the staps according to add the secondary domain controller?

Thank you for your help!

We have Windows 2012 Server hosting 2 VMs - Domain Controller & RDS.  We have been doing Windows Server Backup incremental and have an ongoing issue with scheduled backups each night.  The backup shows completed with warnings and generates 2 log files.

The first log files shows:  

Backup of volume \\?\Volume{5d46f853-5db2-11e2-93e7-806e6f6e6963}\ succeeded.

Backup of volume C: succeeded.

Backup of volume F: succeeded.

Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: ACBCD71E-A8CA-4672-B951-52C1BE8444BE
   Caption     : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLRDS1
   Logical Path: 


Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: Host Component
   Caption     : Host Component
   Logical Path: 

The 2nd log file more often than not shows:  

Backup of volume E: has failed. Backup failed as shadow copy on source volume got deleted. This might caused by high write activity on the volume. Please retry the backup. If the issue persists consider increasing shadow copy storage using 'VSSADMIN Resize ShadowStorage' command.

Error in backup of E:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: 2B4A9541-C88B-442E-9A7A-6D8A27342C11
   Caption     : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLDC1
   Logical Path: 
   Error           : 8078010D
   Error Message   : Enumeration of the files failed.

   Detailed Error  : 80070003
   Detailed Error Message : (null)

We had been getting a successful backup once or twice a week which showed completed (with no mentioned of warnings) but now it regularly shows completed with warnings as noted above.  

We did a manual full backup of the DC to a different external drive a few days ago and that completed without warnings and the backup shows:  E: Completed 63.38 Full - VSS Copy Backup Successful, 8/27/13 3:35 PM - 4:43 PM. Data Transferred 63.38

On a side note, we can view the logs in the windows/logs/windowsserverbackup directory but when we attempt to view the details of a log file through the Local Backup Console for any log which shows completed with errors, we get a "MMC has detected an error in the snapin and will unload and then it shows Object referenced not set to instance of an object."  The manual backup noted above that was successful is able to be viewed through the Local Backup Console without this error.  

Any idea as to why this is failing during the scheduled backups?  This hosts a database that we need to have regular successful backups.

Hi There,

I've just starting tinkering with wbadmin.exe and the system imaging system. So far I've been able to get backups running on a schedule and I've managed to create different restore points using the in-built differential system. I've also had a test "bare metal" restore onto a blank HDD and this worked well.

The one part I'm struggling with is figuring out how to manipulate the backup images - specifically in performing partial restores. I've been able to mount the vhd/x file from the backup using diskpart and view the files on the latest backup but how do I go about restoring from one of the older system images? Say I discover that a file corrupted 2 days ago and I want to restore it one of the earlier differentials, how would I get the older copy of the file? Would I have to do a full restore of the whole system image to another disk?

Cheers,

Olly

Olly

Hello guys

First post ever here! Hopefully someone here can help

I am running Windows Server scheduled backups from a Hyper-V Physical Host which is backing up the Physical Drive

I have 2 external 1.8TB Hard drives which just plug via USB into the physical host and it backs up over night

Backup Hard Drive 01 works fine - and it is backing up without a problem, however Hard Drive 02 is failing constantly

I have run a scan on Hard Drive 02 and there are no errors, this is the vent viewer log:

I am not sure what else is going on, I thought it may have been a bad backup drive but I tested it and its not finding any errors

backup Drive 01 is working fine