I have this problem since about 23rd December on a 2012 R2 Essentials Server.

Using a VSS backup application (Macrium Reflect 5.3).

It sometimes works now, but mostly fails to backup. I have rebooted etc.

What is happening, is that during shadow copy creation, Active Directory database engine ESENT seems to switch to using the shadow version of the active directory database (ntds.dit), but then decides that the edb.log has range checksum mismatches.

The system is running fine but will not do backups! Maybe 1 in 20 will succeed.

Shadow creation starts, then I see these events:

Information09/01/2016 00:22:11ESENT102General

lsass (588) The database engine (6.03.9600.0000) is starting a new instance (1).

Information09/01/2016 00:22:11ESENT216Logging/Recovery

lsass (588) A database location change was detected from 'C:\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit' to '\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy28\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit'.

followed by:

Information09/01/2016 00:22:11ESENT300Logging/Recovery

lsass (588) The database engine is initiating recovery steps.

Information09/01/2016 00:22:11ESENT216Logging/Recovery

lsass (588) The log range read from the file "\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy28\Windows\NTDS\edb.log" at offset 9007104 (0x0000000000897000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes failed verification due to a range checksum mismatch.  The expected checksum was 0 (0x0) and the actual checksum was 9442647854575 (0x89689abcdef). The read operation will fail with error -501 (0xfffffe0b).  If this condition persists then please restore the logfile from a previous backup.

Error09/01/2016 00:22:12ESENT465Logging/Recovery

lsass (588) Corruption was detected during soft recovery in logfile \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy28\Windows\NTDS\edb.log. The failing checksum record is located at position END. Data not matching the log-file fill pattern first appeared in sector 2199 (0x00000897). This logfile has been damaged and is unusable.

Error09/01/2016 00:22:12ESENT454Logging/Recovery

lsass (588) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -501.

I'm not sure if it is supposed to switch database location to shadow copies during shadow creation? Does anybody know?

I've exhausted all of my Googling powers now, hence the post! I did wonder if it was a 4kb issue or something. It's a Lenovo TS140 server, 2012 R2 Essentials, 2x 1tb SATA on Intel C600 RSTe RAID1 (motherboard/soft/fake raid). The volume is reported as 4kb physical and 512 logical (i.e. 512e), which is about the norm nowadays.

Grateful of any help!

I use "windows server backup" to backup my Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 boxes.
Using the GUI interface to "windows sever backup" I can:
o find the various instances of disk backups
o drill down into the directory structure of a given instance of a disk backup
o select a single file to be recovered

I want to look at all instances of a file that are available to be recovered.  This feature is offered in "windows explorer" via the "previous versions" tab.  How do I get that same "previous versions" capability via the "windows server backup" recover gui?

Are there other utilities (other than the "windows server backup" recover gui) that allow me to peruse the backup catalog?

Is there any way to peruse the catalogue using powershell cmdlets?

thanks

I am looking for a manual (perhaps) the describes how windows server backup,recover, VSS, and previous versions work and how they interrelate. I want to start with a macro view and then work my way into the minutiae.

I am using windows sever backup to protect my Windows Server 2012R2and Windows Server 2008R2 boxes.  However, I do not really understand how all the pieces work.

Are there any utilities that allow me to peruse the windows server backupfile catalog?  I want to find all instances of a particular file that are available to be recovered.  Along with the filename and path, I want to see the file size and creation and/or modification for each instance of the file.

I prefer not to read many many individual small postings or help messages and then try to put the pieces together.  I prefer the organization that manuals provide.

thanks

Hi there,

I am using appcmd for taking backup of Apppool and website in IIS7, since appcmd doesnt work on iis6 and iis5 could any one please help me in this.

Thanks in advance for the help.  I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Server that has been running flawlessly for almost six months, including daily backups to a USB-attached 1.8 TB hard drive.  Total internal disk space is 900 GB of which only about 30% is used.

Three days ago, backups started failing with the 0x807800C5 error and "specified backup disk cannot be found" error.  I've tried deleting all of the backups, reformatting the the USB drive, deleting the entire backup configuration and re-initializing, SFC on the backup drive and C drive (no errors)...

No updates or software changes were installed between the time backups were working and when the process began failing.

I have tried backing up via WBADMIN to other locations, including a new/different USB-attached hard drive and the C drive and they respond with the same error.

VSSAdmin List Writers shows all writers stable - no errors.

There are no virtual machines involved on the server.

There are no other errors in the event log other than the backup error.  Below is a listing of the error message details.

Thanks again.

 BackupTemplateID {CBDEBB8E-EADB-4B32-8314-44E8EE942B22}
  HRESULT 0x807800c5
  DetailedHRESULT 0x80780081
  ErrorMessage %%2155348165
  BackupState 12
  BackupTime 2016-01-10T17:48:01.451355100Z
  BackupTarget Hartman200 Backup Drive
  NumOfVolumes 2
  VolumesInfo <VolumeInfo><VolumeInfoItem Name="Esp" OriginalAccessPath="" State="12" HResult="-2139619199" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="0" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="2" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="0" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="523" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="C:" OriginalAccessPath="C:" State="15" HResult="-2139619228" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="0" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="2" DataTransferred="0" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="1576" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /></VolumeInfo>
  SourceSnapStartTime 2016-01-10T17:48:01.451355100Z
  SourceSnapEndTime 2016-01-10T17:48:57.809252500Z
  PrepareBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="2016-01-10T17:49:13.484Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  PrepareBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="2016-01-10T17:49:13.500Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupWriteStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="2016-01-10T17:49:13.500Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupWriteEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  TargetSnapStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  TargetSnapEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  DVDFormatStartTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  DVDFormatEndTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  MediaVerifyStartTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  MediaVerifyEndTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  BackupPreviousState 9
  ComponentStatus <ComponentStatus></ComponentStatus>
  ComponentInfo <ComponentInfo></ComponentInfo>
  SSBEnumerateStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBEnumerateEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBVhdCreationStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBVhdCreationEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBBackupStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBBackupEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SystemStateBackup <SystemState IsPresent="0" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" />
  BMR <BMR IsPresent="1" HResult="-2139619199" DetailedHResult="0" />
  VssFullBackup false
  UserInputBMR true
  UserInputSSB false
  BackupSuccessLogPath C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-10-01-2016_17-48-01.log
  BackupFailureLogPath C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-10-01-2016_17-48-01.log
  EnumerateBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  EnumerateBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  PruneBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  PruneBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupFlags 0x1
  ComponentInfoSummary <ComponentInfoSummary ComponentInfoArrayPresent="1" TotalComponents="0" SucceededComponents="0" />

Jim

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:

Hi to all,

When I try to use wbadmin to backup something (system state or folders) on my windows 2008 r2 server the following error message appears in the Event Viewer:

"The backup operation that started at '‎2011‎-‎11‎-‎25T15:02:58.627000000Z' 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 '2147943484'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved"

the wbadmin gui shows the following infomation: " vss copy backup - status failed. This service cannot be started in safe mode.

obviously the server is not in safe mode and the command 'vssadmin list writers' don't shows errors and every writer is stable and without error.

I 've already tried to remove and reinstall the backup features without success.

Any ideas?

Thanks 

Luca

Dear Server Expert,

I would like to do full image backup of one of our physical database server into the VHD or VHDX format, so It can be restore to another server as a VM. I have tried to convert for some servers and it is able to work. May I know whether DISK2VHD will be able to work with database server with Navision on it?

Thanks.

Regards,

Hi,

I'm testing the system restore of a virtual server and it's giving me an error.

Let me start with the VM configuration:

- Source -

VMware Virtual Machine generation 8

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

25 GB Hard disk

2 GB RAM

2 CPUs

Made a Bare Metal backup using this command:

wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\<ip>\backup -include:C: -allCritical -systemState -quiet

Then I went to another ESXi and created the same specifications VM:

- Destination -

VMware Virtual Machine generation 8

30GB Hard disk

2 GB RAM

2 CPUs

So I've started it with the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 system CD. Set the language, clicked onRepair and added the DVD with the backup files (created na ISO from the backup folder).

It verifies the backup correctly, and when I ask it to restore... it starts, formats the disk to create the 25GB partition of the original source... and it gaves me an errorThe parameter is incorrect:0x80070057

Anyone knows anything about it? The only solutions I found about this problem was removing the system OS pendrive bootdisk from the machine before starting recovery...

I took back of my windows 2012 physical server and the file it created is in VHDX format. I have the backup file copied to another location. Now i completely wiped off the array on this server, re-created the arrays in the same form like before. Now how do i get my bare metal server restored to previous state using VHDX file? This is very confusing , there is no proper documentation on how to back and restore physical servers. Any help is appreciated.

Running Windows Server 2012 on a test environment and had the following scenario 

1. Configured Windows Server Backup to backup a Fixed Disk drive 

2. Formatted the Windows Drive and moved to OpenSource Server software 

The question, is there a way to restore the backups that were stored to a Fixed Disk Drive, the files are in vhdx and some xml files, when trying to attach the VHD image to Windows 8 computer, it would give out "incorrect function" 

Hi,

I have installed the Windows Server Backup feature several times in Windows Server 2012, but the "Windows Server Backup UI" is missing under the "Administrative Tools" and under the \System32\wbadmin.msc .

Any ideas how to re-create or workaround this problem ?

I really appreciate your help !

With kind regards,

Cengiz Kuskaya

Using Windows Server Backup I setup a scheduled backup on Server 2008 running Exchange 2007.  It ran as scheduled until 5 days ago, when it stopped running in its entirety until this morning. 

There is a gap in Windows Server Backup between these dates. The backups do not fail as they do not run at all. Although each day in WSB the backup says it is scheduled for that day.

In the Scheduled task for the backup there are no notifications between the 9th and the 14th. 

When the task has started today it seems that it has attempted to run the task several times. Which resulted in a number of failures. 

I have followed the step to change the task limit within the registry in this other technet post to no success. 

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/ea368220-a058-421b-bbf0-a02c9fa86a92/scheduled-backup-not-running?forum=windowsbackup

Hi all,

We use a Quantum Scalar i40 robot with a HP Ultrium LTO-6 fibre channel attached drive. This is attached to a Qlogic QLE2562 8 Gb/s FC card on a host.

We first started noticing something strange when copying (using Windows 2012 R2 Standard Explorer copy/paste) from the host storage to the LTO-6 drive. When trying to archive a large amount of files (image sequences) we would sometimes get an error “File IMG123456.dpx already exists, do you wish to replace or skip?”. If we clicked Replace or Skip, the same outcome, the file would not be present on the tape. Initially, we would re-format the tape and copy the entire data again, but the same error, on the same file would appear. We think we have got around this by copying the missing frame to the parent directory and ‘moving’ the file into the image sequence.

However, the problem that has led to this post is the reverse; copying from an LTO-6 tape to our storage. We copied an entire tape and informed our colleagues that the data was online for them to view. Upon viewing the image sequence copied off the tape, we noticed that a frame e.g. IMG100001.dpx was actually frame IMG100002.dpx. However IMG100002.dpx would remain the same.

We told the supplier that the data was corrupt. We returned the LTO to them for further checks. They informed us the data on the LTO was OK and the data on their SAN was OK. We received the same LTO back from them and copied the frame IMG100001.dpx (initially wrong) by itself and the frame was OK. We then copied the entire contents of the tape again and the same thing happened. The same frame was replaced by IMG100002.dpx.

I don’t know is this is a Windows bug or an HP StoreOpen LTFS bug. I've raised a ticket with HP but they've in turn told me to raise a ticket with Microsoft.

Wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

Appreciate your thoughts,

DM3G

Hey everyone!

I have a customer that started having an issue about a month ago. Their running 2012 R2 with a hyper-v cluster. Their backups would fail until a server reboot was performed. We have narrowed it down to the drive not being ejected properly. But it's not just one drive. We have 15 of them and all of them have the same issue.

I have read tons of forums about ejecting safely to off-lining the drive (which is a big no no) to changing the hardware policy. None of which have worked.

Basically we found out that as soon as we hit the eject option from the tray the system just sits there. All of the sudden the below processes show up:



Then we get the error:

No matter how many times we try we cannot eject the drive. If we just unplug it we get thousands of these:

The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId: E:, DeviceName: \Device\HarddiskVolume7.
(A device which does not exist was specified.)

Once that happens then we have to force reboot the system and can't migrate and of the hyper-v cluster roles away ending up in a entire system crash.

We have learned though! After each backup is complete we drain the cluster roles from the server and reboot it. We can then eject the drive safely.

So... Anyone got any ideas? Maybe a recent microsoft patch?

Please let me know. Thanks!

I am trying to restore a corrupted file. When I get to the point searching the tree, the cursor spins until I get a message "The open instance of Recovery wizard was inactive for more than ten minutes. The wizard was automatically cancelled...

At this point you can not open the restore wizard again, you receive the message another instance is running.