Hi
I have noticed it for the first time during backup. The backup came up with message 'Compacting the virtual hard disk...' (image 1 below) and in Disk Management I can see pairs of two of the disks appear (labeled as pair A and B in image 2 below).
Is this normal? I don't recall setting any virtual disks.
Thanks
Regards
Hi,
I am trying to restore my full system image backup on different server. But am getting following error.
Kindly provide a solution for this issue.
Note :
1) Backup size : 1.2 TB
2) Restore server space : 1.8TB
3) Both a server has RAID5
Thanks,
Sakthi
I'm currently using Windows Server Backup (in Server 2008 R2) to an attached HDD in an eSATA dock, which INCLUDES the Bare Metal Recovery AND System State. There is, and will be for the near future, very littl activity on my server and no significant daily changes. I'd like to be able to, for the time being, schedule the backup to occur only weekly, but Windows Server Backup doesn't seem to provide that option. Currently the backup is scheduled to occur daily, but I've only been mounting the disk weekly. This causes six days of "Backup Failed" error messages, and I'm afraid that I may not be getting everything that I need when the weekly backups occur.
I also have two Win 7 computers backing up the same way, but Win 7 provides for a WEEKLY option. Is there any way to properly schedule weekly backups on my server???
Creacon
Hi,
I am going to run a BMR on a VM in hyper-V (OS drive on a big fileserver). I made a similar VM. Same size OS disk. When attempting to run the restore i get an error as in the picture below:
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.So i added 10GB more than the original server OS disk. Same error. So i double the disk size. Same error. Anyone that have seen this before?
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Hi everyone
We want to OS upgrade from Windows server 2008x86 enterprice to 2012 R2 x64,
and want keep some "set up" and "share folder policy".
And we used "Windows server backup in 2008, then restore in 2012".
If this method can workable, we save a lot of trouble.
or else more better method can provide us.
Thank you very much
I'm using Robocopy to copy files from a Novell fileserver to a new Windows Server 2012 fileserver. Robocopy is randomly skipping files and directories in the source. I'm using this command:
robocopy R:\USER\michellea'E:\user' /MT /e /purge /ZB /fft /R:0 /W:0 /XA:H /LOG+:'C:\LogFiles\users'$a'.txt
I copied a few of the missing directories and files into the destination directory and when I run Robocopy again they are removed. The log file shows them as extra files:
Log Sample
*EXTRA Dir -1 E:\michellea\MyNotesFiles\Notes\xsp\nsf\themes\
*EXTRA File 23594 E:\michellea\MyNotesFiles\Notes\xsp\nsf\themes\notes.theme
The skipped directories and files have the same attributes as others that are copied. I ran Robocopy in verbose mode and it does not list the skipped directories or files. I tested using RichCopy and it does transfer the files. Thanks
Additional Testing
Last 4 folders in a source directory - Not copying "work for today" and "work measurement study"
Travel, Web, work for today, Work Measurement Study
Test 1
I changed the name to "Work for today 1" and "work measurement study 1"
Results 1
Nothing changed - Did not copy
Test 2
Changed the names to "1 work for today" and "1 work management study"
Log file section:
*EXTRA Dir -1 E:\bryanw\Web\
New File 176714 R:\USER\bryanw\1 work for today\Accomplishments 2012.twd
New File 120129 R:\USER\bryanw\1 Work Measurement Study\District WCD July 2012 (final).pdf
Results 2
Copied the new folders "1 work for today" and "1 work measurement study"
Removed previously copied (and last folder in the directory) "Web"
Test 3
Changed the names back to original name "work for today" and "Work Measurement Study"
Log file section:
*EXTRA Dir -1 E:\bryanw\1 work for today\
*EXTRA Dir -1 E:\bryanw\1 Work Measurement Study\
New File 232109 R:\USER\bryanw\Web\ITSO-SOC Server Assessment - Questionnaire
Results 3
Copied the Web directory and removed the "1 work for today' and "1 Work Measurement Study" Ignored the original "work for today" and "Work Measurement Study"
I used Beyond Compare and it seems this is occurring within all of the robocopy destination directories. Its typically the last 1 or 2 directories and random files in various directories.
I am currently using version 6.2.9200.20682 (same results with 6.2.9200.16384 and 6.2.9200.16578)
Hi
i have two server in 2012 versión, i want backup specific roles in the first server and recover it on the second server but retaining the roles existents.
Is possible recover some the specific roles and features in the second server without override the actual roles and features ?
Hello,
I need to perform a complete system recovery test on our UAT servers.
Current Configurations : NEC EXpress 5800 R120e-2M
Disk Drives : 3 disks ( C:, D: and Y drive )
I tried yesterday but did not succeed.
Steps.
I made a full system backup image on drive Y: It was successful.
Boot the system using Windows 2008R2 bootable CD and select Recover System option.
Problems:
1. Windows could not recognize the disks firstly then I checked the NEC Express 5800 manual and found that I need to load the RAID drivers when Windows asks for the Load Drivers. Drivers were load successfully. It is hardware RAID implemented in the server.
Luckily, Windows detects the current installed operating system but the problem was that,
Windows detects the C: as H: when it displayed the list of installed operating.I tried next but Windows could not detect the backup image and finally gave up.
I saw that all the disks volumes changed as follows
C : drive became H:
D : drive became N:
Y : drive became L:
I am not able to understand this behavior. Appreciate if someone can please provide some insight/information for above problem.
I am stuck at this point and can not test the Windows Full System Recovery on UAT before attempting it on our Production and DR environment.
Finally I booted the server as normal and I can see C,D and Y: drives.
Thanks,
Praveen
So I've been reading a bit on some free hyper visor backup apps from Nakivo, Altario, Veeam, and soon Unitrends. Besides Veeam which does a full zip of the VM and lacks what the other free utils offer, I believe these apps have pretty much the same
features (Dedupe, compression, scheduled backups).
My test lab is Hyper-V but my prod is VmWare. I started with Nakivo and already I'm not happy with the app with VmWare due to it not being able to properly restore from a backup. I emailed them for assistance on this as I was surprised how complicated it was to get it to work with VmWare and issues with Independent disks & quiescing of disks.
So I was able to use Veeam Backup and while it worked, it lacks the robust features the others offer (compression, dedupe, etc). But in a pinch, it works.
I have not yet tries Altario and Unitrends yet so I don't know about these.
I'm wondering what your thoughts are on which backup util you prefer / use and why. I haven't read anything as far as a in depth review of these apps so I'm still out on the jury.
And please, don't suggest to use Windows Backup
Thanks
We have a Windows 2012 Server that currently backs up to an external hard drive nightly. We have a couple EC2 instances with space for those backups to reside and would like to direct our backups there. Can we configure Windows Server Backup to backup directly to the external EC2 instance or do we need to use 3rd-party software to facilitate this?
Clearly I'm not familiar with Windows Server Backup functionality - thanks in advance.
I am facing problem or error (rundll32-error) during Windows based system startup, how can i resolve it?
hi
I want to replicate file system structure on new location several times per day for searching purposes.
/create switch works but when I run it again robocopy report that all source files is changed and process last long as from first starting. No one file is changed in source folder.
How to avoid this and speed this up?
thanks
Hello
My backup was seccessful with warning, everything is completed except (Bare Metal Recovery) failed, it status said: (Backup failed to complete)
In backup details I found in errors tab this message: (BMR backup failed as ASR writer while creating shadow copy and was skipped. Detailed error: Not all components reported by the writer can be snapshtted.
I clicked (View list of all failed files) and found this:
Writer Failures
Writer Id: ***
Instance Id: ***
Writer Name: ASR Writer
Writer State: 0
Failure Result: 81000112
Application Result: 0
Application Message: (null)
Component: BCD
Logical Path: BCD
Component Result: 81000108
Component Message: Windows cannot create a shadow copy on the specified disk. Please choose another disk. (0x81000108)
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Application backup
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Hello,
a few days ago i sheduled a full system backup for a windows server using windows server baskup.
today, when i review the backup results i saw lots of warnings regarding a missing volume.
i checked the event viewer and found Event id 658 and 519 but the information found on technet pages that document this events did not help at all.
can anyone help with this problem ?
thanks,
Marius