Hello,
I have just read that you can restore Windows 2008 to a different hardware, like Windows 7.
I was wondering: Is there the need of third-party software anymore?. I mean, you just backup the whole system in a network share or a san volume or elsewhere (outside the 2008 box), and that is that, no Acronis anymore.
Am I missing something?. To me, it looks so great.
Thanks in advance!
Luis Olías Técnico/Admon Sistemas . Sevilla (España - Spain)
Hi all,
I need to perform a system state backup of a SBS 2011 before migrating it over the weekend as end of life was on the 15th of January.
I'm having the below issue while trying to back it up:
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Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...-----------------------------------------------------
I found this thread that explain exactly the issue I am having (I cannot add a link to the body text for some reason):
social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/c633b2e6-1161-4146-bc09-c2712231f0ee/wbadmin-system-state-backup-quotparameter-is-incorrectquot?forum=windowsbackup
Can I have please assistance from Microsoft to get the script Suhas Rao is talking about?
Any help on this, it will be highly appreciated.
Best regards, Ta
I have been using Windows Server Backup on our Windows Server 2008 R2 server for years now. I have restored backups in the past from these backups. The backup includes a full backup of the hard drive plus a System State backup. However, I have noticed the System State backup is showing 0 KB under the Data Transferred column. The backups all show as "Successful". There do not seem to be any obvious errors.
Should the System state show more than 0 KB for Data Transferred? Does this mean the System state, for some reason, is not not getting backed up?
Thanks,
Mike
Forgive my English, I'm Brazilian.
Good afternoon guys, I wonder how long Windows Backup on a 2016 or 2012 server stores incremental backups. I know that Windows Server Backup automatically creates a full backup when both of the following conditions are true:
More than 14 days have passed since the last full backup
But I don't know how long the incremental backup is maintained. Anybody know ?
Sorry, this is long winded and from memory. I had to do a system restore this weekend. It was much more difficult than it needed to be. I didn't mind booting from installation media to get to the repair area, but the options in the restore process were disappointing. The backup wizard has you backup up everything together, system, system state, and data. When trying to restore just the system, there is not an easy option to do so. To restore just the system drive, you have to select"Reformat Drives" to activate the "Exclusions" button. The numbers they assign to drives don't match the actual drive numbers, so it doesn't give the user a lot of confidence. I selected exclusions, and then unchecked the "reformat" option, and then proceeded. That of course instantly started restoring the data drive first. So I had to wait for it to restore the data drive and the system drive, and then I had to restore the data drive back to the most current state. That's a lot of needless work. Some of the articles I read even said stuff like "press the restore system drive only button". That would be great, but it does not exist.
Microsoft, pleas allow us to easily just restore the system drive without reformatting the drive. Drives often have multiple partitions and it is unclear as if the entire drive will be reformatted, or just the partition. If you can restore the whole system (data and system drives) without checking the "reformat" box, then you should be able to just restore the system drive without reformatting it. Also, when it came time to restore the data, I was faced with the same issue, My data restore point for the most current data included the corrupt system, so I only wanted to restore the Data and not the system. Again, I don't want to reformat because the drives are storage pools so I'm nervous about changing anything. I then went back to the now working Server, and started the GUI for Server Backup. I selected Restore Volumes as opposed to Files and Folders as I wanted to restore the entire volume so It wouldn't have any issues with some of the databases on that drive. It prompts your for the source drives you wish to backup from the backup set you selected, and then gives you a place where to restore to. You cannot restore to the same drive that the backup was from, so it is completely useless. I had to then use the files and folders option and cross my fingers. All worked out well, but there was a waste of about 20 hours that I didn't need to do.
In Summary, please add some more options for the restore that do not include reformatting. Test it and make sure it works, and roll it out to all the still active server versions, not just 2019.
Many Thanks, JP
Hi,
One of our server we are taking windows backup and it will work for 7 days without any issues , after that it will give the error as this "Error in deletion of [D:\SandBlastBackup\{293aa93b-4a19-11ea-80c5-3863bb3f6ac3}.0.pdf] while runing the target VHD: Error [0x80070005] Access is denied." We are using Checkpoint Endpoint Security for antivirus. If anybody knows please reply .
Hi,
Please could some help me. I'm wanting to start again backing up to x3 external drives using Wbadmin. But when i try and create a new backup its just stuck on please wait. Any ideas how i can kill all the old jobs off and just start fresh? This is Server 2016 Standard.
Cheers
Mick
Mikehawo
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 CSVshi all,
I just wanted to do a restore/Recover from a Virtual machine (inside Riverbed/Steelhead), which is Windows Server 2008R2.
So i just done a full backup, and want to restore/recover (with Recovery Wizard) a volume (D:\) that has most of the user's data to a Network Drive (NAS) that has been mapped in Y: (so i want all users access the NAS temporarily as i want to upgrade the VM
OS to Winserver 2012), but when i want to recover it this error popped up : "Cannot Find File Specified" so the recovery cannot start
been searching back and forth, still no luck for a solution.
Kindly help.
Thanks before.
Hi buddies.
Maybe you know how to solve this problem I'm getting. I have a backup policy in my server, that makes a full image. I'm able to restore that image (using the windows cd) if it's located in an USB HDD, but if I try to load the image trough a network share, the quoted error message appears...
Any idea? I've tried in different servers, locations, sharing permisions...
Thx!
Hello,
When I run Windows Server Backup or any backup software that uses Microsoft VSS my domain controllers crash. I get the following events when this happens. Server patches are up to date and I ran:
Sfc /scannowDism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
these above commands did not fix the issue
Event 1000 Application Error
Faulting application name: lsass.exe, version: 6.3.9600.17415, time stamp: 0x545042fe
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.3.9600.19629, time stamp: 0x5e2fdc0d
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000f1cd0
Faulting process id: 0x228
Faulting application start time: 0x01d5ece223b6248e
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: ffffc66b-58d6-11ea-80f7-00505697519c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event 1015 Wininit:
A critical system process, C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe, failed with status code c0000374. The machine must now be restarted.
This happens with Commvault backup Idata agent but also if I use the native Windows Server Backup with the Commvault completely uninstalled?
Hi Team,
We were using 2 node SQL Sever and DB backup taking through Commvault application.
One specific node will be active state DB backup getting failed and below mentioned error message getting in Commvault, But other node will be active state DB backup happening without any issue.
Set pending cause [Unable to get the SQL Version for the server [ABCSOMSQL001]. Possible causes: 1. SQL Services are not running. 2. If SQL Server instance is clustered, it may have failed over.]::Client [abcsdsdpvw002] Application [SQLiDA] Message Id [503316812] RCID [0] ReservationId [0]. Level [0] flags [0] id [0] overwrite [0] append [0] CustId[0].
Please let me know how to fix this issue.
Regards,
Vibin Raj N
After the Windows 10 version 1803 upgrade on April 30, 2018, my System Image Backup keeps failing withe two messages. "The backup failed" "The RPC server is unavailable (0x800706BA)".
Note that the System Image Backup worked before the upgrade. The upgrade completed OK and I have not found any other issues.
I checked that =1= The RPC (Remote Procedure Call) service in Services is active and running and =2= the DCOM (Distributed COM) is enabled. There used to be a SYSTEM disk when I did the defrag, the defrag does not show the SYSTEM disk in version 1803.
Is it a bug, or is there a fix or should I try the Image Recovery (that might fail as well).
Attempted to do backup 2nd server data section and then recovery.
In Windows Server Backup selected: Backup Once, Different Options, Custom, Add items, select Bare metal recovery, Ok, Next, Remote shared folder, Server., \\server1\folder (left default Inherit), Next
The backup was listed as completely successfully.
I tried to restore by booting from Windows Server 2019 disk. Selected Next to Windows Server 2019 window. repair your computer, Troubleshoot, System Image Recovery, Windows Server. But the only backup is one done to bare metal recovery USB drive earlier and no sign of the backup just done.
Tried Select a system image. Again only earlier backup is seen.
Tried Advanced..., Search for a system image on the network, Yes to Are you sure you want to connect to the network, Entered the \\server1\folder
Then I am getting enter credentials.
Does not look like a place to enter credentials. The script has passed by User Name: and Password.
Closing the windows gets remote procedure call failed. 0x800706BE
Hello,
My company is using windows server 2016 and now find a method to backup one of the driver 120TB (80TB used), one consider is to use windows server backup ? I want to backup it weekly or daily.
Hi
SBS 2011.
Using Windows backup, when I try to restore some files I get below error on all drives.
Unable to browse XXXXX. The shadow copy of the backup stored on the backup destination cannot be found
What can I do to fix this and be able to restore my files?
Thanks
Regards
Hi,
My Server backups stopped on 11 March.
I had my backups configured to be saved at an ISCSI drive I:
This drive is active and healthy:
The system has been working fine up until 11:
I can't perform any backups or restores.
When I try to browse for a restore it takes long time and I get this:
These are the source volumes:
I have recorded the backup settings and the result is the same.
This is what I get in the log:
Can anyone help solve this?
Thanks
Best Regards.
NC
