Currently I'm just taking System state backup for our Active Directory.
Is it still important to take BMR backup?
Regards,
Hussain
hussain
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Bare metal Recovery vs System state Using DPM 2012
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Windows Server 2008 R2 System State Backup fails "the parameter is incorrect"
Hi,
I'm having the same problem as I've found in a few other threads.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/windowsbackup/thread/C633B2E6-1161-4146-BC09-C2712231F0EE
and
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/0b0f2d9c-e3b1-4f85-a6d2-2e15e5a15bc1
I've tried running the vshadow.exe -wm2 > out.txt command and searching the output for invalid paths, but I can't seem to find any paths that looks incorrect.
I've also done a registry search under HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services for the / character and didn't come up with any in any paths either.
The server is a pretty new install. DC, DNS, DHCP, File and Print services. It has been running in production for about a week for a small business. Their previous server desperately needed changing over, so it got pushed in fairly quick. I never assumed I would have had trouble with the system state backing up!. It would be nice to get it working so I can sleep at night :). The old DC is still running, so all is not lost in a failure, but still... I guess also once I've demoted the old DC, I can restore AD just by restoring the entire system image (Don't have to worry about USN sync if only single DC), but I would still like a system state backup.
Thanks, Ryan
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Want to take back up of a single Active Directory user in windows server 2012 R2
I am using Windows Server 2012 R2.We have privtate (domain) network.Now I want to take back-up of one of the systems joined to domain but don't want to make aware the user about the happenings being an IT asset of the organization. Can you please guide me that how can I do this.
Thanks in advance,
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Server Backup errors on Hyper-V R2
Hello,
I posted this issue in Hyper-V because the backup problems seems to be related to it, but did not get any feedback:
We are using a Hyper-V R2 server. There are several Servers (2008 [R2]) on the host running SQL (express), Exchange, DC, etc...
Hyper-V VSS service is registered (as described http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958662/en-us)
When we are using the built-in Windows server backup (WSB), shortly after starting, two different errors are logged several times (with different SIDs and volume IDs as shown)
Error1 (Source volsnap, Event ID 27)
"The shadow copies of volume \\?\Volume{ba882ffb-e66e-11de-8f15-001517cf3032} were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened."
Error2 (Source FilterManager, Event ID 3)
"Filter Manager failed to attach to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolume126'. This volume will be unavailable for filtering until a reboot. The final status was 0xc03a001c."
These errors do not appear when I shut down the guests before starting the backup.
The backup runs and finishes without claiming any error on the host (except the logged ones). Also there are no errors on the guest machines during the time frame of the backup. However, on one VM a couple of errors occured: ("VDS Basic Provider", Event ID 1, Unexpected failure. Error code: 490@01010004) but the did not reappear after a chkdsk operation.
The volume IDs shown in the errors are NOT from local drives (I checked this) so they must be from the VHDs, but I do not know how to get the information which ID is assigned to which VHD.
I am not sure if the backups are running normal and safe due to this error, so I need help on this to solve the issues.
Thanks for any hint,
Rainer
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Need everyday backup in separate folder in windows server 2012
Dear All,
I need to take Hyper-V machine backup using Windows server backup (OS platform: Windows server 2012 STD).
Each day backup will be store on a separate folder. Please suggest how can i take each day backup in separate folder.
Thanks,
Parvez
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Hyper-V VSS Writer stuck at [5] waiting for completion
Hello
I am currently having issue with backing up Hyper-V servers on a 2008 R2 machine. Backups were working until 2 weeks ago
I have also been look at the vss writers and it seems it's been stuck in waiting for completion. i have rebooted and uninstall and reinstall WSB and still the writer is stuck at waiting for completion.
Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
Writer Instance Id: {d4b387f3-2805-41ee-993d-72eacbc613bc}
State: [5] Waiting for completion
Last error: No error
The WSB in the event log was
The backup operation that started at '2011-06-16T15:59:42.847000000Z' 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 '2155348001'.
Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
I have look up the error code and it seems to be a time out issue of WSB
I am currently suspecting it is the multiple shadows copy's that are stuck. As when i type vssadmin list shadows there are multiple shadows that seem to have been generated when I tried to create the backups via WSB.
I tried deleting the shadow but it would not allow me and instead stated i have to delete them with the backup application in which i created them with.
Does anyone know how to delete the shadows from WSB? Or is there a fix for this issue??
Thanks!
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How can i recover all my data from my HDD?
My main External Hdd while writing to it got an error saying Cyclic Redundancy I tried using Chkdsk but it states that the data had turned RAW. Upon
restarting my pc the disk drive H was no longer visible and the Hdd space is now unallocated space.
I want to recover all of the data if possible but most of the software i found was only one file type recovery software, I know that resigning the Volume to H will format the drive but as i dont want that i m lost . Can MiniTool Power Data Recovery help me ?
I want to recover all of the data if possible but most of the software i found was only one file type recovery software, I know that resigning the Volume to H will format the drive but as i dont want that i m lost . Can MiniTool Power Data Recovery help me ?
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Robocopy wont reset archive attribute with /M switch..incremental backup to zip folder...RESOLVED!!!
hello, OS server 2012, 2008 r2, w7 ult.
I want to make backup only files which have archive attribute set. /M switch is what I need but robocopy wont reset archive bit from subfolders and only reset bit on files in root of source folder. How to force robocopy to reset archive bit from all copied files???
This is syntax:
@echo off
set year=%date:~10,4%
set month=%date:~4,2%
set day=%date:~7,2%
SET Now=%Time: =0%
SET Hours=%Now:~0,2%
SET Minutes=%Now:~3,2%
Robocopy c:\source c:\dest /m /s /r:1 /w:1 /log:"c:\dest\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year% %hours%h-%minutes%m.log" /NP
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip -mx1 C:\c\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year%-%hours%h-%minutes%m.zip C:\dest
echo Y | DEL C:\Temp\*.*
I can use attrib command but I have in working folder 900.000 files so this is not option.
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edit....robocopy work as expected in 2012 standard. /M switch reset archive attribute so I can use robocopy for incremental backups.
Script: c:\a is source and c:\b is destination. c:\b\temp is temporary folder from where 7zip package backed up files to archive. After 7zip finish jod script delete all files folders from temp folder. I want to use zip archive because this will be much easier for file system. With time I will have some zip files instead 10000000 files or folders. Zip files will have in name date and time for easier tracking.
@echo offset year=%date:~10,4%
set month=%date:~4,2%
set day=%date:~7,2%
SET Now=%Time: =0%
SET Hours=%Now:~0,2%
SET Minutes=%Now:~3,2%
Robocopy c:\a c:\b\temp /s /m /r:1 /w:1 /log:"c:\b\temp\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year% %hours%h-%minutes%m.log" /NP
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip -mx1 C:\b\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year%-%hours%h-%minutes%m.zip C:\b\Temp
set folder="C:\b\temp\"
cd /d %folder%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del "%%i" /s/q)
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W2k8R2 Backup systemstate failed for newly installed server on problems with VSS.
Newly installed W2008R2 Server. Totally patched.
Installed TSM Client 7.1.0.2.
But I cannot backup the systemstate.
ANS1705E System Writers 'system writer' do not exist.
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 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: 'FSRM Writer'
Writer Id: {12ce4370-5bb7-4c58-a76a-e5d5097e3674}
Writer Instance Id: {24dcd5fa-1732-4cb7-a13d-6fb9eb514421}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
Writer Instance Id: {8fa367fc-aaca-4479-b567-a3dbb638f4bf}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {a2d015dc-a7e7-4616-8f63-2d214b9dd6ef}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {9e5ff42f-af28-428c-b4d1-bb53323c381f}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {dcbff943-97d0-4dd1-a540-3dc52f399508}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {8dae0f77-06c7-415b-b9eb-2161727c172d}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
Writer Instance Id: {c1ecc299-9d30-4582-9cc5-ed61d94189ef}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {d0738ad1-b20e-47b3-8bb4-613ed85a35d7}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {1c6f5de8-3e1d-4328-baf4-4fca5806e846}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
Writer Instance Id: {707ad7af-f8d7-45a2-8b5c-a3b7db1c31d1}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'SMS Writer'
Writer Id: {03ba67dd-dc6d-4729-a038-251f7018463b}
Writer Instance Id: {db2d5259-7ecf-4367-a183-118806c0a7f6}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
Writer Instance Id: {c910985a-1fc1-42d5-b24a-176395295aae}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {2fa106e4-8cc4-462a-b47e-cbd6a5e7e8b6}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {9ca34ba8-f875-497b-8255-5fecf4baa6f4}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Check all the Internet, but no real solution.
Has somebody ane clue how to resolve this?
I have it also on 12 DC'S running 2008R2.
Regards,
Ben
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Server 2012 (Virtualized), VMWare, and DFSR events
So we have a 3 ESXi host setup with multiple virtual servers, two of which were DCs, and both had a "feature"
that annoys me to no end. I am using past tense because one of these DCs has been demoted and is no longer an issue, however both were having the problem and the remaining DC still is. Server names are changed to protect the innocent.
Both were server 2012 and both were DCs. We ran, briefly, just a windows backup from V-DC 1 and while the
backup was running on the one server the following warning would pop up in the DFSR events on every server linked to it.
DFSR Warning 5014
The DFS Replication service is stopping communication with partner V-DC1 for replication group Domain System
Volume due to an error. The service will retry the connection periodically.
Additional Information:
Error: 9036 (Paused for backup or restore)
Connection ID: 3D45591D-3B07-4AA1-8341-5D2A445A0ECD
Replication Group ID: 0586384B-C43A-42F2-9DA3-13F4DF188FEE
Follow shortly after by:
DFSR Warning 5004
The DFS Replication service successfully established an inbound connection with partner V-DC1 for replication
group Domain System Volume.
Additional Information:
Connection Address Used: DNS-DHCP.Bremertonschools.org
Connection ID: 3D45591D-3B07-4AA1-8341-5D2A445A0ECD
Replication Group ID: 0586384B-C43A-42F2-9DA3-13F4DF188FEE
This happened on EVERY backup. Shortly afterwards we went from Windows Backup to the .... interesting....
Appassure backup, and added V-DC2 to the backup schedule. We then began to receive the same warning/cleared combo on both V-DC1 and V-DC2. This now happens at 1 minute past the hour, every hour, spamming the DFSR logs with warning and generally annoying the
crap out of me. V-DC1 has been demoted due to replication issues that it was having (although not likely related) but V-DC2 is still active as a DC.
From everything that I have read this is a "feature" from Windows, however it only happens on
the VMware boxes (meaning the physical servers attempting to replicate to the VMWare server log the error, the VM itself does not log anything). We have something misconfigured and I have no idea what and I can find nothing on this that is pertinent.
I contacted VMWare technical support about this issue and was summarily told that this was a server OS
issue and that I should contact Microsoft.
So does anyone have any idea? Is there any information that I can dump to help? I am a bit stumped.
Thanks for the help!
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The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Hi
SBS 2011.
When I try to add another drive to backup schedule I get below error;
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
How can I fix this please?
Thanks
Regards
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install Windows Server 2012 RDS CALs - 10
hello,
I just have a new dell server, I got it without OS, I downloaded this Windows Server 2012 RDS CALs - 10 but I can't go on...
after I type the product key correctly, the system says that it can't check the product key....
do I need to install first the Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and hen install the Windows Server 2012 RDS CALs - 10 .
thank you for your help.
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My IE9 Browsing History File is Not Backed-up
I use Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility to back up my C drive, system files and user files. It seems that this backup utility does not back-up the folder containing IE9 browsing history: C:\Users\aashomlo\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History (This file size is 18 MB.)
Could anyone tell me why, or what to do in order to get this history folder included?
Also, apparently certain/selective links are not recorded on the History, like youtube.com. Why and what is the remedy?
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Incremental and Full backups using WBADMIN and Task Scheduler in Server 2008 R2
I'd like to create an automated rotating schedule of backups using wbadmin and task scheduler, which would backup Bare Metal Recovery; System State; Drive C: and D: to a Network Share in a pattern like this:
- Monday - Incremental, overwrite last Monday's
- Tuesday - Incremental, overwrite last Tuesday's
- Wednesday - Incremental, overwrite last Wednesday's
- Thursday - Incremental, overwrite last Thursday's
- Friday - Incremental overwrite last Friday's
- Saturday - Full, overwrite last Saturday's
I need to use the wbadmin commands within the Task Scheduler and do not know any of the required Syntax to make sure everything goes smoothly, I do not want to do this through the CMD.
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Two questions: Failed backups and Bare Metal Recovery
Good morning technet-ers.
So I have two questions today. One about BMR and another about a failing backup.
First question: So I work for a small IT firm and we're managing a couple of servers for a client. The first of which is a virtualization host running hyper-v and the second is a file server. The first server has been failing backups due to lack of space on the i-scsi volume. This is because the backup was also backing up the VM files as well. They are currently stored on a seperate, local volume apart from the OS. All our VM's back themselves up to another NAS device. So we've tried tried to remove the volume with the VM files off of the backup schedual, but it says that the volume is required for the Bare Metal Recovery. Is there a way to move that volume off?
Second question:
With the second server we've been having constant failures to back up the server. We're doing a full back up, system state and BMR. Whenever it tries to initiate it gives an error: 2147942401 "Incorrect Function".
When inspecting the backup logs I notice that the backup stops on the recovery partition (Says preparing) but doesn't get further then that. I've tried shrinking the volume by 10mb (I've read that it may be because it can't read the last sector in the volume)
but that hasn't helped. I've tried removing the recovery partition from the backup, but it's telling me it needs the recovery partition for BMR.
So any insight on this would be great!
Thanks
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Deploy a .net 4.0 web based project on windows server 2008.
I want to Run a .NET 4.0 web based project on LAN by Windows server 2008.I am running the application by IIS. When i run the application on IIS the Error "<compilation mode="debug" target framework 4.0"> is showing on web page.Please suggest me a right way to run my web project on LAN by the windows server 2008.
Vishal Saxena
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Robocopy wont reset archive attribute with /M switch..incremental backup to zip folder...partially RESOLVED!!!
hello, OS server 2012, 2008 r2, w7 ult.
I want to make backup only files which have archive attribute set. /M switch is what I need but robocopy wont reset archive bit from subfolders and only reset bit on files in root of source folder. How to force robocopy to reset archive bit from all copied files???
This is syntax:
@echo off
set year=%date:~10,4%
set month=%date:~4,2%
set day=%date:~7,2%
SET Now=%Time: =0%
SET Hours=%Now:~0,2%
SET Minutes=%Now:~3,2%
Robocopy c:\source c:\dest /m /s /r:1 /w:1 /log:"c:\dest\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year% %hours%h-%minutes%m.log" /NP
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip -mx1 C:\c\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year%-%hours%h-%minutes%m.zip C:\dest
echo Y | DEL C:\Temp\*.*
I can use attrib command but I have in working folder 900.000 files so this is not option.
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edit....robocopy work as expected in 2012 standard. /M switch reset archive attribute so I can use robocopy for incremental backups.
Script: c:\a is source and c:\b is destination. c:\b\temp is temporary folder from where 7zip package backed up files to archive. After 7zip finish jod script delete all files folders from temp folder. I want to use zip archive because this will be much easier for file system. With time I will have some zip files instead 10000000 files or folders. Zip files will have in name date and time for easier tracking.
@echo offset year=%date:~10,4%
set month=%date:~4,2%
set day=%date:~7,2%
SET Now=%Time: =0%
SET Hours=%Now:~0,2%
SET Minutes=%Now:~3,2%
Robocopy c:\a c:\b\temp /s /m /r:1 /w:1 /log:"c:\b\temp\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year% %hours%h-%minutes%m.log" /NP
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip -mx1 C:\b\Incremental_%month%-%day%-%year%-%hours%h-%minutes%m.zip C:\b\Temp
set folder="C:\b\temp\"
cd /d %folder%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del "%%i" /s/q)
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Restoring Windows 7 System Image to a smaller Disk
Hi,
I want to change a Win7 64 system on an notebook with a 250GB HHD to a new 160GB SSD.
- Is it possible to restore a Win7 system image to a smaller drive?
- Is it necessary to shrink the partion on the source drive before creating the image?
- There are other parameters to consider?
I´ve just searched the internet and read this post from the sorage team blog but I can´t find a conclusive answer for that question...
thanks in advance
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Secondary Domain Controller
i have a windows server 2008 R2 Server which is domain controller and also have folder redirection and some group policy
settings on it and all folder redirection profiles are set on the same server so all files are there and if i setup another win2008 r2 server with secondary domain controller that can be as a backup for my active directory. just my question is if i do
that then will i have the same Group policy's settings automatically on the second server and also same folder redirection on it ? (just if my main server goes bad or crashed, then ill be able to use the second domain controller as a primary). ????
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Does a full backup includes system state backup?
Hello,
I have an easy question: Does the full backup with Windows Server Backup, configured by the WSB GUI as job, includes the system state backup?
I know that I have to use the command line wbadmin tool to perform an system state backup only. But I want to know if the full backup by WSB includes this by itself?
I want to backup a domain controller running Windows Server 2008 (_not_ R2) by WSB on a seperate hard drive.
Best Regards,
Burak
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