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Essentials Experience - Backup Unchanged Files

November 8, 2014, 2:58 am
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I have Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard installed with the Essentials Experience role installed.  The server drives are backed up on an external USB3 drive enclosure containing 4 drives twice a day.

As the server backup is taking a long time, I diagnosed that it was backing up many files who haven't change since a long time.  Some of them more than a year ago, as per the modified date of the file.  I can't say if it is backing up all the files each time, but I know he copy many unchanged files.  I was expecting that it would copy only the changed files.

Is there something wrong with my configuration?

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Less allocated space after VSS copy

November 13, 2014, 4:08 am
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Hi,

Windows 2008 R2, D: volume is 319GB total space and 228 GB free space. This volume is used for data. E: Volume is 499GB total space and 445GB free space. This volume is used to shadow copies from volume D, in order to have some versions of data.

It's suspicious the low space used for shadow copies on volume E. I'me checked volume changes during some days (shadow copies runs every day at 7:00 and 12:00) and I've noticed than sometimes there is more free space after a shadow copy completes. For example:

Shadow Copy day 1 12:00 - 51.698GB used shadow copy  storage space

Shadow Copy day 2 7:00 - 51.908GB used shadow copy  storage space

Shadow Copy day 2 12:00 - 52.193GB used shadow copy  storage space

Shadow Copy day 3 7:00 - 51.328GB used shadow copy  storage space

Why is occuring this? The volume where allocate shadow copies has enough free space  for save copies there, and not delete old shadow copies. It's suposing to fill the volume before delete old shadow copies.

I've cheked configuration, and is set to use the maximum space on volume E. I've traced the VSS, and all results are 0x00000000, that is succeed. I can enter to the shadow copies and seems to be correct.

I've noticed too that VSS service and Microsoft Software Shadow copy provider services stops automatically with no defined time sequence. It appears as event ID 7036 on system event viewer (service has entered the stopped state) and with event id 8224 on application event viewer (VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout). I don't know how to solve this, what I've done is set to automatically start these services, but I think is not the answer because I'm still with this stops.

Any help will be welcome!!

Regards,

Quique

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Server 2012 Essentials backup failure and Intel program folder/asc showing 75GB whst is this ?

November 24, 2014, 12:54 pm
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Firstly backup fails , backup drive is alive and well and attached to the server -

Error message says one or more selected items not included in server backup ?

Have been thru the suggestions and there is nothing in the backup inclusions that I can see that is not mean't to be there.

Have noticed that in Program Files (X86) intel/asc/erlang/lib there is 75GB data in there ?

Have several other servers running and they show 7-10gb in total in the same spot and wonder if this has something to do with the failure, or what these files actually do or how to reduce them.

The C:\ drive at this point is below 20gb free space could this cause it to fail.

AS if I run a disk cleanup and get the drive back to 21 or 22gb free space the backup will complete.

brucewhi@hotmail.com

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Help with Scheduled Backup. "task contains XML....."

November 24, 2014, 1:12 pm
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I've been chasing my tail the last few days trying to figure this out... help!

I'm am using Windows Server 2012 R2, as a domain controller....

I'm trying to set up a scheduled backup to complete once daily, at 9pm. I have gone through the wizard to set this up, and I have a Seagate NAS as the backup location. ie "\\nas ip address\backups"

Once I select the location, it prompts me for the user/pass for the NAS. Great, no problem. I enter it, and then it takes me to the "Confirmation" tab/page in the wizard.

When I hit "Finish", it shows the green scrolling status bar, and after about 10 seconds I get a popup warning of "the task XML contains a value which is incorrectly formatted or out of range".

??????

I've tried al sorts of things, but I'm still stuck. I'm not trying to create the backup in powershell, or anything like that. I'm not doing a "full" backup, just certain selected folders, .... why would I be getting this error???

FYI "Backup Once" starts to do the backup, then fails with the status "Backup failed to complete. An error occurred while writing to the backup target. Detailed error: The Parameter is incorrect." WHY?

The NAS drive is fully accessible, I know I have the right un/pass, etc etc...

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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problem doing 'child vm snapshot' backup (hot backup), VSS event id 521 error#:

November 24, 2014, 9:07 pm
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Host Server, 2012 R2 Data Center (latest updates)

Virtual Machine, 2012 R2 Essentials (latest updates)

Problem occurs when attempting to do (either in WSB GUI or PowerShell) "child VM snapshot" backup and fails with Backup Event ID 521, "A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for more information.  Detailed error: The operation ended before completion."

JobType          : Backup
StartTime        : 11/24/2014 10:52 PM
EndTime          : 11/24/2014 10:52 PM
JobState         : Completed
CurrentOperation :
HResult          : 807800A1
DetailedHResult  : 8078001D

Integration Services are... integrated and the VM has the necessary components.  However, it just does not make the VSS snapshot, it sits for a few seconds and terminates with the above error and the following event logged:

- System
  - Provider
   [ Name]  Microsoft-Windows-Backup
   [ Guid]  {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}

   EventID 521
   Version 2
   Level 2
   Task 0
   Opcode 0
   Keywords 0x8000000000000000

  - TimeCreated
   [ SystemTime]  2014-11-25T04:52:40.567308700Z
   EventRecordID 4850
   Correlation

  - Execution
   [ ProcessID]  4848
   [ ThreadID]  5016
   Channel Application
   Computer thehostcomputername
  - Security
   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18
  - EventData

  BackupTime 2014-11-25T04:52:35.410000000Z
  ErrorCode 0x807800a1
  ErrorMessage %%2155348129

The following is the script I use to build the backup job:

# Windows Server Backup - PowerShell
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# FileSpec for VM
#$VMFile = New-WBFileSpec -FileSpec 'F:\HyperVMs\VM\VM-001\vm001.vhdx'

#get VM Host Components
$VMHostComponent = Get-WBVirtualMachine | ?{$_.VMName -eq 'Host Component'}

#get VM object for backup
$VMTarget = Get-WBVirtualMachine | ?{$_.VMName -eq 'VM-001'}

#Set Backup Disk
$WBDisk = Get-WBDisk | ?{$_.DiskNumber -eq '4'}

#create backup target
$BackupTarget = New-WBBackupTarget -Disk $WBDisk -PreserveExistingBackups $true

#Create a policy
$WBPolicy = New-WBPolicy

#Set Schedule
Set-WBSchedule -Policy $WBPolicy -Schedule 06:00 #6am

#add backup target to policy
Add-WBBackupTarget -Policy $WBPolicy -Target $BackupTarget -Force

#add vms to policy
Add-WBVirtualMachine -Policy $WBPolicy -VirtualMachine $VMTarget
Add-WBVirtualMachine -Policy $WBPolicy -VirtualMachine $VMHostComponent

#adjust policy for VSS FullBackup
Set-WBVssBackupOptions -Policy $WBPolicy -VssFullBackup

#add filespec to policy
#Add-WBFileSpec -Policy $WBPolicy $VMFile

#set policy
Set-WBPolicy -Policy $WBPolicy

#start backup
Start-WBBackup -Policy $WBPolicy

I've remarked using FileSpec from the above script, which oddly enough actually works when enabled and commenting out the actual virtual machine addition to the policy.. which I thought was suppose to do the 'hot backup' or child vm snapshot.

Just a couple notes, the virtual disk is a differencing disk placed in a separate volume from the parenting vhd.  Is this a problem?  It doesn't seem to be one when I use FileSpec and grab the VM without the use of integration services.  I can actually watch the host build the temporary snapshot of the volume which retains the differencing VHD and when the backup is complete it is removed.

It is just trying to get integration services to make the hot backup causing problems.  Am I missing something from the policy or is there something obscure in the VM that needs to be checked?  I looked at the volumes within the virtual machine, and there is plenty of space available for VSS and the hosting volume does too...

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Installing Microsoft Backup on a Hyper-V Cluster

November 25, 2014, 11:29 am
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I would like to install the Microsoft Backup feature to an existing two node cluster. My question is should I install the Backup feature to each node or to the virtual cluster host machine?
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Wbadmin start backup hang on retrieving volume information

November 25, 2014, 5:55 pm
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Hi 

my schedule backup for the server seems to hang on retrieving volume information. Previously it was working fine.

Please help.

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Disk volume is not showing the correct disk space after added and extend 2 logical disk

November 25, 2014, 6:00 pm
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Hi

I have recently added 2 SAS HDD on my server and extend the array and volume to the logical disk. But somehow when it not showing the correct volume size as what the array is showing.

Please help.

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server 2003 backup

November 17, 2014, 7:06 pm
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i search from the internet and find some recommendation for server 2003 backup solution, i wonder which is better. the only requirment is userfriendly, and cheap of course. i am not intend to put too much energy into this. i know Acronis, Aomei and macrium, they seem good. are they? is there a possibity to get free edtion for server?

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Hyper-V backup issue

November 25, 2014, 9:03 pm
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WSB issues with Hyper-V guests.

Host is Windows Server 2012 R2, with all current updates installed. Only Hyper-V role.

There are 2 guests, call them guest A and guest B, which both have up to date integration components. Guests are both running Windows Server.

WSB jobs always reports "Completed with warnings". Configured for full server backup.

Guest A backs up online with no issues.

Guest B goes into saved state because it contains dynamic disks. (Guest B runs DPM, therefore by design we have no choice re dynamic disks).

Q 1:

"Pass-through and iSCSI disks are not visible to the host operating system and therefore not backed up by the Hyper-V VSS writer. Backups of these volumes must be done entirely within the VM."

Guest B uses iSCSI to connect to a NAS and that is where the dynamic disks reside.Considering the above statement, I was hoping the VM could be backed up online, as the dynamic disks are apparently not visible to the host.

Is there any tweak to ignore the dynamic disks so that the guest can be backed up online? Note we’re not trying to include the iSCSI volumes in the guest backup. The point is if the dynamic disks are not visible to the host because they’re iSCSI-based then why should this prevent an online backup of the guest?

Q 2:

I am trying to understand if the saved state backup is the reason the backup job is 'completing with warnings', or if we have a separate problem.

When the backup runs it backs up the physical volume containing the guest B VHDX, and it test restores successfully.

But the item in WSB named "guestb(Offline)", reports status "Backup failed to complete". It acknowledges that it is trying to do an offline backup since it says "(Offline)", so the dynamic disks should not be an issue being on offline backup.

I have tried disabling "Backup (volume checkpoint)" integration service component in the guest settings but it still fails with the same error.

When the same guest was running on Windows Server 2012 (R1) with Hyper-V this was not an issue. But since moving the guest to a new server running R2 we get "Backup failed to complete" and "Completed with warnings".

I have observed a similar issue with another customer using R2. If guest is shutdown i.e. Off, WSB reports the same error messages as above. Turn the VM back on, and it completes an online backup with no issues reported. It seems silly that we cannot get a clean backup result just because a guest is shutdown. Is this correct?


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Windows Server 2012 Backup - wbadmin - rotation breaks if server is rebooted during a backup process

November 20, 2014, 1:51 am
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Hi, 

I've got a weird issue that has been affecting us for a while. After running updates on the various servers that we have. It appears that if an update is applied and the servers rebooted whilst a backup is underway, the backup will fail - as expected - but future backups will then fail with 

XXXXXVM - The Specified Component was not reported by the VSS Writer 

The error within Event Viewer is :- 

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎11‎-‎20T00:46:18.510365400Z' has failed with following error code '0x80780049' (None of the items included in backup were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

The backup will then fail constantly, until the backup is stopped fully and then recreated, this is obviously not ideal in the slightest, especially with servers that have daily backup drives that then need to be added.

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Cannot see all networked PC's

November 17, 2014, 7:07 am
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Hi,

I have a 2008 R2 Server with 2 active NIC's. One connect to a public network 192.168.1.3. The 2nd NIC is connected to the work network with 10.95.10.1. In network places the server see's PC's from both network segment, but does not see all of them. Another PC that manages the public pc reservations and is connected the same way can see all 25 PC's.

My questions is how do I get the server to see all 25 PC's/

tHANKS


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Questions regarding Ws2012/2012r2 Backup

November 26, 2014, 7:09 pm
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Hi, I have some quesstions regarding WS2012 Backup

1)from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732540.aspx 
"If you use a remote shared folder, make sure that the folder is available, that you have write access to the folder, and that you are a member of the Administrators group or Backup Operators group on the computer hosting the folder. Each time you create a backup, it will overwrite the older backups so that you will only have one backup at a time. The backup will inherit the access control list (ACL) permissions of the folder."

Is possible to store multiple backups (Bare metal recovery + SystemState + C:)  on a external harddrive using just the GUI? 

2)i run "wbadmin get versions" and got a list of around 30previous backups of same server (Bare metal recovery + SystemState + C:) and every backup should be around 30GB, but if I mount the external hard drive reserved for backups i can only find one .vhdx of 30GB. Is it normal?

Thank you

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Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller unable to backup system state

November 27, 2014, 7:40 am
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We recently implement a new Windows 2012 R2 domain controller but have been unable to take a system state backup using Windows Backup.  We get the following error?

There was a failure in updating the backup for deleted items.  Error code 0x8078014D

We have other Windows 2012 R2 domain controllers that we can backup the system state on using Windows Backup without any issues.

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wbadmin start backup -templateId:{...

July 9, 2009, 12:14 am
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Hi,
when I schedule a full backup on windows 2008 I find in the task scheduler following Action:

... wbadmin.exe start backup -templateId:{...GUID...} -quiet

I wonder what the option -templateId means. I tried on another machine and got a different GUID.
I wolud like to start the backup with a batch command and wanted to know if I have to use the -templateId option or not.

Thanks Franco
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[SOLVED] Windows Server Backup - Went from 100+ copies...to 1 copy available

November 16, 2014, 2:50 pm
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Hi everyone,

I'm using Windows Server Backup on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system that has been in production for half a year or so.  The server has around 60GB used, and the backup drive is a 160GB external drive that I had sitting around and put it in place until they can afford a larger external drive.  The setup has been working great, and just yesterday when I opened the Windows Server Backup utility, I noticed that all backups have been successful and there were well over 100 backups available.  The external hard drive was showing "in the red" for space available, about 15GB free or so if I remember right.  But that's fine, since I understand that Windows Server Backup should delete the oldest backup available.

...OR...you know, it deletes everything.  So I log in today, and what do you know?  60ish GB used on the external drive, so plenty of free space.  But only 1 copy available.  Is...like...am I missing something?  Is that how it's supposed to work when the drive gets full?  I was under the impression it would delete files from the oldest snapshot and create a new backup.  Or delete several old snapshots.

Did something happen in a recent Windows update?  Any way to fix it?  In my little bit of searching before this, I found that some others have had experiences with at least Server 2008 where Windows Server Backup would all the sudden only keep 1 copy.  So I guess I'll know tomorrow whether or not that's happening to me; whether I see "1 copy available" again, or "2 copies available".

Thanks in advance for any advice!


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How can configure NFS v4 type file share.

November 26, 2014, 10:23 pm
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On windows server 2012 R2 am able to create NFS share.

But when i look at the version i could see Mounted version 3 where i would like to use version 4.

can somebody help me to configure the NFS v4 on the windows server 2012 r2

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Windows Server Backup 2008 R2 to Seagate FA GoFlex

November 2, 2010, 12:39 am
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Hi,

Whenever I try to do the windows full backups, it fails and gives me an error: (One of the backup files could not be created: Details error: The parameter is incorrect).

I am doing the windows server backup (2008 R2, hyper-V server), and backing up to the Seagate FA GoFlex.

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Lost server and some client computers in storm, I have a salvaged drive , how can I get data back on whole new systems?

October 24, 2014, 11:03 pm
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I had a significant loss of both the Servers and Clients in a big electrical spike, fortunately I have one drive of data that survived . I loaded server back into new hardware and it sees some back ups saying they are removed but it still has partials, it stops in retrieval at 81 % it is backing up to totally new computers so it tells me it doesn't recognized the operating systems, and therefore stops working, I have about 500 g in backups with some wide ranging files , but I am stuck as to how to either extract them from there drive positions now, or have the new machines recognized as the old that it appears it needs to work?
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Event ID 51

November 28, 2014, 7:24 am
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Hi,

Of 10 WS2012R2 backing up to either a NAS or a local USB drive, 6 generate the event ID 51 warning (An error was detected on device \Device\<var>DeviceName</var> during a paging operation) during the backup operation. All 6 servers are domain controllers.

The remaining 4 WS2012R2s do not log this warning, these 4 are not domain controllers.

What does this warning mean? Can we ignore this warning? The backup jobs run otherwise successfully.

Thanks

Ueli

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