I keep getting out of space messages for my backup disk even though (*I think*) I've given Windows complete control over managing that space. Is there some way to have the completely automated so Windows doesn't just spam backup copies and then stop bc it ran out space?

I am using the built in Win 7 backup control panel to backup my files to a dedicated second internal hard drive (E) ~700GB capacity  from my C drive ~300GB used of 600GB capacity. Today I got the message The disk where your backups are being saved doesn't have enough free space. I clicked on some button to delete older backups to free up space and deleted the oldest one which it said was using up about 200GB.

I have the

Manage Windows Backup disk space->Change Settings->Let Windows manage space used for backup history (max 200GB) option selected

I also have System Restore disabled for E (as it is only a backup and enabled for C as that is where my data and OS lives- or at least that is my reasoning)

Hi Everyone,

I have single server domain environment with Server 2012 Std. and MS SQL 2012.

The problem is, I can’t perform backup. I’m fighting almost three weeks.

On two occasions, I have been successful. I used suggestions from Microsoft TechNet, however after several day performing backup, without any reasons, the problem appears back.

Now I can’t find solution about this error:

The error message is Event ID 8193:

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CreateVssExamineWriterMetadata. hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.

Check the Application event log for more information.

Operation:

   Writer Exposing its Metadata

Context:

   Execution Context: Requestor

   Writer Instance ID: {2A478936-603E-4202-997C-458A46F0301F}

   Writer Class Id: {E8132975-6F93-4464-A53E-1050253AE220}

   Writer Name: System Writer

I did check VSS writers list:

C:\>vssadmin list writers

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool

(C) Copyright 2001-2012 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: 'SqlServerWriter'

   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}

   Writer Instance Id: {d9b1eedd-23b7-4ed3-a012-2c6bdf5a01ca}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'

   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}

   Writer Instance Id: {81b3c537-771b-4c3f-83e5-8e6e5471d229}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'

   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}

   Writer Instance Id: {f291416a-f7c5-4b57-a3a1-5a03983efed8}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'

   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}

   Writer Instance Id: {e671f460-7782-4043-b8cd-3c1dde2b80d9}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'

   Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}

   Writer Instance Id: {5248dd01-dc52-42f4-b7f7-62f79aaacbea}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'

   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}

   Writer Instance Id: {54d5e97b-bc0d-4927-96e8-9e6db7bfc322}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'

   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}

   Writer Instance Id: {ef0120aa-96b6-4bca-bf30-1fb8c17e023a}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'

   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}

   Writer Instance Id: {2e906301-7e6e-4ce1-8417-78ef1556722b}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'DFS Replication service writer'

   Writer Id: {2707761b-2324-473d-88eb-eb007a359533}

   Writer Instance Id: {0b2eef10-f971-421a-9f32-87e48aae01be}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'NTDS'

   Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}

   Writer Instance Id: {2d579b36-ed89-41b9-a5ac-feb572d3514f}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: No error

I know, System Writer is missing.

There a lot suggestion on WEB, however nothing helps. Everything else, on the server, works fine.

The suggestion from Microsoft: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee264196(v=ws.10).aspx, is bizarre.

Of course, the Volume Shadow Copy is set to manual.

Also I did try several other sites, ex.: http://systemadministratorrecipes.blogspot.com/2012/08/event-id-8193-vss-error-server-2008-r2.html, but nothing helps.

Does anyone have any idea?

Best regards,

Aleksandar B. MCITP/MCSA

Hello folks,

please can anybody give me advise?

I am running two Dell servers with Windows SRV 2012 STD, I am able to backup server on Synology RS 812 without any issue but I am unable to backup servers on WD MyCloud 2TB.

Errors are follow:

There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.
 Detailed error: Incorrect function

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎11‎-‎30T17:39:53.657001600Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800C5' (There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

I tried lot of resolution I found on the interent - SMB2 and 3 disabling, make shared folder public, run backup with and without NAS credentials and so on.

These settings doesnt help me also:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/c2032e37-ebe9-4221-9d37-5525fcdaae19/windows-8-backup-win7-file-recovery-system-image-creation-to-nas-device-fails-with-error?forum=w8itprogeneral

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/What-capabiliities-does-My-Cloud-offer-on-the-local-LAN/td-p/601011

Thank you for every help.

Regards,

Jan

Jendislav

Hey,

I'm using DPM 2012 backup system status for Windows Server 2008 R2, it failed with WSB Event ID: 521, WSB Error Code:  0x65C8C0). From Event log on protected computer, there is Event 512 and  error code 2155348249, the error appears to be caused by low disk space on the protected computer, however with my validation, the free disk still has about 40GB on the system volume(Note: protected computer just only one driver C:)

What should I next? Thanks.

Steve Xu

Hi,

Removable Storage Manager option is not available in Add/Remove Features of Server Manager.

I also tried Installing the "Windows6.1-KB974674-x64" but no luck, it prompts to turn on the Removable Storage Management.

Please help me to enable the RSm in Add/Remove features of Server Manager.

Thanks!

FreeLibrary Fails with Application verifier

Hi guys,

I have problems with windows server backup. I received every day 2 notifications, 1 is Windows backup successful and the other is Windows backup failed. It's since I'm getting during every backup warning event 51: The backup storage location is running low on free space. Future backup operations that store backups on this location may fail because of not enough space.

I deleted all old shadow copies but nothing changed.  Backup is saving to 2 .vmdk files. Via vSphere client I found out that size of these files is greater than provisioned size of these disks. Is it possible ? Can be this problem ? Thanks for your replies.

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

I'm having trouble backing up one of our servers.

I've tried to take a manual shadow copy, but that fails too.

This is the output from the diskshadow:

DISKSHADOW> set context persistent

DISKSHADOW> set verbose on
istent
DISKSHADOW> add volume C:

istent
DISKSHADOW> add volume \\?\Volume{21d0911e-a727-11e2-8124-806e6f6e6963}\

DISKSHADOW> create
me \\?\Volume{21d0911e-a727-11e2-8124-806e6f6e6963}\Excluding writer "Shadow Copy Optimization Writer", because all of its components have been excluded.

* Including writer "Task Scheduler Writer":+ Adding component: \TasksStore

* Including writer "VSS Metadata Store Writer":+ Adding component: \WriterMetadataStore

* Including writer "Performance Counters Writer":+ Adding component: \PerformanceCounters

* Including writer "SqlServerWriter":+ Adding component: \ASTAREG-APP01\ASTAREG\master
--removed several lines to keep it readable. (approx 1400 lines)+ Adding component: \ASTAREG-APP01\ASTAREG\unit_450

* Including writer "System Writer":+ Adding component: \System Files

* Including writer "ASR Writer":+ Adding component: \ASR\ASR+ Adding component: \Volumes\Volume{21d0911e-a727-11e2-8124-806e6f6e6963}+ Adding component: \Volumes\Volume{21d0911f-a727-11e2-8124-806e6f6e6963}+ Adding component: \Disks\harddisk0+ Adding component: \BCD\BCD

* Including writer "Registry Writer":+ Adding component: \Registry

* Including writer "COM+ REGDB Writer":+ Adding component: \COM+ REGDB

* Including writer "WMI Writer":+ Adding component: \WMI

The last operation failed.
	- Returned HRESULT: 80042302
	- Error text: VSS_E_UNEXPECTED

Output from vssadmin list writers:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\administrator.LOCAL>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Waiting for responses.
These may be delayed if a shadow copy is being prepared.

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: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {1642a445-03f7-47aa-8c2a-026970ffe2a5}
   State: [11] Failed
   Last error: Retryable error

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {c7f14ce1-862d-469c-a0f6-4d04f40a6154}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {8b7f6ee8-caec-426f-9bb8-a4604676be94}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {31e7e45c-a2d2-444a-9658-08f51e1223c5}
   State: [5] Waiting for completion
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {03f58120-3f0f-4388-8d79-b18780dac432}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {33d15e4b-bf9e-4fd5-a85c-491b55cda09e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {b048fc99-96a3-4c76-8077-a5e85f34c768}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

I have a brand new 2008R2 SP1 server (Domain Controller) where I try to make SystemState backup. Backup seems to work fine, but I can not delete oldest.
I'm uncertain if I do have a valid SS backup.

I take backup with this command:

C:\>wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:D:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Starting to back up the system state [04-08-2011 08:45]...
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up the system state from volume(s) Local Disk(EFI System Partitio
n) (200.00 MB),C-OS(C:) to D:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y

Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Windows Server Backup is updating the backup for deleted items.
This might take a few minutes.
Found (96) files.
Found (13207) files.
Found (29482) files.
Found (39566) files.
Found (78588) files.
Found (79088) files.
The search for system state files is complete.
Starting to back up files...
The backup of files reported by 'Task Scheduler Writer' is complete.
The backup of files reported by 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is complete.
The backup of files reported by 'Performance Counters Writer' is complete.
Overall progress: 1%.
Currently backing up files reported by 'System Writer'...
 - continuing to 100% -

Summary of the backup operation:
------------------

The backup of the system state successfully completed [04-08-2011 08:59].
Log of files successfully backed up:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If I check the backup with "Get Versions", I get this:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\>wbadmin get versions
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Backup time: 30-07-2011 21:00
Backup target: Fixed Disk labeled D:
Version identifier: 07/30/2011-19:00
Can recover: Volume(s), File(s), Application(s), System State
Snapshot ID: {6f4f38c8-3d3c-4e9f-87fb-d7cdb9c13c59}
 - several other backups-

Backup time: 04-08-2011 08:45
Backup target: Fixed Disk labeled D:
Version identifier: 08/04/2011-06:45
Can recover: Volume(s), File(s), Application(s), System State
Snapshot ID: {ae749899-447f-4c6d-b2d3-06c2f1816541}

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So far everything seems ok.
But when I try to delete the oldest backup, things look weired:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -deleteOldest
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Enumerating system state backups...
ERROR - No system state backups were found.
This command can be used to delete backups that only contain the system state.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If I try with -keepversions, I get same result:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C:\>wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -keepversions:1
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

Enumerating system state backups...
ERROR - No system state backups were found.
This command can be used to delete backups that only contain the system state.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

So do I have a valid Systemstate backup ?
And can I trust I can use it to recover if needed, since it says "No system state backups were found" ?
And why can't I delete the oldest backup ?

- Duelund

This is on Windows Server 2012R2 Essentials specifically. But I saw the same behavior on 2012 Essentials before switching.

Both on the Dashboard's alerts and daily health reports, it indicates that one or more drives are unhealthy and need to be fixed. However, it does not list any disk specifically. This occurs several minutes after the backups are scheduled, and will change when it happens if I change the time for the backups. 

This happens EVERY DAY. Deleting or ignoring the reports just cause it to come back. Disabling backups, or disconnecting the drive they're stored on doesn't fix it. Neither does formatting the drive and setting up backups again.

I've not found any specific errors, and I've scanned the system partitions using their volume ID, and that hasn't helped.

No virus scanner nor disk tools are installed. There are no 3rd party file system filters installed either.

The Event Viewer doesn't indicate any issues specifically either.

This is frustrating and annoying.

Hi all.

Why do we non-authoritative restore? Much easier to promote new server and replicate it.

Hi,

I have read through for forum to see any previous posts that can apply to the problem I have. There are a few but none of those are answered with solution. If anyone knows the answer for fixing my backup problem below, I will send a million thanks :)

I have a Windows server 2012 R2 standard running as a file server. It has drives as below:

C drive: O/S

D drive: DVD rom

E drive: data. Shared folder. Users map to shared folder in E drive

F drive: Backups drive. Use it to backup the "E\share" folder

E drive has a folder called "share". This folder has about 2TB

F drive has 4.5TB. It's a set of raided drives, Raid 5 using Dell Powervault MD 1000

I'm using the built-in Windows server backup utility(wbadmin) to backup E\share to F drive. The problem is that the backup utility can only keep 1(one) backup file. The properties of F drive shows it has plenty of space. However, if I run 5 backups within one day, it does NOT delete previous backups. The problem is it delete all backups when next day the backup runs. Question is:

Why doesn't it delete other backups ran within the same day?

Why does it delete all backups on the next day it runs the backup?

It appears that it's not the hardware or F drive issues in my case. It's something with configuration or setting under Windows registry and it flags to delete all backups on the next day the wbadmin backup runs. I already formatted and re-installed Windows server 2012 on this machine and it does the same. Did anyone in here ever have this weir situation like this before? I also replaced all the drives in MD1000 to make a new F drive but the backup still does the same.  It's weirder than weird. I have spent my time for last 3 weeks but could not find a solution to fix this issue. Please help...

Hi! 

I have a following error while doing scheduled backups: "Failure while compacting the virtual disk on the backup location"OS is Server 2012 R2 Essential 

I use a dedicated HDD for backups. Its a WD GREEN 3TB. 

Any suggestions? 

LOGS:

• EROOR: The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎06‎-‎27T00:57:25.744931200Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800C5' (There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
• WARNING: The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎06‎-‎26T16:30:31.944377600Z' has completed with errors. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Hai All

I have got Windows Storage Server 2008 running on a WD Sentinel DX4000. Recently my company bought a couple of new Dell laptops all running windows 8.1 64bit OS. Only three older laptops were left. Now for the fun part...I installed the connectors pointing to the Sentinel on the laptops, and as expected the pc's show on the dashboard of the Storage Server, but all of the backups fail on the newer laptops. I installed the connectors on the older laptops as well and they go through no problem

The only difference between the older laptops and the new ones are the GPT partition drives and laptops running on UEFI, the older laptops, although running the same OS, do not have GPT and UEFI. I looked at the Event Viewer and found three errors to do with the backup: Event 514 pointing to a ClientVSSProblem, Event 8194 pointing to Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querrying for the VSSWriterCallback interface, hr=0x80070005,Access Denied and the last one is Event 513 CAPI2, Cryptographic Service failed while processing onIdentity() call in the System Writerobject Details: AddLegacyDriverFiles: Unable to back up image of binary Microsoft Link-Layer Discovery Protocol. I did as most articles suggested but with no change. From changing registries to taking ownership of the %windir% and adding the NT AUTHORITY, the NT Service and BUILTIN\Users. No change.

Help is much appreciated before i make a boat anchor out of the WD Sentinel.

Kind regards

Hi, 

I have a script running the below 

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\192.*.*.*\Jupitor\serverBackup\%dd%%mm%\CDrive -include:C: -vssFull -quiet > cDrive_log.txt
Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\192.*.*.*\jupitor\serverBackup\%dd%%mm%\DDrive -include:D: -vssFull -quiet > dDrive_log.txt

I run this command wbadmin start recovery -version: ***********-** -itemtype:file -items:d:\bkup\monday\**.dbf  it shows me "invalid specific path"

Thanks and Regards Cityuser

I am having trouble restoring an existing backup using windows server backup. The backup is stored on a network share. 

I goto recovery wizard > a backup stored on another location > remote shared folder > and then I enter my shared folder: 

\\share-pc\SERVERNAME\WindowsImageBackup\SERVERNAME\Backup 2014-12-05 013008

I then get this message:

"The specified remote share does not contain any backups. Provide a path to a remote shared folder that contains backups."

 I have confirmed that all of the following paths fail:

\\share-pc\SERVERNAME\WindowsImageBackup\SERVERNAME\Backup 2014-12-05 013008

\\share-pc\SERVERNAME\WindowsImageBackup\SERVERNAME\

\\share-pc\SERVERNAME\WindowsImageBackup\

\\share-pc\SERVERNAME\

I can ping the machine and mount the shares on the server as well.

Any thoughts?

Dear Sir,

I was keeping all my in and out emails in Microsoft outlook.

Suddenly i had a Virus in my laptop, and all my sent/received emails were lost and i do not have any backup.

Could you please see if you have my emails in your server, send them to me to my email account:

m.nasr@ipglebanon.com

Will appreciate very much

Thank you

Mohammad Abou El Nasr