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Can Windows Server Backup spread a single backup job across multiple disks if they are not set up as a virtual disk?

January 5, 2015, 10:31 am
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This may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find any definitive information after having done many, many searches.  Short question is - can Windows Server Backup spread a single backup job across multiple disks if they are not in a storage pool or some other RAID/JBOD structure?

Background:

I'm running Server 2012 Essentials with all Windows Updates installed.  I have been backing up approx 2.8TB of data (Bare Metal Recovery, C:, S: (shared folders), and system reserved) for the past year+ onto a storage pool made up of two-2TB external USB drives.  Backup is slow (takes approx 1.5 days to complete), but generally works.  Not surprisingly I was constantly getting capacity low messages so I decided to increase my backup storage pool by adding a 3TB drive and another spare 750GB drive for a total of 7.75TB.  Instead of having four separate external USB enclosures, I bot a 4-bay enclosure - Startech.com model #S3540BU33E to simplify this (or so I thought!).

The first problem I had was adding the two new drives to the existing storage pool. I think that is because the Startech uses a JMicron USB controller that reports identical uniqueid's for all drives so only one shows up in the GUI interface for creating storage pools. After doing research on this, I set up a new storage pool and virtual disk using all four drives via Powershell and thought I was good. However, when the backup ran, it failed after filling the first drive, saying there was no remaining capacity. In reality there were three remaining empty drives and there storage pool reported almost 5TB of avail capacity. I assumed this was due to the identical uniqueid issue so I decided to try a different tactic.

Instead of using a storage pool that combines all four disks into one virtual disk, I just added each of them to Windows Server Backup as individual drives thinking it would manage them collectively. I.e., when a drive filled up during a particular backup, it would just start using the next drive and so on. Apparently this was a foolish assumption because the backup failed again as soon as the first disk filled up.

So now I don't know if this is still an issue with the identical uniqueid's or if Server Backup actually can't spread a single backup across multiple individual drives that aren't in a pool or other virtual disk implementation. Hence, my original question.

My guess is that it does *not* spread them across individual disks, but I just wanted to get confirmation.

Thanks

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Backup failed as another backup or recovery is in progress

February 24, 2013, 9:37 pm
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Windows Server 2008 x64 SP2.

Every time when Windows Server Backup job starts some errors appear:

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Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          2/21/2013 4:00:08 AM
Event ID:      518
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      XXX
Description:
Backup started at '2/21/2013 12:00:08 AM' failed as another backup or recovery is in progress. Please re-run backup.
Event Xml:
< Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1db28f2e-8f80-4027-8c5a-a11f7f10f62d}" />
    <EventID>518</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-02-21T00:00:08.164Z" />
    <EventRecordID>825326</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="2904" ThreadID="7980" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>XXX</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2013-02-21T00:00:08.096Z</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorCode">2155347991</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155347991</Data>
  </EventData>
< /Event>

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There is only one backup job (it was created with GUI):

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wbadmin enable backup
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

The scheduled backup settings:

Volumes in backup: V1(C:),V2(F:),D2(D:),D1(E:)
Location to store backup: MSFT Virtual HD  Multi-Path Disk Device
Times of day to run backup: 04:00

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I have just one backup job. This job is scheduled for a single run per day.

The associated Task Scheduler job was not modified.

There is no another backup or recovery operation running.

How can I get rid of this error?

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wbadmin path specified does not exist

January 14, 2015, 9:24 am
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wbadmin is failing to recognise the iscsi attached disk drive as a valid disk to include in windows server backup.

The error returned is:

  • The path specified by '\\?\volume{cbb973dc-e5d9-4c4e-9a39-ca96dannnnnn}\' was not found.  The specified file path does not exist or was not on a locally attached disk.

Well it isn't on a locally attached disk it is on a remote iscsi disk, is this saying that windows backup cannot backup data on an iscsi attached disk or is there some alternative way of referring to an iSCSI disk that I should be using instead?

wbadmin get disks returns:

  • Disk name: LIO-ORG md_block1a SCSI Disk Device
    Disk number: 3
    Disk identifier: {cbb973dc-e5d9-4c4e-9a39-ca96dannnnnn}
    Total space: 119.20 GB
    Used space : 17.96 GB
    Volumes: T:[Test]


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Smoke Testing Technet_please ignore6

January 14, 2015, 10:42 pm
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Smoke Testing Technet_please ignore6
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Windows Server 2008 r2 Incremental backup on NAS

June 22, 2012, 10:38 am
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Is it possible to have scheduled incremental backup to NAS?

Thanks in advance!

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Incremental and Full backups using WBADMIN and Task Scheduler in Server 2008 R2

May 22, 2012, 1:37 pm
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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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Incremental backup in server 2008 server r2 edition

March 23, 2012, 5:01 am
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i am unable to take incremantal backup in my machine ,plz guide me to take incrental backup
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Has anybody had an issue with System State Backups on a Dell PowerEdge R510 Server running Server 2008 R2?

January 15, 2015, 8:23 am
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Hi,

We have recently had issues running system state backups on our 2008 R2 Domain Controllers.  They are running on Dell PowerEdge R510 Physical Hardware.  Whenever you initiate a system state backup,  the Domain Controller becomes unresponsive forcing us to physically reboot it.   Nothing in the Event logs or the Dell Open Management Hardware Software indicates issues with Phyiscal disks but we can always replicate the issue by starting the system state backup. 

The system state backup is initialted as a batch file that runs as a scheduled task.   the commands run are as follows:

WBADMIN START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -backupTarget:[drive letter] -quiet

We have 4 Domain Controllers with identical disk configurations.  When the DCs were setup I confirmed the system state backups were working but the issue started occuring sometime in Dec 2014.  We are going to run the Dell Hardware Update Utility to update the RAID, BIOS, Firmware updates but Has anyone experienced a similar issue that may have been triggerd by a Microsoft Patch?

Thanks,

Kevin C.

kconway@fnalgov


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Incremental only backup on a shadow copy enabled shared volume when I want full

January 15, 2015, 9:37 am
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I'm stuck.

On a 2012 r2 server we have a volume with shadow copies enabled to a separate volume.

Using Windows Backup I want to do a full backup and have selected that and changed the 'Configure Performance Settings' to 'Full Backup' for the volume.  Yet no matter how I try it only reports as having done an Incremental Backup and the amount of data reported backed up up supports this.  Is this a known behavior for volumes with Shadow Copies enabled?  Can I force the backup to full?

Thanks for any help!

Brent

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smoke Test thread(please ignore) -Ismanaged Technet

January 15, 2015, 10:23 pm
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install quickbooks on 2008 server

January 16, 2015, 3:32 am
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is there a way to install quickbooks on an 2008 server?
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System State Backup Failed on windows server 2008 R2. Need Urgent Help !!

January 18, 2015, 10:31 pm
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Event Log:The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎01‎-‎18T06:28:26.580441900Z' has failed with following error code '2155347997' (The operation ended before completion.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Issue :System State Backup Failed on windows server 2008 R2. This is not a VM and Virtual Box and SQL is not present on the system . This is a Physical machine.

I referred to the thread and didn't find the solution. That was also bit similar kind of issue .Can anyone please help me to get it resolved.

Thanks in Advance !!


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Backup to another server in domain

January 19, 2015, 7:59 am
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Hi there. I've got scenario like this: we have redirected folders of users my documents and desktop folders to one server (SRV1). On the second server (SRV2) we have backup schedule configured that backups users local folders and a company shared folder. I wonder whether configuring backup schedule on SRV1 to backup files to shared folder on SRV2 is the only possible way? We really want all backups to be located in the same volume, not locally.

Thanks in advance.

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0x8100014 error

July 17, 2010, 8:38 pm
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Recently my backups have started to fail. The interesting thing is that all failures appear to be related to a lack of space. What makes this interesting is that disk I am trying to back up is using 117GB and has 170GB free and the drive that I'm backing up to is an externally attached USB 2.0 drive that is using 147GB and has 784GB free.

I ran all the disk checks and defragmented the external drive and I erased all of the old backups and started a full backup. I got as far as creating "Backup files 100.zip" when the system gave me the 0x8100014 error.

Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how I might fix it?

Thanks

Sam

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Winsxs folder shrinked would this impact exchange 2010 service pack 3 installed on win 2008 r2

January 20, 2015, 11:34 pm
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Hi Team,

unfortunately we have shrinked the winsxs folder from 18 GB to 13 GB in one of our win 2008 r2 sp1 server holding exchange 2010 service pack 3 . Is there would be any impact while installing any new service packs in coming days  or there would be any issue with it now

command used for shrinking the winsxs folder : "dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded" 

the command runned successful.

please help me on this issue...

Thanks,

Ravinder

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Error 0x8078002A when trying to back up windows 7 to my seagate hard drive

January 21, 2015, 1:58 am
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Hi,

I keep getting this error when trying to back up windows 7 to my new seagate hard drive. It says ' one of the files could not be created... because of an I/O device error.

I have tried restarting the computer and then backing up but that didnt work.

What do I need to do?

Regards

Ellie

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backup top network drive

January 21, 2015, 8:38 am
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guys, we are running Windows Server 2012 R2, any way be can backup a folder to a network drive, the only options within windows backup are attached device, or cloud.
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allcritical wants to backup a obviously non-critical partition

May 25, 2010, 9:58 am
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Hello

When running Windows Backup with parameter -allcritical it wants to include my data partition which is in my eyes not critical. In disk management console I checked if a critical system function is provided by this partiton but it's only a primary partition, nothing else.

Which parameters are also checked by Windows Backup to determine critical partitions?

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we ran shrink on Winsxs folder, would this impact exchange 2010 service pack 3 installed on win 2008 r2 stan sp1

January 20, 2015, 11:34 pm
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Hi Team,

unfortunately we have shrinked the winsxs folder from 18 GB to 13 GB in one of our win 2008 r2 sp1 server holding exchange 2010 service pack 3 . Is there would be any impact while installing any new service packs in coming days  or there would be any issue with it now

command used for shrinking the winsxs folder : "dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded" 

the command ran successful.

please help me on this issue.

Thanks,

Ravinder


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Can't Backup because of a FAT32 partition that is holding Bootmgr, Boot Folder, Recycle Bin and BOOTSECT.BAK files.

January 21, 2015, 11:31 am
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Hey all,

I got a new server that came with Server 2008 R2 on it. I promoted it to a DC and got some other things installed on it.

I fired up a backup and tried to set a schedule but when I add all the drives and Bare Metal Recovery etc. I get a message

Volume OS have an unsupported file system and cannot be backed up. 

So I assign a letter to that partition and I see that it's a FAT32 that holds the Bootmgr, Boot Folder, Recycle Bin and BOOTSECT.BAK files. 

Is it possible to move these file to the C drive so I can delete the FAT32 partition and still be able to boot up and backup?

If yes, please tell me how?

I don't want to reformat the server because I will have to demote it and other stuff...

Thank you

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