WSE2012. Backup regularly hangs while trying to back up one of our server disks to an external usb drive.  Both source and destination drives check out ok - no fragmentation, disk errors, plenty of free space.  Tried to Stop the backup gracefully via the UI by right-mouse clicking the server listed in Dashboard>Devices tab and choosing Stop backup... but this is unable to stop it.  

Tried to stop the block level backup engine service exe (wbengine.exe) but it appears to be orphaned and unkillable.  

Task Manager shows wbengine.exe is running, so I've tried doing these things from an elevated command prompt:

1. wbadmin stop job   -- this returns The process could not be terminated. There is no running instance of the task.

2. TASKKILL /F /IM wbengine.exe - same error message as above.

Short of rebooting the machine or unplugging the usb drive (which sometimes works but leads to data corruption), how can the backup be stopped and restarted?

Server 2008 R2 SP1 using Windows Server Backup connected to NAS via iSCSI. Scheduled nightly backups have been working correctly for over a year.

A running backup has been stuck for 12+hours with the message "Removing deleted items..." There is plenty of storage available on the NAS.

Attempting to cancel the job via GUI brings up another window "Please wait..." with a progress bar continually looping from 0 to 100%. Running cmd as Administrator using wbadmin stop job,  prompts Yes or No , answering Y doesn't responds with a blank line. I can't reboot the server until the weekend, are there processes or other services I can try to stop?

Lou H.

We've been running Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2012 Essentials successfully for a while now.  Backups are performed nightly and have been completing successfully on a schedule.  We have been rotating between 3 (sometimes 4) USB connected external drives.  Yesterday, I changed the configuration to target just 1 drive.  It was 75% complete this morning but I wanted to stop the backup to continue some configuration changes (we recently encrypted both our internal system and data drives -both are included in the backups - and I wanted to start a BitLocker encryption of one of another backup drive)

The documented way to Stop a Backup from Dashboard is to simply find your server in Devices, right-mouse-click it, and choose "Stop backup for the server".  Unfortunately, this has no effect and the backup appears to be hung (have waited a couple of hours now for it to stop gracefully).

I have tried launching wbadmin but it, too, appears to be hung showing "Reading data; please wait..."

Short of physically disconnecting the USB drive or rebooting the server, is there any way to stop the processes involved?  I have had trouble trying to locate the processes involved via Task Manager.  When I do, I can usually kill backup in this fashion, but I usually have to follow this with a server reboot before I can use Windows Backup successfully again.  So any help here would be appreciated.

This issue of not being able to stop a running backup has been frequent with us under many different circumstances and usually happens whenever we suspect a backup will not finish in a timely fashion (for example, changing the backup schedule to target a different number of drives when not all our drives are physically connected seems to confuse Windows Server Backup).  Workaround has been just to wait for the backup to finish - even if it appears to be hung.  Sometimes it finishes, other times not.

Checking the event log, it shows a volsnap Event ID 25 error from early this morning that may or may not be related to the fact we can't stop the backup.  Interestingly, the description in Event Viewer for this error reads "The description for Event ID 25 from source volsnap cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer. If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event. The following information was included with the event:  \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy239 I: The locale specific resource for the desired message is not present"  -- Why??  

I think this is referring to our recently encrypted drive which I assigned a device letter of "I:".  It is connected to the server along with our "hung" backup drive that I had targeted yesterday when I changed our Backup Schedule and configuration.

Thanks in advance for any help or insight you can share.

Carl

Hello,
I'm writing about Windows Server Backup (Win. 2012 R2): Is there a formula I can apply to estimate free space needed ?

Thank you,
Luca

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Hi All,

I have a problem similar to the following one:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsbackup/thread/ff4cbf80-0146-4682-bcf2-92fc0d093284

The question is:

We ordered our latest DELL PowerEdge server without OS and after installing Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 discovered this hidden 2GB OS partition. After assigning a drive letter Z: to it I discovered that it's empty (I don't see any file or folder in it) but the hard disk drive / properties reports 14.4MB of used space and 1.98GB of free space. Even showing hidden files and folder I cannot understand what those 14.4MB refer to.

Is this partition useful or not, shall I delete it or convert it to NTFS? We need to start doing the full backup on this server.

Thanks,

Alberto

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          7/22/2009 10:47:53 AM
Event ID:      519
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      FCSERVER2.Fellowship.local
Description:
The description for Event ID 519 from source Microsoft-Windows-Backup cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

EV_RenderedValue_0.00
F:
2147942402
%%2147942402

The locale specific resource for the desired message is not present

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>519</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>2</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-07-22T14:47:53.948Z" /><EventRecordID>31560</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="1260" ThreadID="4248" /><Channel>Application</Channel><Computer>FCSERVER2.Fellowship.local</Computer><Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /></System><EventData><Data Name="BackupTime">2009-07-22T14:32:35.872Z</Data><Data Name="FailedVolumeNames">F:</Data><Data Name="ErrorCode">2147942402</Data><Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2147942402</Data></EventData></Event>

My Exchange 2013 backup is already 40 GB, but my database is only 1 GB or so.  I haven't even full migrated from my 2010 installation so not all the mailboxes have moved over yet.

Any idea why it is so large and anyway to make it smaller?

Hi,

I have a W2008R2 with VSS configured and running, I can see shadow copies till today saved in a volume D:, but when I go to see previous versions of a file or directory inside this volume, these previous versions don't appear since 17/11/2014. This date I changed the max value for number os shadow copies via registry editor, but I didn't check previous versions in files and directories later.

I've checked writers with vssadmin command, and all writers are ok. No errors in system logs neither. I've tried restarting VSS service with no result.

Is there any place I can check for solve this?

Regards,

Quique

We have a windows share that we dump multiple windows backup images from our servers.   We have 1 server consistently failing when performing a manual "Backup Once...." operation.  

The error message in the Windows Backup gui is: "Failed The parameter is incorrect"  

The event log shows an error of 517 with the message: "

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎01‎-‎12T14:25:20.681861800Z' has failed with following error code '2147942487' (One or more arguments are invalid). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

"

The strange part is when we choose a different location to accept the backup we have success.  The backup starts, but fails between 1-6 GB transferred. 

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Effecomp snc Montecchio Maggiore (VI)

Hello, I have a WD Sentinel DX4000 12TB unit and it’s recently been locking up.

After talking to WD Help they recommended I ‘Perform a Recovery’.

However every time I get to the last stage I get the error message ‘Error Code: 0x8007000d’

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

Recover your server

Could not reset the server to factory default settings

Your server was not reset to the factory default settings. Resolve the issue, and then restart the server recovery process.

Error Code: 0x8007000d

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

On the drive its says 'Recovery Started' but no progress number.

This drive has 9 years of my life on it and I am just a bit panicked.

Any help much appreciated,

Thor

Hi All,

I'm currently experiencing problems with my Windows 2012 Server Backup (Windows 2012 Essentials). I backup my data to a dedicated Iscsi drive (on a Synology box) using the build-in Windows Server Backup tool. Everything was running fine with at one moment 20 backups available. After that the diskspace was nearing it's limit of 2.5 TB. 

As described by Microsoft the windows backup tool should, when nearing it's limit, delete the oldest snapshot and as a result keep e.g. 20 backups but moving the oldest backup-day consequently. 

My problem is that this did not happen. It instead deleted all the current copies and started over fresh! So only ONE copy available (clearing all the 20 stored backups!!). This is very unwanted and basically eliminates the entire use of the backup software!

When looking at the windows logfile I saw that a lot of vhdmp warnings were present with a message like:

Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort3, was issued.

Eventueally I also saw a eventID 33 followed by and error on eventID 33

The shadow copies of volume \\?\Volume{93896cfc-d904-11dd-8cb5-001ec9ef572e} were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time.  Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow copied

It seems that because the drive is somehow to slow to respond (maybe iscsi isn't getting enough IO throughput) and Windows thinks the snapshots are unavailable and deletes ALL the snapshows and starts over fresh.

Some People suggest to set a limit on the shadow copies. But others have reported this does not work. A thread about this exists but no answer from Microsoft until now :(. Relevant discussions here and here

Does anyone have an answer to mitigating these problems? It basically destroys my backup plan! Surely others will be doing the same things (backing up to a dedicated media with limited space ?)

Regards, Martin

We have Windows 2003&2008R2 Servers in our environment. Every time we patch our servers, we run into some issue or the other. Some times uninstalling patches does not help and we need to recover from a backup.  We have seen that it takes a very long time to restore them from backup, there by causing huge application down times.

Is there a way we can circumvent this problem? Some thing like a recover point which can help roll back quickly to a previous state.

We have a mix of physical and virtual servers. Taking snapshots on hundreds of servers is not an option due to capacity constraints.

Pls advise.

I am setting up a replacement server and looking for a MS procedure to be able to swap out disks either daily or weekly to allow for offsite storage. I would like to be able to do this by simply unplugging one drive and plugging the other one in.

The dashboard does not appear to keep the first drive that I added as a backup device if it is not connected.

It appears that when I change disks, I have to go through the setup routine again and if there is data on the disk, it can be erased or kept. If the data is kept, does it add to the data or start over again?

I did read an article indicating that both backup devices need to be connected when you do the setup, unfortunately I left my second usb3 cable at work so I can not test that tonight.

Am I better off to use software that comes with the drive (WD My book).

I am also trying to do a restore of data from a 2011 essentials server and when I plug the drive in, I am prompted to  setup the drive and am a bit nervous that this setup might attack the data on the backup that I brought home.

On another issue with the "MY Book", when I did the setup of one drive on 2012, the drive was recognized and formatted however when I tried the same on 2011, the drive would not work as it seemed like the format did not happen. Brought the drive home and it formatted and is operating on 2012. Will see what happens when I take it back to work tomorrow.

As I am stumbling around, any advice should be concise as I get confused easily.

Kevin

hi 

not sure this is the right place to ask this question

i have a windows 2012 r2 server running hyper -v and using windows backup + iscsi  for backup

i often get bosd error while the backup is running

whocrashed says that its caused by network driver

this has happened quite a few times.

MEMORY.dmp file is very huge.

i also have the minidump files

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=820B0E58FCC2CBE!113&authkey=!ADyfPKLGNP-V1eo&ithint=file%2czip

if any one can give some info on how to fix this i would really appreciate it. 

thanks in advance

System Information (local)
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computer name: HOSTSERVER
windows version: Windows Server 2012 R2 , 6.2, build: 9200
windows dir: C:\Windows
Hardware: IBM System x3100 M4: 
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz Intel586, level: 6
8 logical processors, active mask: 255
RAM: 34313883648 total




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Crash Dump Analysis
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Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump

Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.

On Wed 28/1/2015 12:39:47 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\012915-57890-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: e1i63x64.sys (0xFFFFF80113B17A20) 
Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0xFFFFE000EB0BD048, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80113B17A20)
Error: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\e1i63x64.sys
product: Intel(R) Gigabit Adapter
company: Intel Corporation
description: Intel(R) Gigabit Adapter NDIS 6.x driver
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode driver attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. 
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: e1i63x64.sys (Intel(R) Gigabit Adapter NDIS 6.x driver, Intel Corporation). 
Google query: Intel Corporation DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL



On Wed 28/1/2015 12:39:47 PM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: e1i63x64.sys (e1i63x64+0x4FA20) 
Bugcheck code: 0xD1 (0xFFFFE000EB0BD048, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80113B17A20)
Error: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\e1i63x64.sys
product: Intel(R) Gigabit Adapter
company: Intel Corporation
description: Intel(R) Gigabit Adapter NDIS 6.x driver
Bug check description: This indicates that a kernel-mode driver attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. 
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: e1i63x64.sys (Intel(R) Gigabit Adapter NDIS 6.x driver, Intel Corporation). 
Google query: Intel Corporation DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Hi every one!

Who has experience in using Veeam backup?

I've read their datacheet and I actuall stuck.

We have two hypervizors and one old,slow file server. I'm thinking about failover and backups for Hypervizors, and read about Veeam .

Most features that they introduce are already in Hyper-V, like Backups on-the-fly, File Explorer, thus it can't be atomated like Hyper-V backups via powershell.

I can't find out what's the purpose of using Veeam Backup, can anyone help?