Some backups complete successfully, others finish with warnings. Double-clicking the job in Windows Backup on successful jobs opens the logs. Doing the same on SOME jobs that failed display the following error: FX: {811FD892-5EB4-4E73-A147-F1E079E36C4E} Object reference not set to an instance of an object. System.NullReferenceException. We have ran SFC /Scannow, but the error continues. What is Microsoft's response to this?
Louis Stice
Hello
We have a Windows Server 2012 machine that runs a VSS full backup daily using Windows Server Backup to a dedicated partition.
It's been running fine for close to 2 years now and was automatically clearing old backups when space was needed.
We used to have about 250 backups available but for some reason even though there was space available it deleted all of them about 3 weeks ago.
I now have about 15 backups available and again even though there is enough free space it doesn't seem to retain all the backups it should.
I can't find anything useful in the logs and as far as I understand it there is no way for me to specify the backup retention period.
I would appreciate any help you can give me in troubleshooting this issue.
Thank you
hi,
We have an issue with our Windows Server backup on our main server. It fails every evening and it shows the drives (5 drives for each day Mon-Fri) to be offline even though we can access the data and restore files/folder. We have tested another backup software with one of our drives and it ran successfully. The event log shows error event ID 561 and 546 "...the backup failed as no target could be found...", Windows/Backup/Operational, Event ID 19 & 49.
Any ideas what's causing this? As I said we ran successful backup using one of the drives and another software so I don't think its a hardware problem.
Please note we have tried many solutions found on the internet - with no luck.
Thanks in advance
K8
We have Windows server 2008R2 SP1 and Sharepoint 2010 web on it.
It's a real HP Proliant dl360 G7, and we have no 3rd party backup software, hyper-v or MSSQL services on it.
Backup doesn't work.
The error:
The backup operation stopped before completing.
Detailed error: ERROR - A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation error has
occurred: (0x800423f3)
The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried,
the error may not reoccur.
A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for more information.
ERROR - A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation error has
occurred: (0x800423f3)
The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried,
the error may not reoccur.
There is no vss or spp errors in app or system log with the exception of the failed backup job itself:
The backup operation that started at '2015-03-17T07:42:40.538000000Z' 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 '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
vssadmin list writers shows the following:
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: 'System Writer'
Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
Writer Instance Id: {0edb5d85-436b-4760-9356-761993b49b5a}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'SharePoint Services Writer'
Writer Id: {da452614-4858-5e53-a512-38aab25c61ad}
Writer Instance Id: {cc99d951-661c-4e4b-b3ca-1105c5967574}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
Writer Instance Id: {abb31773-56e9-492c-be01-9ed5a2cab3b5}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
Writer Instance Id: {59b0e1ef-2559-4aae-b939-c6625625ed59}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
Writer Instance Id: {13aa0463-dca7-4c47-80c3-2f08b8b006d7}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
Writer Instance Id: {94d43bc8-731a-46c5-b5a5-9fc2435746a7}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'IIS Config Writer'
Writer Id: {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
Writer Instance Id: {e575d46a-464d-4ecb-9133-fab76de67b6a}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'OSearch14 VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {0ff1ce14-0201-0000-0000-000000000000}
Writer Instance Id: {af51423e-51d3-47c1-9933-3ab1a0df276c}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error
Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
Writer Instance Id: {526c9277-d072-4ee3-b5c7-50f13522a38d}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
Writer Instance Id: {5e773ca3-7210-479e-b22a-067ad7e1696d}
State: [9] Failed
Last error: Timed out
Permissions modification like in
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7309.backup-fails-with-error-message-writer-missing-or-failed-or-timed-out-or-waiting-for-completion-in-vssadmin.aspx
did not helped.
Modifications of MinDiffAreaFileSize - did not helped.
Hi Team,
I have to migrate my Windows server from 2003 to 2008 on which VB/VC++ components are installed. Please tell me if there will be any compatibility issue if I do Windows server 2003 to 2008 upgradation and what all will be required for that upgradtion.
What is the solution to get past this Windows Server Backup (WSB) failure and error 2155348010? What is the correct process to have WSB use a 3TB external drive with 4096 sector size as the destination drive?
I am using a Western Digital (WD) Red 3TB drive in a usb 3.0 docking station as the WSB destination disk with the recommended destination setting (which appears to setup fine, but the schedule job fails after 385gb, so something worked).
The similar job works fine with WD Red 1TB drive, so it must be the 4096 sector size vs 512 size difference and VHD. I know there has been work done with 2012 to use 4096 sector size drives, but is this available in WSB with vhdx? Can vhdx be used instead of vhd with Windows Server 2012 Backup, and how to do it?
WD has a Quick Format tool which may work to emulate 512 sector size, but WSB reformats a new disk, so how to use the WD tool with WSB accepting the WD formatting?
There is a lengthy discussion at the following post (immediately scroll to the end), but not specific to Windows Server 2012. What is the MS recommendation for version 2012?
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We're trying to backup a clustered file server running W2008R2 with FC attached SAN volumes. After every volume DPM backups the server goes into a BSOD. Debugging shows me:
BugCheck 1000007E, {ffffffffc0000005, fffff80001c90b10, fffff880023b4e28, fffff880023b4680}
Probably caused by : volsnap.sys ( volsnap!VspQueryNtfsFreeSpaceBitmap+2fb )
Googling around tells me it's not supporting volumes larger than 64TB (none of ours are larger than 10TB).
Anyone got any ideas?! I've crashed the file server 6 times the last 12 hours and reaaaally don't want them to crash anymore :)
volsnap.sys is now at v6.1.7601.21854 after I tried to apply a hotfix that seemed to be related. (KB2627052)
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This might be the wrong forum for this - but it's only happening now when we've introduced DPM to the system.
Hi,
We're attempting to back up parts of a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation running under a virtual machine (*). We've tried using the Windows Server Backup that comes as standard with 2008 R2, but haven't been able to get it to work.
Accessing the server via Remote Desktop, I attempt to back up a folder onto one of my local drives (showing as a network share on that machine) but get "Backup failed to complete" and "The requested operation could
not be completed due to a file system limitation". (The share is writable via the server, as I can create and edit a new text file there).
The Event Log isn't much more informative:-
The backup operation that started at '2015-05-18T10:44:13.093750000Z' has failed with following error code '2155348041' (None of the source volumes were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Any hints as to what might be going wrong here would be appreciated- thank you!
- MM
(*) Which I believe uses a QEMU/KVM setup, though this was set up by our web host and not ourselves.
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Request not run because of input output error.
Event in logs:
The task end with the following error code: "0x807800C5" (By preparation of an archival image of one of volumes in a set of archiving there was a failure.).
I cannot get the server to backup my Lenovo Thinkpad 10 running Windows 8.1. pro 64
The thinkpad client is a 128Gb SSD top spec tablet and is running the Launchpad program.
See error message below
"This computer was not successfully backed up"
I have read all the help forums and the best I can come up with is something to do with hdd driver
help please
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i want to restore my windows sbs2003 .bkf file to 2012 std server, as per default utility in 2012 server i couldn't find restore of .bkf file.
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Hi ...
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One of these limitation is using VAEEM. they backup VMs in crash-consistent state which mean simply an image can be compared to the state of a VM that has been manually reset. Unlike offline backup, I don't know if this is O.k with Microsoft SQL server backup
I would like to hear from Microsoft as shared VHDX is a MS technology.I know for domains that aren't at domain functional level 2012 you cannot recover from snapshots due to problems with USN rollbacks. With 2012 and newer hypervisor technologies that has been fixed.
We are looking at some different backup technologies that use VMware snapshots as part of their solution (Veeam and Unitrends to be precise). I want to make sure that I understand something correctly. Snapshots are a problem with Domain Controllers, but if the backup technology is VSS-aware, the USN rollback issues are taken care of. A more generalized statement would be: using snapshots on a DC is okay as long as the application taking the snapshot is VSS-aware. Is that a correct statement?
We are just upgrading from Server 2003 where we used ntbackup. As we have <75mb of data to backup I created a schedule to backup the data daily to a usb drive. Each days file was named to the day of the month, ie; Daily01-31 and the external drive was one of a set of 3 drives that were rotated monthly.
Is there a way to replicate this procedure in Server 2012?
I much prefer full, standalone backups to incremental backups.
Thanks
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