Hi there,

I am currently using robocopy to backup our satellite office file server across WAN to our main location. It works OK for the most part until it gets to pst files.

If pst files are changed (which they are on a daily basis), robocopy backs up the whole file instead of the changed parts. The problem is that these PST files are big (over 2gb in size) and the WAN connection isn't great.

Can anyone suggest perhaps another solution that backs only the changed parts INSIDE the pst files instead of the whole file. As far as i understand robocopy does not have that capability. Perhaps this is relevant to other file extensions also, not just PST.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Event ID 517, No Antivirus, If old WindowsImageBackup folder delete or rename then schedule backup working properly otherwise given below error.

The backup operation that started at '‎2019‎-‎10‎-‎17T07:08:00.337786100Z' has failed with following error code '0x80070020' (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Md. Ramin Hossain

Nikorios

Typically, When Windows server backup drive is formatted, it is formatted in such a way where it is hidden from explorer (and subsequently ransomware) but can be seen in Drive Management.

This has been the behavior of all the systems I use MS server backup on which are many.

However, I have one problem child windows server 2008 std system that doggedly applies Z: drive letter to the usb backup drive.

Can I turn this off? I have two drives I swap in daily and while I can remove the drive letter it is reapplied as soon as I plug the other drive in.

Hi,

In one of the Server 2008 SP2 system writer is missing. I have below troubleshoots but still issue is there.

1) Restarted the "Cryptographic services"

2) Registered the DLL files

3) Rebooted the server.

4) Applied access to the files in %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\

Can anyone suggest what needs to checked to fix the issue.

Thanks in advance.

vicky

I'm backing up some Windows Server 2019 using wbadmin to some Synology-NAS using SMB. Once in a while the logs created during those backups mention that one of the created VHDX files gets compressed/compacted. The server is using German language for these logs and those use a term which means "compressing" actually, so not sure which of both is really done, but I strongly guess it means "compacting".

Looking at the logs, that process is pretty fast for C:\ most likely, which only contains Windows itself and some installed applications. Most of the data is stored on D:\ instead and that data contains some databases, plain files available using network shares, a VM and stuff like that. So there's quite some amount of I/O on that volume.

Looking at the logs of the last time that was done for D:\, I recognized two interesting things: 1. that process took around an hour to succeed and 2. the logs start at 30 % and stopped at 69 %. I know that it took around an hour because without compressing/compacting the backup finishes mostly around 22:45 o'clock.

Von Volume "Daten(D:)" wird eine Sicherung erstellt. Kopiert: (100%).
Die virtuelle Festplatte für das Volume "Daten(D:)" wird komprimiert. Abgeschlossen: (30 %).
[...]
Die virtuelle Festplatte für das Volume "Daten(D:)" wird komprimiert. Abgeschlossen: (69 %).

Ende Datensicherung 13.11.2019 23:59:36,66

So what happens during that process, especially in case of storing to SMB?

From my understanding, one needs to first know which blocks of the VHDX are not used anymore. Because there's NTFS inside that image, I guess Windows simply knows that and doesn't need to scan the file in some expensive process? After knowing which blocks are not needed anymore, those can be freed to actually reduce the storage needed for the VHDX. If it would sit on NTFS itself, I guess this would be done by unallocating blocks from some sparse file or would it really write 0s to the not needed blocks? However, the VHDX is accessed using SMB with BTRFS underneath, so most likely doesn't know about any spare file. So it might move blocks from the end of the file to allocated, but free blocks and simply trims the file afterwards?

If large amounts of data really need to be copied, that would explain why the process takes pretty long and why 30 and 69 % are logged only, that being the copied range of data inside the VHDX maybe or even only copying the data itself and other operations before and after 30 and 69 % are pretty fast again.

Hi IT Experts,

1.  Past few days our domain users (not specific user) complaining about their account locked out if the system is idle for few mins. I verified all the GPO's but there is no such GPO created except "Account Lock Out" if more than 5 times wrong password, so was manually unlock the account and advising users to spell check before entering the password, surprisingly yesterday it happens to one of our IT Security Admin user who is already into Administrator group.  It was more surprise to us while working on the system tried to connect to the one of the server via RDP using the same logged in account and received the error saying account is locked. 

Now, I'm sure that our users may not be entering the wrong password but it is getting locked for unknown reason.  Kindly advice what could be the reason and solution? 

2.  As staked above, I have enabled Block Inherit Policy to the IT security Group / OU but still the account lock out policy affect and getting locked, pls. advice what additional steps to configure 

Thanks in advance.

  I have a customer with two Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V host servers running a wbadmin (Windows Backup).  The one server backs up just fine.  However, the other server consistently fails with the following error:

Detailed error: ERROR - The shared restore point operation failed with error (0x81000101) The creation of a shadow copy has timed out. Try this operation again.

   In the Event Viewer (Application log), I see the following error:

The backup operation that started at '‎2011‎-‎04‎-‎27T06:15:23.955000000Z' 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 '2155348001'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

   However I can't find any further error messages (in either the guest VM's event viewer or in the Hyper-V host's event viewer).  

   A few additional notes:

• Server has SP1 installed.  The problem with the backup predates the SP1 installation.
• Reboots don't fix the backup problem.
• After a failed backup, both the Hyper-V VSS writer and the System Writer have the following state in "vssadmin list writers": State: [5] Waiting for completion 
• I can't do a manual volume or file/folder backup of the drive which has VM's on it using wbadmin because the Volume Shadow fails.
• A "DELETE SHADOWS ALL" from DISKSHADOW didn't fix the problem.
• I was wondering if the problem was due to KB982210  (http://garysgambit.blogspot.com/2010/05/windows-2008-hyper-v-vss-backup-bug.html and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982210).  The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\STORAGE\Volume on this system does have a a lot of entries, and the initial logon to the host after a reboot does take a while.  But my Vhdmp.sys has a newer version than this hotfix so I'm assuming that the SP1 for Windows 2008 R2 replaced this file and my guess is that this hotfix won't work on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers.  

   Anyone with any good ideas?  [At this point I may even accept bad ones...]

Thanks! dbaddorf

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!

Hi all,

i have a fujitsu rx1330 server with Windows Server 2019 installed. The 2 gbit ports are connected to a switch. Network connection generally runs without any issues.

At 3:00 a.m i run a complete windows backup, with  all hdd's, all hyper-v VMs, baremetal.... to a iscsi mounted network drive.

For this Backup iam using the onboard windwos backup tool.

Within this backup i got every day a short network connection loss, that is a problem because one of the hyper-v VMs needs a permanent network connection 7x24.

I already updated the intel network adapter drivers to the newest version from July 2019 and VMQ i disabled.

Do you have any solution for this issue?

I wont use another commercial backup software for which i have to pay for it.

BR

I am getting an error from Backup Exec when trying to backup one of my Windows 2008 R2 Servers that indicates that I need to rebuild the usn change journal database. I looked up the commands for accomplishing this and just had a couple of questions about executing these. First: Are these the right sequence of commands to run? -->

fsutil usn deletejournal /d c:
fsutil usn createjournal m=1000 a=100 c:

Second: I am assuming the best time to run these would be right before a full backup?

So this is strange issue that started occurring about a month ago, and I have been unable to find any useful resources online. This may or may not be related, but this started happening very soon after we migrate our VM disks to a new datastore on a new storage device in vmware. I have managed to get at least one successful backup weekly, but this is after many failed attempts with the same errors.

I originally thought this was a Backup Exec issue but after spending hours on the phone with them they declared that this is a Microsoft issue since the same problem occurred using Windows Server Backup as well.

Here are the errors occurring. This typically happens during the System State Backup or during the C: drive backup.

Source: VSS Event ID: 8193 Level: Error Logged: 9/20/2017 9:25:20 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IMultiInterfaceEventControl::GetSubscriptions.  hr = 0x80010108, The object invoked has disconnected from its clients.
.

Source: VSS Event ID: 12291 Level: Error Logged: 9/20/2017 9:25:20 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error on creating/using the COM+ Writers publisher interface: BackupShutdown [0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error.
Check the Application event log for more information.
]. 

Source: VSS Event ID: 8193 Level: Error Logged: 9/20/2017 9:50:08 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine IVssAsync::QueryStatus.  hr = 0x800706ba, The RPC server is unavailable.
. 

Operation:
   BackupComplete Event
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: BackupComplete

Source: Backup Event ID: 517 Level: Error User: System

The backup operation that started at '‎2017‎-‎09‎-‎20T13:04:54.929785700Z' has failed with following error code '0x807800AF' (The Volume Shadow Copy Service backup complete operation failed. See the event logs for more details.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Has anyone ever seen or encountered these problems before? They are making backup up our server almost impossible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Hello,

How can we make sure the Azure VM Application consistent backup . We have few windows and Linux VMs with databases and we want to take application consistent backup to avoid any data corruption during backup/restore.

Is it possible ?

suhag

Hello,

When I try to run a system state backup with this command: wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:<drive letter>

I get the error

"Failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes.

ERROR - Volume Shadow Copy Service operation error (0x8004230f)
The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation."

I'm not sure how to fix this. I'm logged into the machine as an Administrator.

Windows Server Enterprise 2008 SP2 64-bit

Any suggestions??

Hi,

Here I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard server, using Netbackup software for the backup, which is a product of Symantec company.

The server roles as file server, problem now is the backup process always failed when processing on an EFI partition.

After consulted with the product vendor, they suggested to ask MS for help..

Here is the log:

- Type: VSS_CT_FILEGROUP [2]

- Is selectable: TRUE

- Is top level: TRUE

- Notify on backup complete: FALSE

- Paths affected by this component:

- \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot<file:///\\%3f\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot>

- Volumes affected by this component:

- \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot<file:///\\%3f\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\EFI\Microsoft\Boot> [Does not exist]

Here is the BCD info:

Please let me know if any other information you need to know.

Really thanks for any help.

Regards

John

I have one (Server 2012 R2) guest on Hyper-V in Server 2012 R2 host. System Reserved and C backup completes data transfer and all but Server(Online) fails to complete. 

"Failed to complete 0KB of 0KB"

WSB Error: The component Server2012(Online) was skipped during the snapshot and will not be available for recovery. Error: The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error may not occur.

Log file: 

Writer Failures
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Instance Id: {C1C2F8BB-2ACD-45C8-9B0E-D072A7B58F79}
Writer Name: Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer
Writer State: 5
Failure Result: 80042336
Application Result: 80004005
Application Message: (null)
   Component: EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0
   Logical Path: (null)
   Component Result: 800423F3
   Component Message: 
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\Server2012\Virtual Machines\Server2012\Virtual Machines\\EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0.xml Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\\C.vhdx Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\\data.vhdx Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\C-AutoRecovery.avhdx Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\Vorhoff2012\Virtual Machines\Server2012\Snapshots\FAE18FA3-3CE5-4E7A-AE13-691603A0B96A.xml Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\VHDX\data-AutoRecovery.avhdx Recursive: 0
*-----------------------------*


Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0
   Caption     : Online\Server2012
   Logical Path: 
   Error           : 80780175
   Error Message   : Component was skipped from volume shadow copy.

   Detailed Error  : 800423F3
   Detailed Error Message : The writer experienced a transient error.  If the backup process is retried,
the error may not reoccur.

Event Viewer:

Event 10178

Source: Hyper-V-VMMS

The description for Event ID 10178 from source Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS 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: 

Server2012
EBABEA20-1601-4521-855E-A286593543D0
%%2147943727
0x8007052F

The locale specific resource for the desired message is not present

Event 10172

Source: Hyper-V-VMMS

VSS writers inside virtual machine 'Server2012' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). (Virtual machine ID EBEBBA20-1601-4521-856E-A286493543B0)

Event 16010

Source: Hyper-V-VMMS

The operation failed.

VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS shows all "State: [1] Stable Last error: No error" besides:

Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'

   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}

   Writer Instance Id: {c1c2f8bb-2acd-45c8-9b0e-d072a7b58f79}

   State: [1] Stable

   Last error: Unexpected error

After running this script: http://www.nullskull.com/q/10115236/issue-with-windows-server-backup.aspx and turning VMMS service off and on, and then restart, backups appear to (or at least WSB says the Server2012(Online)) have completed BUT the data transferred says 0KB of 0KB! Then, the next backups say "failed" or "completed with warnings".

The question is: HOW DO I GET WSB TO WORK? 

Thanks in advance, everyone! I appreciate all replies very much.

I want to take backup but my device is shutting down again and again. 

Also, Can I host and move my website to microsoft's cloud service? 

My blog website is vashishthakapoor.com. I will move other sites to microsoft only because this service is very fast

im using Server 2012 R2 .....due to some reason i restored WINDOWS folder using server backup & Restore utility..after restoring the folder when i restart window and give credentials and then should windows desktops shows but Black screen shown....so now what should i do.. how to fix....i am student and its my first post in this portal ...