We are considering imaging our current 2008R2 HP server with NovaBackup Business Essentials. This will allow us to restore to different hardware in case the primary server goes down for an extended time.

- are there issues with this?

- will 2008/r2 run on different hardware once the device drivers are installed?

we hope to get away from purchasing a 2nd Windows Server 2008R2 and CALs just to have it sit there.

Thanks.

We have a Windows 2012 standard server, and once we renamed the server, we started getting the following VSS errors - 8193, 22, and 12292.  How can I fix this?  The errors are listed below.  Thanks in advance!

Error 8193 - Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance.  hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered

Error 22 - Volume Shadow Copy Service error: A critical component required by the Volume Shadow Copy service is not registered. This might happened if an error occurred during Windows setup or during installation of a Shadow Copy provider. The error returned from CoCreateInstance on class with CLSID {e579ab5f-1cc4-44b4-bed9-de0991ff0623} and Name IVssCoordinatorEx2 is [0x80040154, Class not registered

Hello. I have a client with a SBS 2011 server who has been using Windows backup to back up to an external USB disk. They've probably done a couple dozen successful restores in the past two years. Today we tried to restore files but the only backup listed is yesterday's. The GUI shows successful backups from the past week (and one failure). But Status -> All Backups -> View Details shows yesterday's successful backup, then jumps to last summer. I've tried to restore using the 'backup stored on another location' option and browsed to the backup disk with the same result. The external disk is 2 TB with about 75% free space and has been the backup target since last summer. Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space on the external USB disk is UNBOUNDED. Why does the backup show successful backups that cannot be restored?

Thanks.

Keith

Hello,

I have been doing a full system backup on a SBS 2011 using the Windows 2008R2 backup and the backups show complete. Today I went to look for a file in a redirected folder and the restore is blank. Apparently due to permissions. My questions are:

1. Why does Windows backup Show completed and give a false sense of security if it's skipping the redirected folders instead of displaying a directory not accessible error?

2. Does Backup run under LocalSystem, Administrator, the user that created the backup? Who do I have to grant access to user's desktop and Documents so that backup will back them up?

3. If the backups run under SYSTEM and the files have been backed up, how do I recover a file from a user's desktop folder?

Miguel Fra | Falcon IT Services, Miami, FL
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Hi good people.

I have installed Hyper-V cluster using this scheme:

1 server - domain controller Windows Server 2012 Standard (Not R2) name DC

2 server - shared SMB3 storage Windows Server 2012 Standard (Not R2) name ST

3 server - backup server Windows Server 2012 Standard (Not R2) name BK

4 virtualization node 1 - Free Hyper-V 2012 server name HV1

5 virtualization node 2 - Free Hyper-V 2012 server name HV2

Shared storage ST has 2 shares: \\st\Quorum and \\st\Storage

Quorum is quorum share for cluster consistency and Storage for virtual machines.

On storage server installed File Server and VSS for file share agent roles. Shadow copy is enabled for hard disk with shares.

Cluster works perfect.

I want to implement backup solution for virtual machines in our cluster (altaro, veeam, dpm 2012 sp1 etc) but cant get VSS to work.

When I tried to use diskshadow to create backup from hyper-v node - I always get errors.

I have investigated the problem and found that the key is in Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider.

Actually there is no Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider on Free Hyper-V 2012 server. Not in clear installation not after update, even not after hyper-v cluster creation. I think this is some bug, because this vss provider is installed by default in every other windows 2012 server version - standard, datacenter, foundation ...

I can't find info how to add Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider to Hyper-V 2012, and I have copied binary fssprov.dll from windows server 2012 standard to hyper-v 2012 into c:\windows\system32 and then added appropriate registry keys from server 2012 standard:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}]
@="VsFileShareProvider Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}\InprocServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,66,00,73,00,\
  73,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,76,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Free"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}]
@="VsFileShareProvider Class"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}\InprocServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,66,00,73,00,\
  73,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,76,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Free"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}]
@="Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider"
"VersionId"="{00000001-0000-0000-0001-000000000001}"
"Version"="1.0.0.1"
"Type"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}\CLSID]
@="{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}]
@="Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider"
"VersionId"="{00000001-0000-0000-0001-000000000001}"
"Version"="1.0.0.1"
"Type"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}\CLSID]
@="{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}]
@="Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider"
"VersionId"="{00000001-0000-0000-0001-000000000001}"
"Version"="1.0.0.1"
"Type"=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS\Providers\{89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0f2}\CLSID]
@="{FCE59DA7-7BAC-40DA-8D21-3E7311BA51CD}"

Now I have Microsoft File Share Shadow Copy provider on Hyper-V 2012 nodes and diskshadow even tried to use it, but I always get errors from Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer (sorry I have Russian versions of Hyper-V):

C:\Users\vadm>diskshadow
Microsoft DiskShadow, версия 1.0
(C) Корпорация Майкрософт (Microsoft Corporation), 2012
На компьютере: HV2, 29.08.2014 13:33:07

DISKSHADOW> set verbose on

DISKSHADOW> Writer Verify {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}

DISKSHADOW> Set Context Persistent

DISKSHADOW> Set MetaData vm.cab

DISKSHADOW> Begin Backup

DISKSHADOW> Add Volume \\st\storage provider {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0
f2}

DISKSHADOW> Create

...

       Компонент "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" не найден в списке компонентов м
одуля записи. Архивация прекращается...
       Проверьте синтаксис имени компонента.

In English it will be: The component "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer" was not found in the writer components list

DISKSHADOW> exit

C:\Users\vadm>diskshadow
Microsoft DiskShadow, версия 1.0
(C) Корпорация Майкрософт (Microsoft Corporation), 2012
На компьютере: HV2, 29.08.2014 13:33:43

DISKSHADOW> set verbose on

DISKSHADOW> Set Context Persistent

DISKSHADOW> Set MetaData vm.cab

DISKSHADOW> Begin Backup

DISKSHADOW> Add Volume \\st\storage

DISKSHADOW> Create

...

* Включение модуля записи "Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer":
        + Добавление компонента: \699919D1-1A99-4C7E-83EF-68A8A6082479

Сбой последней операции.
        - Возвращенный HRESULT: 80070057
        - Текст ошибки: E_INVALIDARG

In event log on hv2 I got event id 12294 from VSS: vss provider {89300202-3cec-4981-9171-19f59559e0
f2} returned error E_INVALIDARG.

Data: PreFinalCommitSnapshots({fb4bce54-9ba4-4b5f-80a0-3772bd42cd23}, 1).

Operation: async

Current state: DoSnapshotState

And no errors on storage server.

Installation KB2870270 not helped.

I can't solve my problem alone. Need your help. Thx.

Dear All

We are taking daily full backup exchange server 2010 by using windows backup .now a days we are experiencing issue with backup.

Am getting Event ID:517 

The backup operation that started at '‎2014‎-‎08‎-‎25T17:30:19.063322200Z' has failed with following error code '2155348299' (There was a failure in creating a directory on the backup storage location.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

After this error 

my exchange server backup tools are stable and 

i done reconfiguration my backup and remounted all databases.

restarted Microsoft exchange replication service.

That day backup completed with successfully but again next day i got same error.

Please do the needful guys.

Parthiban selvaraj

Hi - it seems my scheduled Windows Server 2012 backups are failing right after they attempt to compact the Hyper-V virtual hard drives.  Not quite sure how to fix this.  Below is the detail from the Event Viewer.

System

  - Provider

   [ Name]  Microsoft-Windows-Backup
   [ Guid]  {1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}
 
   EventID 5
 
   Version 3
 
   Level 2
 
   Task 0
 
   Opcode 0
 
   Keywords 0x4000000000000000
 
  - TimeCreated

   [ SystemTime]  2014-08-14T21:08:43.518231100Z
 
   EventRecordID 1233
 
   Correlation
 
  - Execution

   [ ProcessID]  5284
   [ ThreadID]  20872
 
   Channel Microsoft-Windows-Backup
 
   Computer SERVER.MILES.local
 
  - Security

   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18
 

- EventData

  BackupTemplateID {71DC6B4F-BD59-4863-8C36-3B201AC70949}
  HRESULT 0x80780034
  DetailedHRESULT 0x80042316
  ErrorMessage %%2155348020
  BackupState 12
  BackupTime 2014-08-14T17:01:59.685184500Z
  BackupTarget SERVER 2014_05_21 18:55 DISK_02
  NumOfVolumes 3
  VolumesInfo <VolumeInfo><VolumeInfoItem Name="System Reserved" OriginalAccessPath="" State="14" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="10" DataTransferred="280297472" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="280297472" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="554" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="C:" OriginalAccessPath="C:" State="14" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="1" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="10" DataTransferred="68738285568" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="68738285568" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="5672" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /><VolumeInfoItem Name="G:" OriginalAccessPath="G:" State="14" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" PreviousState="9" IsCritical="1" IsIncremental="0" BlockLevel="1" HasFiles="0" HasSystemState="1" IsCompacted="0" IsPruned="0" IsRecreateVhd="0" FullBackupReason="10" DataTransferred="16498622464" NumUnreadableBytes="0" TotalSize="16498622464" TotalNoOfFiles="0" Flags="552" BackupTypeDetermined="1" SSBTotalNoOfFiles="0" SSBTotalSizeOnDisk="0" /></VolumeInfo>
  SourceSnapStartTime 2014-08-14T17:00:36.735747800Z
  SourceSnapEndTime 2014-08-14T17:14:53.037571000Z
  PrepareBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:15:42.272Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:24.783Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:10:08.715Z" /></TimesList>
  PrepareBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:15:42.276Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:25.274Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:10:09.741Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupWriteStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:15:42.276Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:25.275Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:10:09.742Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupWriteEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="2014-08-14T17:16:19.774Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:09:59.353Z" /><Time Time="2014-08-14T18:15:19.979Z" /></TimesList>
  TargetSnapStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  TargetSnapEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  DVDFormatStartTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  DVDFormatEndTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  MediaVerifyStartTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  MediaVerifyEndTime <TimesList></TimesList>
  BackupPreviousState 11
  ComponentStatus <ComponentStatus></ComponentStatus>
  ComponentInfo <ComponentInfo><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{571e1902-54ea-4e30-a70f-3509afe662c4}" Name="475BC88D-51AF-41CB-8208-5DEDB7872C1C" LogicalPath="" Caption="Online\Windows 7 x64 - UTORRENT" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="31705873584" DataTransferred="31705873584" TotalNoOfFiles="9" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{571e1902-54ea-4e30-a70f-3509afe662c4}" Name="4FE1D1C4-A0F9-48C7-B599-B48D74525AF5" LogicalPath="" Caption="Online\Windows 7 x64 - PMS" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="46710997388" DataTransferred="46710997388" TotalNoOfFiles="9" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{571e1902-54ea-4e30-a70f-3509afe662c4}" Name="Host Component" LogicalPath="" Caption="Host Component" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="50335" DataTransferred="0" TotalNoOfFiles="0" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{38dd85a5-a801-44af-bfbc-5889b259a03b}" Name="7D41B44D-40D2-4286-B5E7-2EA1DB17A415" LogicalPath="" Caption="Online\Test Image" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="31101893420" DataTransferred="31101893420" TotalNoOfFiles="9" /><ComponentInfoItem WriterId="{66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}" InstanceId="{c3c989f2-399a-4eb2-ac67-c4e49a4a6701}" Name="FD039621-366F-4360-B430-11559DCC6B68" LogicalPath="" Caption="Offline\Acosta Laptop" AppName="HyperV" hResult="0" hDetailedResult="0" IsFullBackup="1" FullBackupReason="0" Size="178788579624" DataTransferred="178788579624" TotalNoOfFiles="10" /></ComponentInfo>
  SSBEnumerateStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBEnumerateEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBVhdCreationStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBVhdCreationEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBBackupStartTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SSBBackupEndTime 1601-01-01T00:00:00.000000000Z
  SystemStateBackup <SystemState IsPresent="1" HResult="-2139619299" DetailedHResult="-2147212522" />
  BMR <BMR IsPresent="1" HResult="0" DetailedHResult="0" />
  VssFullBackup false
  UserInputBMR true
  UserInputSSB true
  BackupSuccessLogPath C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-14-08-2014_17-01-59.log
  BackupFailureLogPath C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-14-08-2014_17-01-59.log
  EnumerateBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  EnumerateBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  PruneBackupStartTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  PruneBackupEndTime <TimesList><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /><Time Time="1601-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" /></TimesList>
  BackupFlags 0x9
  ComponentInfoSummary <ComponentInfoSummary ComponentInfoArrayPresent="1" TotalComponents="5" SucceededComponents="5" />

Hi

I have one windows server 2008 named Server A

I have taken the backup of c drive including system state , efi partition to D drive of the same server A and after that found that D drive of the same server A has few program files and other folders in it.

So I have taken the backup of the D drive including the backup of the c drive to another  shared folder in Server B.

(Here, I cannot take the Full backup of the Server A to the Server B due to the space issue in Server B)

In situation when i need to restore the Server A , what will be the restoring procedure?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks & Regards S.Swaminathan Live & let others live!!!

Hi, When i Insert LTO - 4 Ultrium RW data cartridge below error i am getting...

Windows 2003 server .Thank you

I have a server running Windows 2012 R2.  Since the installation of Windows 2012 R2 Update 1 (KB2919355), the VSS System Writer is missing.  When using "vssadmin list writers" from command prompt, the following error is displayed in the event log:

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

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2
Date:          28/08/2014 21:35:28
Event ID:      513
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Server-RDS.domain.local
Description:
Cryptographic Services failed while processing the OnIdentity() call in the System Writer Object.

Details:
AddCoreCsiFiles : RtlConvertNtFilePathToWin32Path() failed.

System Error:
0xC0000039 (unresolvable).

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

The server is not able to take a VSS snapshot during a backup which is a cause for concern.  Most forums suggest resetting permissions on the %windir%\winsxs\filemaps\ directory, which I have tried but does not resolve the issue.  I restored the server to the point before Update 1 was installed and the system writer was present, however as soon as Windows 2012 R2 Update 1 was installed, the writer no longer exists.  The only difference to this server compared to other Windows 2012 R2 servers which I have deployed (and Update 1 has installed no problems with no VSS writer issues), is that the user profiles have been moved to a different volume.  I suspect this is a permissions problems and although I have tried running the Sysinternals Process Monitor, I cannot see any permission problems when the VSS writers are called.

Does anyone have any suggestions.  Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Recently setup a brand new 2012 R2 server, using hyper v to host 3 VM's, backing up with backup exec 2014.The backups are failing, backup exec stating...

V-79-40960-38521 - Snapshot Technology: Initialization failure on: "VRTSRV::\\UKBNHV01.ProCam.local\Hyper-V?Virtual?Machine\UKBNDC01". Snapshot technology used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).A virtual machine snapshot could not be created. Use the Event Viewer on the Hyper-V host to identify the cause. If the virtual machine is not properly configured, it may be necessary to use the Event Viewer in the virtual machine to identify the cause.

Looking at the Hyper V VMMS event viewer I get the error:

VSS writers inside virtual machine 'UKBNIT01' failed to perform BackupComplete to its shadow copy (VSS snapshot) set: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). (Virtual machine ID 7C31CD39-FFAD-4E04-BF92-223BC120BE1B) event ID 10172

I see there are other posts relating to this, with random answers suggesting fixes relating to disk speeds and all sorts. If i restart the hyper v's and physical server the backup will run maybe 2 or 3 times successfully before failing again. Clearly buying a server to restart it every 2 days isn't an option.

It seems apparent this isn't just a problem relating to server 2012 R2, but has carried across in all newer versions of windows server.

My Vss Writers list as follows:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2013 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: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {89a328b7-87eb-48e2-a3e6-9d04b164ba32}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
   Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
   Writer Instance Id: {baa1e068-a50f-4d2e-898c-a54920ae4117}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: Retryable error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {4986e692-ea2c-454e-813e-9e5f71854adf}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {f7f18f2b-660b-4e18-9aa1-5caa5115045e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'ASR Writer'
   Writer Id: {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
   Writer Instance Id: {bfa584a7-72b3-47c1-90d7-87e71074e875}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer'
   Writer Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Instance Id: {954a91e4-8c93-4f21-9ceb-53f2df3fefc5}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {a254fab5-d160-4a2d-9f8f-e43e7ea0708e}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {d01d076a-aa1b-4998-8a5b-91b993895405}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {1e7cb515-f73d-4146-838d-74605a77628c}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Is anyone able to explain how to trace why the Hyper-V VSS Writer gets the retryable error?

Thanks

Nick

Hi,

     i have running windows server backup 2008 r2 to external drive since from 2012.  the functionality is good and normal.

but last 3 days back i have cleared some GB of data from the backup folder list then backup ran successfully.

after that i am trying to restore some data of previous dates i couldn't see older backup date of present hard disk on recover wizard.but i can see the older backup dates of previous hard disk.

Further more i found the log on the windows for the recent dates.but i can't see older backup dates in recover wizard.

Please any one help on this if you have any solution for this.

I have a fresh install of Windows Server 2012 R2 on an IBM x3530 M4 server.  I'm trying to do a full bare metal backup to a local volume, which is presented from a SAN.

The backup fails stating that there isn't enough disk space.  This is very misleading as the OS on the C:\ is only taking up 15GB and the free Space on the SAN volume is 800GB.

From doing a little reading online i have found others who have had problems backing up Recovery Partitions, click here.  So i just did a backup of the C:\ to the same SAN volume and that works fine so i have a feeling this is something to do with the Recovery Partition.  I also have a partition which is called the EFI System Partition which i'm unsure what this is.  Below is a screen grab of the Disk Management on the system.  Can someone give me a way to do a full Bare Metal backup without having to reinstall the whole OS.  Thanks

The Windows Server Backup page on TechNet says "You can use Windows Server Backup to create and manage backups for the local computer or a remote computer." 

I've looked all through the fairly spartan backup options on Windows Server 2012 and I cannot find any way to backup or manage backups of a remote server. Can someone shed some light on this? Is it possible to backup a remote server, or even manage the backups on a remote server from the Windows Server Backup interface?

I'm looking at the possibility of ditching BackUp Exec 10d(!) in favor of Windows Server Backup, since we don't need anything special.

Hi folks,

We are running into issues when attempting to configure a Windows Backup schedule through either running the Backup Schedule wizard or through using the wbadmin utility. While I have previously posted this issue on a separate forum (with no luck) I’ve restructured this description based on the responses received and am also hoping that this a more suitable forum for the problem we are experiencing.

On running the backup wizard the backup configuration screen shows the backup size to be 0KB for the Full Server option or if I choose ‘Custom’ and go to ‘select backup items’ the volume list is empty. However the later ‘select destination disk’ screen of the wizard lists all of the disks attached to the server along with the associated volume letters (via clicking the ‘Show All Available Disks’ option).

On the backup wizard reaching the summary stage it then proceeds to format the destination disk. On completion of this format the wizard status then changes to ‘Creating backup schedule’ at which point it then fails with the message “The specified number of volumes is invalid”.

Equally running the following wbadmin command:

wbadmin ENABLE BACKUP -addtarget:{81737a1c-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} -schedule:21:00 -include:c:

Results in the following error:

“ERROR - One of the source volumes specified cannot be included: c: Please specify source as a volume drive letter or access path (if volume is mounted in a folder). Only volumes on locally attached disks can be backed up.”

The server is a Dell PowerEdge R620 running Windows server 2008SP2 and is operating as expected other than for this windows back issue. Everything appears as normal when I view the disks within the Disk Management Console. Backups used to run on this server fine before it was migrated from old hardware to new hardware using Doubletake Move. Everything else is running fine since the migration apart from Windows backup so not why it would only be effecting Windows backup. I have also ran the wbadmin ‘delete catalog’ command to remove reference to the previous backups that were taken.

Is there any other tests that I can run to determine why Windows backup is having trouble seeing the available volumes at the 'Select Backup items' stage but not at the Select Destination' stage? Any help or pointers in the right direction would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Niall