Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
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Windows Server Backup: Deduplication and Bit Locker
Hi, If my volumes are both Deduped and with Bit Locker on, can I do Windows Server Backup, or do I have to first do something about any of those? In Azure backup, bitlockered vols are not supported, do not know about Dedup in Azure... Thanks
asked 2020-12-04T16:56:43.66+00:00
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InfoTechdude
156
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answered 2020-12-30T16:41:15.427+00:00
InfoTechdude
156
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VSS error impossible to backup Windows server 2016
Hi all, I have a problem with a production server with windows 2016 standard. VSS are not working and backup is not working anymore. I use Macrium Reflect for backup from 3 years without problem but now it fails to backup disk D, and backup works…
asked 2020-11-29T13:20:20.247+00:00
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Webcloudit
21
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answered 2020-12-24T12:26:10.477+00:00
Webcloudit
21
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Restore the SysVol Folder from Windows Server Backup
Dear All, We have DC with Win2012 Std, ADC with Win2012Std & ADC1 with 2008R2 Std, unfortunately our environment have Ransomware Attached recently due to this our SysVol Folder &Files has been encrypted. We want to recover our SysVol Folders…
asked 2020-12-13T08:28:36.76+00:00
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M Akhtar
1
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commented 2020-12-18T01:23:46.973+00:00
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Hannah Xiong
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Windows Server Essentials 16 external backup drive erased when 55% full
I have a 8 Tb external drive for backing up Windows Server Essentials 2016 locally. Server does not have much data on it. When external drive was 80% full, server erased it and restarted backups fresh even though the drive was only growing 1% per day. …
asked 2020-12-15T06:44:23.433+00:00
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Arthur Begun
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commented 2020-12-15T21:45:41.92+00:00
Arthur Begun
1
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Windows Backup Failing with error code GetDiskComponents 0x80042302
Hello All, One of our customer facing below error while executing "vssadmin list writers" command: Log Name: Application Source: VSS Event ID: 8193 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Description: …
asked 2020-12-11T11:01:50.087+00:00
Rahul Sharma
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answered 2020-12-15T09:29:43.617+00:00
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Mico Mi
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wbengine with 0x800423f3, looking for wbdiag.exe
I'm searching for wbdiag.exe for Windows Server 2008 R2. The published links to Skydrive (OneDrive) are dead. Is there an alternative download available? I've trouble with Windows Server Backup and the Volume Shadow Services (VSS). Often it terminate…
asked 2020-12-01T13:25:44.727+00:00
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Martin Hoffmann-Vetter
1
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commented 2020-12-11T01:48:40.847+00:00
Xiaowei He
9,876
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Log Shipment failure for data above 5GB.
We have a Log Shipping Setup having 2 instances of : Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard with MS SQL server 2014 We have MS SQL EKM installed on both the servers with TDE enabled on them. Both the setups are connected to same Key…
asked 2020-12-02T06:43:28.113+00:00
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GUPTA Deepika
1
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answered 2020-12-07T09:08:30.047+00:00
Mico Mi
1,921
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2 answers
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Windows Server Backup fail
Dear All, I am trying to take one of the server standard 2016, windows server backup on the network share drive. but i am getting error " the specified file path does not exist or is not on a locally attached disk". I have full rights on…
asked 2020-12-06T08:13:31.607+00:00
Aziz Husain
191
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accepted 2020-12-07T08:29:57.977+00:00
Aziz Husain
191
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Client backup error with 2016 Windows Server Essentials.
I'm getting incomplete backups on one of my client laptops. When I try to see which volume failed I get this, Here is what that client disk management looks like. I can't figure out which one is offline. I tried to disable the backup and recreate…
asked 2020-11-24T21:34:04.293+00:00
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LeoG71
21
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answered 2020-11-25T06:37:04.49+00:00
Karlie Weng
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Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 - Full Backup
I have been tasked with doing an in-place upgrade of a slew of physical production Server 2008 R2 servers to Server 2012 R2. I have a single test server with 2008 R2 that has the required apps installed. When I attempted the upgrade a week ago, .NET…
asked 2020-11-23T16:23:51.493+00:00
Matt Dillon
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commented 2020-11-23T16:40:01.577+00:00
Leon Laude
85,716
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Windows server backup - mount backup
Hi, a problem with a server, before completing the backup of the Windows server. in the restoration, only the C: \ drive appears, the F: \ drive is not shown, because it was not completed, but I saw in the logs that it contains information about the…
asked 2020-11-17T13:43:00.247+00:00
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Alex Silva
1
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answered 2020-11-18T06:49:40.423+00:00
Xiaowei He
9,876
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Windows server backup
Dear team, I have tested to restore backup in windows server backup, we have using different servers with model 2012, 2008. and 2016 but when i tried to restore backup from 2016 it only getting last 45 days to recover back, but in 2012 and 2008 it…
asked 2020-11-03T13:08:26.093+00:00
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Shafeer Shafeer
1
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commented 2020-11-17T08:04:48.313+00:00
Xiaowei He
9,876
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Not able to restore a Hyper-V VM which was backed up using wbadmin command.
Hi, I am not able to restore a Hyper-V VM which was backed up using the wbadmin command (windows server 2016). the machine was backed up on a network drive, and now i want to restore it on a different location. I have tried the "wbadmine start…
asked 2020-11-03T20:33:18.997+00:00
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Fouad Khairalla
1
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commented 2020-11-17T01:44:43.453+00:00
Xiaowei He
9,876
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Drive not found when restoring client from Windows Server 2016 Essentials Restore
I have a Windows Server 2016 with the Essentials role installed. I use the built in client computer backup function from the server essentials dashboard to backup client computers. I have a Dell client computer with one of their Opal M.2 SSD drives. …
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'Microsoft Exchange Writer showing unstable
Need help for following, In our environment, we have 2 exchange mailbox server 2016. we are using Veritas NetBackup as Backup Solution. in exchange node 1 out of 2 facing issue 'Microsoft Exchange Writer showing unstable. Is there any idea? …
asked 2020-10-29T07:15:02.787+00:00
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Nur Hossain
282
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commented 2020-11-11T08:36:34.213+00:00
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Yuki Sun-MSFT
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Windows Server 2012 Recovery from network location
Good Day 1 Some time ago I backed up Windows server 2012 to remote folder in NAS over LAN. This computer broke down and I need to use different PC also with Win Server 2012. When I try to restore old backup I receive error "The specified…
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lock VM during migration ?
Hi, Is there a way to lock the virtual machine so that it does not get migrated during the backup. Any WMI or VHD call ? Appreciate your help. -Balu
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Restore Backup files from client to Server share
Hi, I've got a question that is asked of me in a course I am studying, and I can't figure it out. I've backed up a folder from a client to a network share on a file server ( Server 2016 ). I am asked to restore this to the file server. How do I do…
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Win 2016 WSE Client Backup missing Portable Base Layer
One of my win 10 clients has recently (since September) start failing the backup with the Portable Base Layer 'drive' being unsuccessful. All the other win 10 clients are being successfully backed up (including the Portable Base Layer) and I can…
asked 2020-10-19T19:46:29.573+00:00
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Cayman Dwain
96
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answered 2020-10-24T16:31:36.577+00:00
Cayman Dwain
96
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Exchange Server 2013 - Restore took 20 hours - how can we speed up that process ?
Dear Exchange Pros. We made a full restore of our Exchange Server 2013 virtual machine to be sure that restore works before we install Cumulative Update 23. Restore of complete VM took 20 hours ! The System Disk C: is 30GB of data, the Mailbox…
asked 2020-10-14T09:36:53.207+00:00
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IT Guy
106
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commented 2020-10-20T02:51:03.273+00:00
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Kael Yao-MSFT
37,591
Reputation points Microsoft Vendor