464 questions with Windows Server Backup tags

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WSE 2019 - Client and Server Backup has stopped, Service failing

I've come to the dashboard and found 2 critical error relating to backups. First is The Windows Server Essentials Computer Backup service is not running The second is This computer was not successfully backed up I've also found the last couple of…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-10-13T20:58:13.803+00:00
Cayman Dwain 96 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-17T20:04:33.927+00:00
Cayman Dwain 96 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Wbadmin start sysrecovery equivalent in Power Shell?

Hi, I'm trying to find out if there is Wbadmin start sysrecovery's equivalent in Power Shell? This is "specific" command since it "Performs a system recovery (bare metal recovery) " wbadmin start sysrecovery …

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.PowerShell: A family of Microsoft task automation and configuration management frameworks consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.
5,446 questions
asked 2020-10-03T13:06:06.787+00:00
InfoTechdude 156 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-16T15:25:44.437+00:00
InfoTechdude 156 Reputation points
4 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Error adding disk to backup set

Hi SBS 2011 standard. I am using option 3 from here https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2009365/error-message-when-you-try-to-add-an-additional-disk-to-a-scheduled-ba to add a disk to the backup set but I am getting an 'Incorrect function'…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-27T12:38:57.037+00:00
Y a h y a 416 Reputation points
accepted 2020-09-24T02:01:17.653+00:00
Y a h y a 416 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Restore Windows from different raid

I'd like to upgrade my server running Windows Server 2019 on a raid-5 with HDDs to a raid-1 with solid state drives. My plan was to save a full windows server backup to an external, remove HDDs and insert SSDs, and recover from the backup. Will this work…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-09-21T14:00:38.477+00:00
Rodney Burleyson 21 Reputation points
answered 2020-09-21T16:03:45.603+00:00
Rodney Burleyson 21 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can BMR(using Windows Server 2016 WSB) create a system drive without DPM

Small Company with a single server, Dell PowerEdge T330 with Microsoft Sever 2016. Only use is "File and Storage Services", "Print Services". and "Remote Desktop Services". Suddenly, system will no longer perform a BMR…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-09-05T13:34:51.847+00:00
Donald Loewen 41 Reputation points
accepted 2020-09-12T20:40:59.287+00:00
Donald Loewen 41 Reputation points
1 answer

VHD query attachVirtualDisk

Hi, if we use the ATTACH_VIRTUAL_DISK_FLAG_NO_LOCAL_HOST flag, where do the VM disks get attached. Suppose i have created a snapshot and use the base disk for the openVirtualDisk() function. Now if i call in the AttachVirualDisk(...) with the flags…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,610 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-25T12:17:28.417+00:00
balu T 41 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-01T18:18:01.497+00:00
balu T 41 Reputation points
1 answer

Windows Server Backup (Server 2016 Essentials) - All VSS writers failing

Hi, I have been noticing some errors on the Windows Server Backups, although the backup appears to complete it reports that it was incomplete. Further investigation I can see that the VSS writers are failing. I can restore them back by rebooting…

Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,516 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-26T18:00:25.027+00:00
Rob 61 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-31T02:37:30.977+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points
4 answers

System state backup fails : Event 517 : 0x80070020 : Windows Server 2016

Hello, Am trying to perform System State backup on server. The error is: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. I know that it is possible to use Process Monitor to identify when a file is being accessed by…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-22T00:22:07.603+00:00
Vaughan Wickham 141 Reputation points
answered 2020-08-28T10:04:10.777+00:00
Vaughan Wickham 141 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Server 2019 Essentials Windows Server backup (WBADMIN) hangs

Hi there, im currently fighting with windows server backup on a 2019 essentials machine If i try to open the GUI it just stays at "Reading data" and never finishes. Even if i load this with administrative rights it wont progress past…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-26T09:30:59.59+00:00
BR0KK 641 Reputation points
answered 2020-08-28T08:10:04.977+00:00
BR0KK 641 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

What is contained in the BMR portion of windows server backup (System drive only)?

After successfully installing Windows Server 2016 on Dell PowerEdge T330, the system drive contains 4 partitions: RESERVED 120 MB RECOVERY 450 MB SYSTEM 100 MB PRIMARY 111 GB When performing a Windows server backup on Windows server 2016, The…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-14T22:38:13.52+00:00
Donald Loewen 41 Reputation points
accepted 2020-08-18T15:55:55.33+00:00
Donald Loewen 41 Reputation points
2 answers

windows server 2019 backup does not

Backup based on a daily schedule does not backup or indicate a failure. Info is shown indicating the next backup date. Manual backup was done successfully however no activity for scheduled backup. The backup is for a BMR as well as the operating system…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-14T17:34:02.197+00:00
Larry Ternowski 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-17T22:52:23.223+00:00
Larry Ternowski 1 Reputation point
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can server and client backups be stored on the same internal drive in Windows Server 2016 Essentials?

Hi all, I'm trying to create a local backup scheme for our studio through the WS2016E Dashboard and am running into a problem: Is it possible to store both the client computer/file history backups and the server backup on the same dedicated internal…

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,425 questions
Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,516 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-06T19:31:40.54+00:00
Polyhedron Productions 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-10T03:30:34.833+00:00
Eleven Yu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 10,706 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

Windows Image Recovery

Been restoring Windows Server 2012 Standard Full backup (Bare metal + 2 logical drives) to Hyper-V virtual machine. Restores logical drives then gets stuck on "Cleaning up" screen, not sure how to get around this? Been running for 12 hours. I…

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,149 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-04T06:40:50.977+00:00
Keagan Robson 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-05T08:11:26.79+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,301 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
4 answers

Robocopy not deleting source files

Hi Experts, Could you please advice on the following. Thank you. 1) Robocopy is having issues deleting the source files after the move. Below is the error. (from Robocopy.log) ERROR 32 (0x00000020) Deleting Source Directory \server01\Folder1\ The…

Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,516 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.PowerShell: A family of Microsoft task automation and configuration management frameworks consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.
5,446 questions
asked 2020-07-30T22:24:11.783+00:00
jayanthi ramprakash 46 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-03T21:46:23.823+00:00
Rich Matheisen 45,596 Reputation points
0 answers

Image backedup TimeStamp not Time done it ?

Backed up image (Storage : external West Digital 1T ) TimeStamp not Time done it ? clock been updated , backup app from control windows 10 pro 1909 ... see attachment

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-08-02T00:58:42.687+00:00
BleuOisou-3552 156 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-03T08:45:38.917+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points
3 answers

How to remove recovery points from Azure in an on-prem DPM 2019 installation

Hello, I have an installation of DPM 2019 that is configured to backup to an Azure recovery vault for our off-site backups. We have recently made a modification to our backup policies that allows us to reduce some of our storage footprint in Azure. For…

Azure Backup
Azure Backup
An Azure backup service that provides built-in management at scale.
1,172 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-07-21T05:47:43.017+00:00
el_nickos 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-07-23T05:55:26.087+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 40,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Windows Server 2016 Backup Scheduling Error

I am trying to reestablish a schedule for backing up. Using the wizard, entering all the fields in the various steps, and clicking 'Finish", I am receiving the error message "Cannot create a file when that file already exists". I found a…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:42:06.897+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:14:00.69+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Restore 2012 R2 WSB Hyper-V VM onto different host.

Hi, For various reasons I am being forced to use WSB to backup VM's on Server 2012 R2. I'm using an external USB HDD and the backups are running and I can test restore OK. My issue is (having not really used WSB for VM backups before) that I'm not…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:39:59.163+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:13:50.603+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

WSB Backup Disk size

Hello, When using Windows Server Backup to backup a volume or a folder, What is the recommended backup disk size regarding to the size of the volume or folder needed to be backed-up? Thanks. Thread source link:…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:38:51.627+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:13:42.38+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

VM Domaine Controler : backup and restore, is it sufficient to save only the vhd?

Hello, We have 2 DC's windows server 2008R2 in our domaine, both are vm in different hosts. Bakup procedure: For backup we save daily the vhd for each machine Restore procedure: for restore (for exemple if we lost the host) we will juste create…

Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
464 questions
asked 2020-07-16T07:37:59.85+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
accepted 2020-07-17T02:13:35.007+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points