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Azure backup folder exclusion

I tried to find a way to do it, but I am not sure if it's possible or not. Using Recovery services on Azure, I installed the Microsoft Azure Backup Agent on an IIS server. We have multiple websites hosted and each website use ELMAH for logging. We…
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Exchange 2013 Throttling Policy with Windows Server Backup

We have an Exchange 2013 Server having issues after the daily backup procedure from Windows Server Backup. Clients (mainly ActiveSync devices) try to access the Exchange Server during the backup process and after, they get locked out due Throttling…
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Windows Server Backup - disk full

We have a Win SBS 2011 Essentials system, SP1, auto installing updates. It's using Windows Server Backup to take daily backups to one of five external USB drives, which we rotate offsite. Windows Server Backup is using the drives as dedicated backup…
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Windows Server Backup "the parameter is incorrect" on Hyper-V Core

In my lab I run a Hyper-V Server 2012 Core to run multiple test-systems virtualy. To backup my system I want to use the "Windows Server Backup" role/feature. This role/feature works fine on other systems (include Windows 2012 Server Core) but not…
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Is it necessary to back up the System Volume Information folder?

On a Windows Small Business Server 2011, I have redirected the shadow copies for all volumes to a single, dedicated volume. This volume contains no other data; the only folder is System Volume Information. Is it necessary to back up this folder for…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup Logon Failure

I am trying to create a scheduled backup on a Server 2008 R2 box (using the built-in Windows Server Backup UI). Whenever I run a backup manually (image or otherwise), it works perfectly. When I try to schedule the same backup I get all the way to…
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Restoring individual Hyper-V machine backed up with Windows Server Backup?

Is it possible to restore Hyper-V virtual machine (just one of 4) using Windows Server Backup (if it was backed up first)? Or is there no way to do individual and every time one machines goes bad full recovery of Hyper-V is required? I've read…
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Where does Windows Server 2012 R2 Expect to see the WindowsImageBackup folder?

Whenever I try to recover a server from the Windows Reccovery Environment, it never finds the backup image. I tried the networking option, but it never sees it. It scans the share, no error, finds nothing. If I do it "normal," no network share,…
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fragmentation leads to excessive vhdx backup size

The server hosts a service called MultiCash-Datenbank. For each user it keeps two cache files (SPASD32.SRC and SPASD32Z.SRC), which grow in size by ~1MB/day. There's also a bunch of small data files added each day. I have been observing our…
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Full system backups to remote NAS on Windows Server 2008

Context: I own a Windows Server 2008 in my office, and a WD My Cloud NAS at home. Currently, I am using the WD sync software to sync up a backup folder, which contains all the files (more or less OS files I don't have access to). I am aware a files…
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Windows Server Backup MMC is crashing

I'm having a problem with Windows Server Backup. When I want to do anything, I get a window that says: blbmmc.dll MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it Report this error to Microsoft, and then shut down MMC Unload the snap-in…
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windows server backup performance

Windows server backup has various performance and configuration settings - one of these promises better backup performance but at cost of "performance on the server may be reduced by as much as 200%". My question is, because it isn't clear - is this…
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I am looking for software that can parse emails and expect emails within a grace period

I manage a diverse set of backup systems, the only commonality is email notifications, There status being Failed, Success, Success with exceptions and unknown(where the email isn't sent). Case 1) Expect email from system3@example.net every day, at…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 System State backup

Running a member server 2008R2 server. Backups have been running fine for some time but recently ceased to run. We have been using CloudBerry Lab Enterprise Backup to store backups in cloud storage. I started looking at CloudBerry logs and did not…
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Windows Server Backup not working on scheduled task but working with the "Backup Once"

I'm trying to create Backup Schedule from my local drive on a network share but Windows Server 2012 won't let me. I get the error "The parameters are incorrect". When I try the "Backup Once" with all the same settings it just works... After a few…
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