Questions tagged [windows-server-backup]
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Windows server backup skips itself
There is a Windows Server 2012 R2 with a scheduled windows server backup, but it does not run the backup. However, if I hit the "Run Once" backup, it runs successfully. There is no log at %windir%\logs\windowsserverbackup
In the Event Viewer there…
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Where does Windows Server Backup store its "templates"?
I have a malfunctioning Windows Server Backup instance on WS2012R2, it has a weird but stable behavior - it starts up, if it succeeded last time, it fails with 0x8007007b ("Syntax error in file or dir name, or volume label"), if it failed last time,…
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Can I restore a SQL Server instance from file backups only?
Our windows 2016 server failed to restart after a windows update yesterday.
In order to avoid the update that crashed it issue (whatever it was), I'm in the process of rebuilding it clean.
So I've reinstalled Windows Server 2016, and SQL Server 2016…
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Backup Exec 2014 Setup
So I'm really rusty when it comes to configuring Backup Exec 2014 to back up to tape library.
Current config
Server 2012
HP 1/8 G2 AutoLoader LTO4 via SAS Card
Can someone help me out. enter image description here
Before powering on the Autoloader,…
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Windows Server Backup Catalog corrupted
I am facing this issue multiple times on my Windows 2008R2 Server. It is showing this error when I try to backup using wbadmin.
"Windows backup failed. Global Catalog Corrupted."
I tried restoring the catalog from old backups, and run >SFC /scannow…
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Is my Windows Server Backup in Azure safe against ransomware attacks?
I am thinking of a backup plan for fast recovery scenario for my windows Azure hosted VM's.
My plan is to create a backup disk that is attached to my VM and using Windows Server Backup I create a backup on that disk using Windows Server Backup.
I…
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Windows Server Backup - managing multiple targets
I have Windows Server Backup connected to 2x NAS devices (via iSCSI), each one is situated in a different building for resilience.
I'd like to backup from WSB to both targets. WSB supports multiple targets, however the MS recommendation is to rotate…
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Restoring Windows Server 2008 to 2012
I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am about to create a one time backup of a system drive (D: approx. 2TB - contains files and folders only), using the 'Windows Server Backup' tool. I'm planning on saving this backup to an external HDD.
I will…
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Incorrect Credentials: Windows Server Backup
I have three windows servers I'm trying to backup to a network folder. I was able to schedule a backup of the first two with no problem, but the third one (the domain controller) throws the error "The user name or password is incorrect." I am using…
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Restore OS volume with windows server backup
I want to take a backup of my azure VM after provisioning in order to give less-privileged users the ability to do a full restore sometime down the road. However, it appears that you can't do a volume restore of the OS drive while it's running…
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Schedule a daily system state backup to system drive while keeping the backup of the last 2 days
I want to do an automatic daily system state backup of my 2012 R2 DC. I only want to keep the backups of the last 2 days.
There is one caveat: I want to backup to a network share (and via the wizard it only allows one version of my backup).
This…
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Windows Server 2012 R2/Hyper-V - Restoring virtualized domain controllers
It appears as if there is a large amount of conflicting or old (pertaining to Server 2008) information regarding backing up and restoring domain controllers hosted in Hyper-V.
I have two domain controllers (Both running Server 2012 R2). Let's call…
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Mount VHD as ReadOnly
So I have the following scenario - two servers, one is Web server, another is a Backup server. Both running Windows Server 2012 R2
I have a mapped drive on Web referencing Backup I have a VHD I created on the Map drive, physically located on Backup…
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Stop Windows Backup from making Deduplication Exclusion for backup drive
With Windows Server Backup after every backup, the server puts an exclusion in the Deduplication list for the backup folder. Is there a way to stop this behavior?
If not, is there a way to get Powershell to remove the exclusion?
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The Powershell…
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Windows Server Backup Snap-In Initializes/Moves Extremely Slowly
I have an SBS-2011 box. The WSB snap-in consistently takes 10+ minutes to move beyond 'Reading Data'. After the snap-in finally initializes I experience the same behavior when performing a recovery.
Has anybody experienced this\have any…
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