Windows Server Backup - Not using all destination space
I administer a very small environment on the side. I am using Windows Server backup on a QNAP iSCSI target as the local destination with Azure as a cloud backup (immutable). The local backup is using 1336GB out of 1999GB, resulting in 18 copies. I am using Performance (VSS). Why isnt using more of the destination space? I am having trouble finding logs and such to look at.
Clone a Windows 2016 Server HDD to a bootable SSD for replacement/backup
Does Server 2016 have an easy way to clone the HDD to an SSD, including replicating the drive partitions so that the drive can be simply swapped out of the machine? And a way to save a backup clone in case of that drive's failure? I saw articles about using Sysprep to prepare an image but that doesnt provide for making sure the recovery partition is cloned, nor does it ensure that the machine will be bootable. Can it perhaps take a hardware fingerprint to make sure its being used for one particular machine? If the solution is a 3rd party cloning tool, what is recommended? Thanks!
Data Protection Manager storage usage
DPM stores everything on a local 20TB RAID (formatted in ReFS). The system was running DPM 2019 a week or so ago and total storage usage was about 11TB. It had been online for several years before I got to it so storage usage was stable. I upgraded to DPM 2022 since we had to move all the VMs from a 2019 Hyper-V cluster to a 2022 Hyper-V cluster, so we had to update DPM to be able to support the new cluster. I also made some adjustments to the protection jobs, pulling out any old VMs that weren't in use anymore and adding a few "new" servers that weren't currently in DPM. Within less than a week the storage usage has skyrocketed and the drive is now almost full. I deleted a bunch of old retention points yesterday to get some space back, but DPM went and gobbled most of it up last night. I am puzzled why the usage is so high for just 10 days' worth of recovery points. The environment that we're backing up isn't big. I have searched for old recovery points that might have been missed the first time around and came up with about 200GB, which is hardly anything. Deduplication isn't an option since the DPM server is physical. When I checked this morning there were 857GB free on the storage drive. Now (2:40pm) there are just 348Gb free, but the only DPM jobs that have run since this morning are synchronization jobs and Monitoring shows they transferred less than half a GB. So why is DPM showing half a TB gone from free space? I was wondering if there's some other issue that might be affecting storage usage, perhaps to do with ReFS. Any other ideas would be much appreciated!
Active Directory Backup & Restore issue
Hi, I have taken backup of my operational Active Directory server and tried to restore it to different machine. My server is up and able to access Active Directory users and computer console. when i am trying to create new user, it is giving me below error. Source and Destination server has same platform. Anyone has idea ?
Veeam B&R backup jobs failed to login to Qnap Nas after KB5011503 installed
Good Morning, Veeam backup & Replication CE 11 (last release) installed on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V VM from about 1 month Veeam Backup jobs use as destination a shared folder on Qnap Nas. Windows 2019 VM Italian language standalone, Qnap Nas under domain. R&W user used for Qnap autentication it's local user for Qnap and Administrator for Win2019 VM. All go fine before KB5011503 update After this installation Veeam Backup job works only with guest user. No other user can autenticate to Qnap with SMB 1, 2, 3 Error message on Qnap is "Processing MACHINENAME Error: Nome utente o password non corretta --tr:Error code: 0x0000052e Failed to process [isFileExists]. --tr:Client failed to process the command. Command: [isFileExists]. --tr:event:3:" Trying to uninstal KB5011503 update, after reboot all veeam Backup Job returns to work. Updating KB5011503 again all Job stop to work. Could be this a bug? Where I can report this to microsoft? Thanks Paolo
Unable to restore 2022 Domain Controller from Windows Backup System State
I am trying to test restoring a Windows 2022 DC and can't get it to work. I have backed a test DC using Windows Backup and selected 'System State' (I have also tried using a full backup with the same outcome). I am trying to restore to a isolated system (as this is just for DR validation). On the isolated system I boot into AD recovery mode, run the windows backup, select restore (trying both authoritative and non-authoritiative) and let it run. It completed with no issues and once it reboots it takes me to the logon screen. This is where the issue is. I can't log in. Any account I try it give me a “We can't sign you with this credential because your domain isn't available”. Any suggestions are appreciated.When using Server Backup, will it recover silent corruption or bitflips?
When server backup runs, does it check for silent corruption of files, particularly those that haven't been used in a while? For example, we have reports from say 2015, if a bit of corruption sneaks in, does backup compare checksums to repair that corrupted file, or does it just backup that now corrupted file?Help setting a server to server automatic backup
I am a newbee and will like learn what is to look for the following task objective. I have a physical server Windows 2012 and a virtual server WS 2016.I will like to have the server make copies or backup or a particular folder located in the physical W2012 server to the VPS 2016 server. Is there way to do this automatically on a daily basis? I have come across the term fail over, but not sure if this is related to backup.Bitlocker Conflicting with Windows Local Backup
Hello Everyone, Im currently managing the Backups over various different editions of Windows Server, and one common theme im finding is that Bitlocker does not always like to play nice with Windows Local Backup. At the moment im trying to resolve an issue in which bitlocker locks itself after being left for longer periods of time, meaning the drive target of the Backup cannot be accessed, leading the drive to fail until someone signs into the server. Would anyone have some sort of script that would allow the drive to be woken up per say so that it does not lock?Windows Server 2008R2 Backup failed
Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup Date: 31/01/2019 15:54:15 Event ID: 517 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: server-ups.upsdomain.in Description: The backup operation that started at '2019-01-31T10:08:16.321413700Z' has failed with following error code '2155348256' (Windows Backup failed to set security on the files and folders under '<backup location>\WindowsImageBackup\<Computer Name>'. Check that SYSTEM has permissions to overwrite the previous backup.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" /> <EventID>517</EventID> <Version>0</Version> <Level>2</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-01-31T10:24:15.364298200Z" /> <EventRecordID>73065</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="3632" ThreadID="4536" /> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>server-ups.upsdomain.in</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> <EventData> <Data Name="BackupTime">2019-01-31T10:08:16.321413700Z</Data> <Data Name="ErrorCode">2155348256</Data> <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348256</Data> </EventData> </Event>
