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
