Media Backup For Server 2012 R2

I have a home server running win server 2012 r2. It runs scheduled backups of my hdd with OS which is good, but I would also like to backup my music, videos and pictures as well. I see that the
OS is backed up into dat files amung others which is fine, but is there a way to backup my media files in their actual extensions (.mp3, .png etc)?
Thanks

Hi,
It seems that you would like to "copy your media files to another location as a backup".
If this is correct you can simply create a schedule task and run a robocopy command line to help copy all these files to another location. For example:
robocopy x:\folder \\win2012r2\folder /s
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265970.aspx
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281662
How
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/08/19/working-with-file-shares-in-windows-server-2008-r2-failover-clusters.aspx
Failover
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844(v=ws.10).aspx
Using
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn440540.aspx
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265980.aspx
How
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UserTime 00:00:00.000
KernelTime 00:00:00.000
QuotaPoolUsage[PagedPool] 0
QuotaPoolUsage[NonPagedPool] 0
Working Set Sizes (now,min,max) (7821, 50, 345) (31284KB, 200KB, 1380KB)
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VirtualSize 128 Mb
PeakVirtualSize 133 Mb
PageFaultCount 140829
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CommitCharge 5761
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Base fffff8800355e000 Limit fffff88003558000 Call 0
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fffff880`0355d7f8 fffff880`054df845 : 00000000`0000009e fffffa80`62361780 00000000`0000003c 00000000`00000000 : nt!KeBugCheckEx
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EMC support checked further for a fix for this issue, and found that it’s a reported issue with Hyper-V and this following article has the hotfix patch for 2008 R2: KB 2135160
Now stuck for solution for Hyper 2012, is there any hotfix available?
Plz help
Regards
Nitin

Cannot disable client backup in Server 2012 R2 Essentials

I have installed Server 2012 R2 Essentials for a customer, but i cannot disable Client backup.
I have not diskspace on this server to take backup of the Client machines, and hope there is an option for disabling backup or uninstall the Connector software.

Hi,
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Open the
Dashboard. And click the Devices tab.
Click the name of the computer for which you want to disable backups.
In the Tasks pane, click
Customize Backup for the computer. The Customize Backup wizard appears.
Click
Disable backup for this computer, and then select whether you want to keep or delete the existing backup files. And then click
Save changes.
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Disable backup for a computer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj713515.aspx
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Hi,
We are backing up a Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine's files and folders, using Windows Server Backup, to an external hard drive. That backup drive is now 84% full. It is my understanding that Windows Server Backup will automatically delete old backups
when necessary, but does anybody know at what point that happens? When the target reaches 90%?
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Hi,
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https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/62488e7a-4638-430c-950c-e75ac42b0fa3/how-a-can-delete-old-versions
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Hi everyone,
I have a domain where all the server are Windows Server 2008R2, Due to certain progams that are about to enter the organization I have to deploy several new servers that will run server 2012R2 and possibly upgrade a few existing ones to 2012R2 as well.
That is however not the problem.
I recently found out the remote desktop servers that run the RD licensing role, Don't serve windows server 2012, but if I deploy a new RDS with server 2012 R2 it can serve both my old 2008 R2 servers and my new 2012 R2 servers. First I'd like to know if
it's correct and if any of you have tried that in the past. Furtner, I need to know if the CAL license that's installed on my 2008 R2 server is valid for 2012R2 servers as well, is there a way to find that out?
Hoping for a quick response.

Hi David,
You are correct, a 2012 R2 server can license your 2008 R2 servers, but your 2008 R2 CALs will not work to license connections to 2012 R2. A good wiki here...
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14988.rds-and-ts-cal-interoperability-matrix.aspx
Hope this helps!

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