Windows 8.1 backup

I'm getting ready to roll out Windows 8.1 to some users. I've noticed that Backup and Restore has been changed to File History (and System Image is a different tool now).
Why can I no longer store backup files on a network share? It gives no option to backup to a network share. System Image does, but it does not let me choose what drives to backup and also gives no option to schedule a backup.
Are there any free alternatives to backup (as done in Windows 7) for Windows 8.1?

By the way, you can ask wbadmin for its embedded command line help by typing:
wbadmin start backup /help
The specific command line I use, scheduled via Task Manager to run every day at 2 am, is:
wbadmin start backup -allCritical -vssFull -quiet -backupTarget:G:\
After a long initial backup of the entire set of critical volumes, this does an
incremental Volume Shadow Copy-integrated System Image backup. It completes often in less than an hour.
Drive G: is my external 3 TB USB MyBook drive, and on it at the moment are 54 system images I can choose to restore from.
I can also access the backed-up data in any of these shadow copy system images via 3rd party VSS access programs such as Z-VSScopy (since Windows 8 does not have the Previous Versions feature any longer).
That's protection for every single file on the disk, not just those File History chooses to include.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
Configure The Windows 8 "To Work" Options

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821
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Windows Server 2008 backup schedule wizard not showing volumes

Hi folks,
We are running into issues when attempting to configure a Windows Backup schedule through either running the Backup Schedule wizard or through using the wbadmin utility. While I have previously posted this issue on a separate forum (with no luck) I’ve restructured
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On running the backup wizard the backup configuration screen shows the backup size to be 0KB for the Full Server option or if I choose ‘Custom’ and go to ‘select backup items’ the volume list is empty. However the later ‘select destination disk’ screen of
the wizard lists all of the disks attached to the server along with the associated volume letters (via clicking the ‘Show All Available Disks’ option).
On the backup wizard reaching the summary stage it then proceeds to format the destination disk. On completion of this format the wizard status then changes to ‘Creating backup schedule’ at which point it then fails with the message “The specified number
of volumes is invalid”.
Equally running the following wbadmin command:
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Results in the following error:
“ERROR - One of the source volumes specified cannot be included: c: Please specify source as a volume drive letter or access path (if volume is mounted in a folder). Only volumes on locally attached disks can be backed up.”
The server is a Dell PowerEdge R620 running Windows server 2008SP2 and is operating as expected other than for this windows back issue. Everything appears as normal when I view the disks within the Disk Management Console. Backups used to run on this server
fine before it was migrated from old hardware to new hardware using Doubletake Move. Everything else is running fine since the migration apart from Windows backup so not why it would only be effecting Windows backup. I have also ran the wbadmin ‘delete
catalog’ command to remove reference to the previous backups that were taken.
Is there any other tests that I can run to determine why Windows backup is having trouble seeing the available volumes at the 'Select Backup items' stage but not at the Select Destination' stage? Any help or pointers in the right direction would be very
much appreciated.
Thanks,
Niall

Hi Mandy,
Thanks for your advise and apologies for my delayed response. I've was on leave for the past two weeks and my colleague (who had been watching this post in my absence)
was nervous about deleting registry entries (:>)..
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"Storage volume shadow copies" at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{533C5B84-EC70-11D2-9505-00C04F79DEAF}
OR "Storage Volumes" at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}
Happy to share the other values stored under these two keys if they would be of use in helping spot the problem?
The only upperFilters value that I found within the Class registry folder that related to storage was:
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Thanks,
Niall

Windows 2008 R2 backup fails with event 521 error code 2155348001

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Hyper-V role installed.
OS on drive C. All VMs stored on Drive D.
I am attempting to run a Bare Metal backup of the host system to a network share.
Drive D is not included in the backup job. I am getting the following error:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          1/10/2014 11:28:52 PM
Event ID:      521
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:
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details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Reviewing event details, as suggested, does not offer any solution.
I have tried the suggested solutions in other similar threads of increasing the timeout value with the registry entry.
This does not work.
I have not tried reregistering the VSS writers manually, as the only links I have found are for server 2003/2008 (not R2) and explicitly state that they won’t work on higher versions of the OS, since they now utilize manifests and the manual procedure could
cause problems for those servers. Haven't found similar procedures for 2008 R2.
I have been able to narrow this down a bit.
A Windows 2008 R2 SP1 server with Hyper-V installed – backup to a network share is successful;
Install the DPM 2012 agent – same backup fails with the 2155348001 error.
We use DPM 2012 to backup VMs, but DPM cannot perform a bare metal backup/restore of server and the 2012 version no longer has the DPMSRT feature.
I prefer to run Bare Metal Backup to a file server share.
Stuck on this one.
Rick

Hi,
The issue is related to DPM, I would suggest you ask for help from DPM forums:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=dataprotectionmanager
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Windows 8.1 backup on z50-70

Hi Team,
Recently brought the Lenovo ideapad laptop z50-70 59436412 with pre-built windows 8.1
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I have 2 partitions C with around 870GB and D with around 2 Gb of free space. When I opened the one key recovery and try to create the system image the default hidden partition is not been seen. How to select it?
When I am selecting the system image to be stored in D drive, there is insufficient space as the image is around 28GB. I don't want to store the image in C drive. How to overcome this?
Can I create around 5 partitions from C drive without taking the system image and then can I take system image on C drive and store it in another drive so that it could be at ease in case of restore?
Is it possible to take a image of a single partition (OS in C drive) and then later can I restore the lone partition without any issues? If so, how.
Can I also take an entire system backup and then restore only the desired partition? I hope that the
partitions created newly doesn't affect any of the above process.
The reason being I need to remove the superfish and then take the backup image. Thanks for your time.
Thanks,
Cheeli.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

1. As long as the harddrive is operational, you can always do a system restore back to the point when you first got your computer. If you look at the usermanual on your hard drive it is using OneKeyRecovery to do a factory restore. But doing this wipes out all your personal info, any installed software and returns the partition back to factory.
2. Yes this is true. I will explain how later.
3. If you backup partitions then yes you can restore individual partitions, changes to the size or numbers of partitions will not matter, as long as the partition you are trying to restore is as large as it was when you backed it up, then you will be fine. If the partition is smaller than what you backed up, you will not be able to do it.. But if you create a disc image and restore that, then all changes will be overwritten and you will see what you had when you backed it up.
4 This one is complicated. If you create backups for all your partitions including the recovery partition and then your harddrive fails then you can recover the harddrive back to what it was originally, as long as the new harddrive is exactly the same size as the old drive. That is using One Key Recovery. But i you use other backup software then you can restore the partitions to the new harddrive as long as the new harddrive is the same size or larger.
5. The restore partition is not just hidden. It is inaccessible to Windows normally. There is no partition letter. You have to use Admin Tools to even see it.
6. You can create as many partitions as you want. Just do not delete any partitions on the drive. You should only mess with the original C: drive. Shrink it to whatever size you want . My C: drive is around 100GB and then I have the rest of the harddrive partitioned as I need it.
Above I told you I would get into looking at the factory partition. I also mentioned Admin Tools. If you go to the control panel and then select Admin Tools and then go to the Computer management admin tool and start it then select the disk management option along in the left column. On the right side you will see your various drives and the partitions on each. You will see you have many more than 2 partitions.
I am going to give you a few links to help you out a bit.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824839.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
http://support.lenovo.com/en/documents/ht077144
http://www.howtogeek.com/school/using-windows-admin-tools-like-a-pro/lesson4/
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Hoov
Microsoft MVP - Consumer Security
SpywareHammer.com

Windows 8.1 Backup and Recovery for Factory installed windows 8 PC

Hey There,
               Iam using HP Pavilion N007ax Notebook .. while purchasing my notebook, i cames with pre - Installed Windows 8 Operating Sytem with an system factory image Backup .. if any problem occurs i can easily recovered that OS and bring back to normal ..
                   I Finally upgraded to windows 8.1 via store .. i tried to refresh my PC because of some crashes .. while refreshing My PC got downgraded and returns back to Windows 8 .. this problem happens more than 5 times for me ..
                 Now I want to Make Backup of Windows 8.1 as an image instead of windows 8 Sytem image given with it.. because i cannot be able to download windows 8.1 every time when it is crashed ..
                  How can i Backup installed 8.1 to image or otherwise How can i get Windows 8.1 image for my PC !!
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****I am not an HP employee****
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Hi,
Nothing we can do actually, that's Microsoft's policy. I've got 2 machines run Windows 8.1 and 3 machines run Windows 8.1 upgraded. All I need: one copy and can applly for 3 machines (all are much better). Unfortunately I have to use Store for EACH machine to upgrade to Windows 8.1 if I have to restore.
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Windows home server 2011 Backup with PC Windows 8 Pro - Backup failed (Unsuccessful)

On the PC under Windows 8 Pro, Event message: Backup job 1 on HCGSERVER did not succeed. Reason: ClientVssProblem, System.String[]
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Your Win8 PC is likely to have come with UEFI and uses GPT hard disks, so you need to install a hotfix on the server to allow it to back up the client PCs.
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Dear Friends,
My Server: HP DL380-G7, OS: Win Server2008 (original).
10 days ago when one of my web application is not working I tried to restore my file in old state. So I apply "Windows image backup" services. After completing the process I found that I can't boot. And later when I installed a new OS I discover
all my data from dives gone even from my attached USB hard drive.
HELP ME!!!!! Its my greatest mistake in my 7 years career.
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Elements 8 on Windows 8.1: Backup throws Error

My trusted Photoshop Elements 8 and Elements Organizer with a catalog of 38,566 photos lives on a Windows 8.1 machine, all updates current.
When trying to make a full backup to an external hard disk, it writes 65,426 files before throwing a simple error (German, along the lines of "there was an error writing data") and exiting. Of the created backup, 31,562 files are JPGs, the rest are XMP and XML, and finally one catalog.buc is created. There is no backup.tly (I assume that would be the file to confirm a backup is complete). The JPGs date from the past to 2011 (the originals go up into the present). The error is reproducible.
I tried repairing and optimizing the catalog, all elements are connected. The catalog itself works nicely.
What to do? Living without a backup seems risky, so I need a solution.

Found the issue: it had to do with NTFS security properties. Part of my pictures directories was on an old hard disk, inherited from a previous Windows installation, and my current account wasn't the owner of those pictures. Apparently Elements Organizer stumbled over those rights issues (though it could read them alright, but that wasn't enough, it thought). Reclaimed ownership of all my pictures, and the backup ran through successfully.

Windows Server 2012 - Backup failing with Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed

Hi
We have a Windows 2012 server with Exchange 2013, all is working fine except now i am getting issues with the backup.
'Exchange - The application will not be available for recovery from this backup. the consistency check failed for the component Microsoft Exchange Server'
I have checked the database all is fine, i have created a new db and move all mailbox;s over and then removed the old db, i have enabled circular logging and then disabled it, it seems no matter what i do i cannot get a full backup!
i did have to restore the server once and the backups still worked for about 4 days after that and then stopped, i have also tried to remove and re add the backup role!
i am stumped, any advice would be great!

Hi
Ok, i created a test db and tried to back it up right away, it failed, i did not add any mailbox's to it either. i got quite a few events in the windows logs, as well as the same event above i got the following:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database 4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261645</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>4843b37c-7b3c-42b2-8b57-1393615c2c15</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2038
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Microsoft Exchange VSS Writer backup failed. No log files were truncated. Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9. Database db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">2038</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261646</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>db5826f3-1029-4219-ad80-441a0e94537a</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 2034
Task Category: Exchange VSS Writer
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Replication service VSS Writer (Instance 75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9) failed with error FFFFFFFC when processing the backup completion event.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSExchangeRepl" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">2034</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261649</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>75754d0d-8dfe-4909-8beb-5a4f824254a9</Data>
<Data>FFFFFFFC</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name: Application
Source: SPP
Date: 21/01/2013 10:16:30
Event ID: 16389
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NERDS-DC01.nerds.local
Description:
Writer Microsoft Exchange Writer experienced retryable error during shadow copy creation. Retrying... More info: .
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="SPP" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">16389</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-01-21T10:16:30.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>261650</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>NERDS-DC01.nerds.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Microsoft Exchange Writer</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>The writer experienced a transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error may not reoccur. (0x800423F3)</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>00000000A5120000981200000000000042BEB7C511CAC619E59C92030000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

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