Windows Server Backup cannot backup to network or mapped drive - Microsoft what were you thinking?

I still cannot believe that you cannot do a scheduled backup to a network drive in windows server 2008. You can only do it to a local internal/external drive. Microsoft are you crazy? That goes against all best practices for backing up your data when you should have a backup at least 60 miles away from the original server. Gives us back the NT Backup tool or provide a solution for this.

Your feedback is valid. This issue has been fixed in WS2008 R2.
Thanks,
Prabu Ambravaneswarn [MSFT]
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That doesn't exactly help people who run windows server 2008 now does it?
something so trivial that could be done in server 2003 with NTBackup and it wasnt included in server 2008? WHo overlooked that.
Why can this not be fixed in server 2008 with a update or a service pack?
Also, then why is it you can do a MANUAL backup to a network drive, but not a scheduled one?

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Error using Window Server Backup on 2012R2 Hyper-V to network share

Hi
I have a Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V server. It runs a Windows 2012 R2 VM (called
server-1).
I want to backup the VM to a network location (\\network-1\server-1_backup$). To do this, I installed Windows Server Backup from the command line and configured a backup to look like this:
C:\Users\admin>wbadmin enable backup
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The scheduled backup settings:
Bare metal recovery : Not Included
System state backup: Not Included
Volumes in backup: (null)
Components in backup: HyperV\server-1
Files excluded: (null)
Advanced settings: VSS Backup Option (FULL)
Location to store backup: \\network-1\server-1_backup$\
Times of day to run backup: 04:00
But when I run this backup manually, I get the following error:
C:\Users\admin>wbadmin start backup
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Do you want to create a backup using the same configuration that you use for
scheduled backups?
[Y] Yes [N] No y
The backup operation to Scheduled backup target is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Summary of the backup operation:
The backup operation stopped before completing.
The backup operation stopped before completing.
Detailed error: A component critical volume failed to snapshot.
Log of files successfully backed up:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup-23-02-2015_08-49-55.log
Log of files for which backup failed:
C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup\Backup_Error-23-02-2015_08-49-55.log
ERROR - The shared restore point operation failed with error (0x8100010c)
No valid component or volume to snapshot.
A component critical volume failed to snapshot.
The log file then looks like this:
Writer Failures
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
Instance Id: {3976D373-854E-4527-B85D-7B61924C8597}
Writer Name: Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer
Writer State: 0
Failure Result: 81000112
Application Result: 0
Application Message: (null)
   Component: 1DAF1C56-0635-4043-A933-E97A62EBC139
   Logical Path:
   Component Result: 8100010D
   Component Message: Component reports path on network share which cannot be snapshotted. (0x8100010D)
   Component: 30144C93-56A2-4259-B276-86D59AC767E9
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}
   Component: 1DAF1C56-0635-4043-A933-E97A62EBC139
   Caption     : Offline\server-1
   Logical Path:
   Error           : 8078001D
   Error Message   : The operation ended before completion.
The odd thing is that if I set this up from a Windows 2012 Server using the GUI to exactly the same network destination, the backup works no problem. It just doesn't work when using Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V configured through a command line.
Any help appreciated,
Andrew

Hi Andrew,
I tested this in my lab server 2012R2 , but there's no error .
I would suggest you to create a new share folder on other server then check if the issue persists .
Writer Name: Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer
Writer State: 0
Failure Result: 81000112
Application Result: 0
Application Message: (null)
   Component: 1DAF1C56-0635-4043-A933-E97A62EBC139
   Logical Path:
   Component Result: 8100010D
   Component Message: Component reports path on network share which cannot be snapshotted. (0x8100010D)"
According to this error , please check if the VM's resource (such as VHD file) was restored on network share .
I also searched the error "ERROR - The shared restore point operation failed with error (0x8100010c)" , but I can not find it within following article :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/09/16/diagnosing-failures-in-windows-server-backup-part-1-vss-spp-errors.aspx
Any further information please feel free to let us know .
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Elton Ji
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[Forum FAQ] Cannot perform a backup schedule via Windows Server Backup and receive "The system cannot find the path specified." Error

Symptom One
You attempt to
schedule a backup every day via Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2008 R2. At the beginning, the backup works without issue. But after a few days it failed and you receive the error “Windows Server Backup:
The system cannot find the path specified.”
Cause
The issue may occur if there is
no shadow copy storage space available on the backup volume.
Verify
You can use the List ShadowStorage command to check if you have enough storage space to store the newly created shadow copy. If you've reviewed the size of the backup snapshot and discovered
that there is no allocated space for the storage association, you need to resize shadowstorage.
Solution
You could run the command below to create shadow copy storage space on the backup volume:
vssadmin resize
shadowstorage /for=<ForVolumeSpec> /on=<OnVolumeSpec> [/maxsize=<MaxSizeSpec>]
More Information
Vssadmin resize shadowstorage
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788050.aspx
Symptom Two
When you add
another external hard drive to backup schedule via Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2012, it fails and you receive the error “The System cannot find the path specified.”
Cause
The issue is due to the
Original Destination Disk was not attached to the server.
Verify
You could check the disk status in Disk Management to see if the Original Destination Disk is offline or removed.
Solution
You need to attach
Original Destination Disk to the Server then choose another external hard drive as backup target. After that, you could remove the Original Destination Disk.
Workaround
To work around this issue, please use the WBADMIN command line tool to add disk.
WBADMIN ENABLE BACKUP -addtarget :{ DiskID}
The AddTarget parameter takes disk ID as parameter. It can be retrieved by running "WBADMIN GET DISKS" command.
Example:
WBADMIN ENABLE BACKUP
-addtarget :{ aa123d14-bba0-1dd9-0d93-80aaaa6bbb63}
More Information
Wbadmin enable backup
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742130.aspx
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[Windows Server 2008 R2] [Windows Server Backup] How to remove an old backup set

Hello,
long time ago I made a backup of some files of a server on a network location running manually a command like this one:
"wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\Server1\Backup\MyServer\wbadmin_Effe -include:F: -user:DOMAIN\myself -password:******** -quiet"
Now this network location is no more available because that machine is definitely broken.
I have no problems to run and create backups on a local drive or on other network locations.
My only problem is that now, in the main window of Windows Server Backup, when i click "View details" under "All Backups", I can still see that backup as the oldest available... that's a bit annoying.
It appears also if I run the command "wbadmin GET VERSIONS".
Does anybody know how can I remove this backup version set from my server?
Thanks,
Alex.

Hi Alex,
The command will remove all backups existed on your server. If you cannot get Shadow Copy ID and there are "good" backups existed on you server, you could not remove the old backup versions.
How to completely delete the backup file from network share and clean up the backup version for the server?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/2ecc1c25-9308-4c50-be37-9762913cab61/how-to-completely-delete-the-backup-file-from-network-share-and-clean-up-the-backup-version-for-the?forum=windowsbackup
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Windows Server Backup - 0x80042407, seriously?

I installed server 2008 on a test server with 4x250GB drives in a RAID5 array.
Windows was installed on a 60GB partition, the rest of the array was left as free space.
After installing updates and drivers, I decided that I wanted a RAID10 array.
This would give me a chance to test the restore functionality of Windows Server Backup.
I did a full backup with Windows Server Backup to a network location.
After reconfiguring the RAID array I started the recovery process.
Here is the issue. right when the restore should start, I get an error....
The Windows Complete PC Restore operation failed.
Error details: The disk that is set as active in BIOS is too small to recover the original system disk. Replace the disk with a larger one and retry the restore operation. (0x80042407)
I've tried creating partitions of all sizes and leaving the disk blank, same error.
I even set the disk as the first boot device in BIOS.
I've read elsewhere that the disk must be the same size or larger. That just seems like a bad April fools joke to me.
Can anyone give me some insight on this issue?

Hello Jason,
Thank you for your reply.
For your further concern, this same or bigger disk size requirement is by design for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. As a suggestion, we recommend you use a bigger disk for Bare Metal Restore.
Currently we cannot edit the backup size. However, to fulfill your demand, there is a possible given workaround to restore the backup to smaller disk size.
Workaround: To recover the System manually using Volume recovery
By using this workaround, at minimum the OS critical partitions should be of the same size for the volume recovery.
To recovery the System manually from Windows Recovery Environment (when BMR – Complete PC Restore is not working), user has to recover all the partitions individually and then set the BCD boot entries.
Please follow the below mentioned steps:
1)    Get the backup version from the backup target.
2)    From version, get the size of partitions at the time of backup.
3)    Recreate the partitions manually with same or more size.
4)    Perform volume recovery of Individual volumes.
5)    Set the Active bit for System volume.
6)    Fix the Boot entries.
Please replace anything marked under <> with actual values. The yellow marked entries are for sample only. We have to pick the actual values from his system. Also assuming the Boot disk is disk 0 in this case.
Open Command prompt:
1)    Do wbadmin get versions –backuptarget:<X:>.
a.    Select the version id from. E.g. Version identifier: 02/11/2009-09:14
Note: If the backup target is network share, then run “start /w wpeinit” to enable networking.
2)    Do wbadmin get items –version:<versioned> -backuptarget:<X:>
a.    This will give the list of volumes that were backed up and their sizes.
3)    Using Diskpart, recreate your volumes of the same or more size. Assume that the Boot disk is Disk 0 and is empty. Disk 0 is the boot disk and is the first disk in BIOS boot order.
If the required partitions are already present then skip the steps below.
a.    Diskpart.exe
b.    List disk
c.    Select disk 0.
d.    Create par primary size=<size>
e.    Format fs=ntfs quick label=”OS”               (Format the OS partition with NTFS)
f.     Assign letter=D                 (assign drive letter D: to OS volume)
g.    Do the same for all the volumes you want to recover.
h.    Detail disk
i.      It lists the newly created partitions.
4)    To recover the volumes one by one,
a.    Do wbadmin get items –version:<versionid> -backuptarget:<X:> .
b.    Select the volume id or drive letter for OS volume that was backed up.
E.g. C: corresponds to the OS volume at backup time.
c.    Wbadmin start recovery –version:<versionid> -backuptarget:<x:> -itemType:Volume –items:C: -recoverytarget:D:
d.    Do the same for all the other volumes. Make sure that minimum space requirement is met.
e.    Set the active bit of System volume from Diskpart.
f.     Diskpart.exe ->
                                          i.    Select volume D:
                                         ii.    active
5)    Reboot the OS and boot back into WinRE as OS is not yet bootable.
6)    Select Startup-Repair option to fix the BCD boot entries.
7)    Reboot and OS should be in a bootable state.
8)    If OS is still not bootable, use bcdedit.exe/bootrec.exe in WinRE to fix the BCD boot options.
I understand that it will be reasonable to edit the backup so that the bare metal restore process can accept the smaller disk size, our product team are aware of this desired functionality and will definitely keep this in mind as future product development continues.
Thanks for your understandings.
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Mount vhdx file from Windows Server Backup 2012

We have a 2012 server with a network share that other servers backup to using Windows Server Backup. To view the files from a windows 2008 r2 backup .vhd file all I have to do is open it in windows explorer and it mounts as a drive and opens. When
I try to do the same with a 2012 backup (.vhdx) it tells me "you don't have permission to mount the file" but if I open disk management I can see the volume, and if I right click on it and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and add
a drive letter, then I can browse it. I get the same issue using mount-vhd in powershell.

Hi Adm1nMikeW,
Please try to use disk management --> action --> attach VHD (this way will avoid the error message).
The root cause is the attribute "nodefaultdriveletter" of the backup vhd was not set to "no".
You can try following setps :
1. in cmd prompt type diskpart
2. recognize the problematic volume you want to set via list volume
3. run command select volume "volume number"
4. run command attributes volume clear nodefaultdriveletter
then detach it and reattach the disk again .
Hope this helps
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Backed up files partially disappear after restore (Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server Backup)

Dear all,
I am experiencing a problem with "Windows Server 2008 R2", using Windows Server Backup.
Here's my setup:
Server: RAID 5 Disk setup
Backup:
By using Windows Server Backup (within Windows Server 2008 R2), C: and D: were fully backed up, with "System State" and "Baremetal Recovery" options selected. Backup went okay without any errors.
Restore:
By using Windows Recovery Environment (booted from Windows Server DVD), C: and D: were fully restored to the original partitions with "System Recovery" option found within Windows RE (without re-formatting partitions during restore). Restore
went OK without any errors. Rebooted, and system has been running fine.
Problem:
After the restore, the system itself seems running OK; no BSOD, no crash, no visible errors.
However, our client insisted some files (around 6 to 7) which are related to the propriety software has "disappeared" right after System Recovery.
Question:
Since Windows Server Backup is using "Volume Shadow Copy" technology which enables "live backup" of the running system, is it possible that some files will disappear (=restore error) after
System Recovery?
I cannot really find any errors or warnings related to Windows Server Backup in the event log, through. No Windows-backup errors. No VSS errors, too.
Do anybody have experienced this kind of problem in the past? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your reply, Ms. Mandy.
To make things clear, let me explain to you briefly:
1. The "missing data" was backed up with "full system backup".
2. After a system restore from the above backup image, as you mentioned, partitions has been overwritten with the partions' backup data in the Backup Data Set taken by Windows Server Backup. No error with backup. No error after restore, and reboot - system
has been running fine.
3. Although there was a report that the affected files(about 7 java exectables) were missing after the above restore operation, other aspect of system was running fine at the time of the report.
4. I have checked the original backup data set - and voila, there ARE files which seems to gone after restore.
5. When I used Windows Server Backup "on" Windows Server 2008 R2 normal environment (= NOT Recovery environment from DVD) and selectd ONLY these affected files to restore, these files could be RESTORED successfully, without any errors. SO... data
was property backed up.
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions so files created after the backup point will be missing.
I understand, and this is not the case this time, because the affected files are already present in the backup data set (= I have mounted the backup data as VHD, and I could clearly see them present in the mounted VHD file)
Plus, these files are completely restoreable via "selective file restore" in Windows Server Backup.
Things I want to know/confirm:
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions
If I understand this correctly, in case that the files in question are already present in the backup data set, these files SHOULD be restored after full system restore, right? (If these files could not be restored, Windows Server Backup SHOULD show some errors.)
What do you think, Ms. Mandy? :)
Jo

Windows Server Backup fail

Hi,
I had config a Windows Server Backup, however it was fail in every backup time. in Event Log, shown the error code '2155348010' (cannot create a backup file.). I had search this error code on Google, said that the backup destination drive cannot
other than 512 sector size. And I checked the drive is 4098 physical sector size. How can I format it as 512 sector size or 512e??? I tried using command 'format x: /a:512', but it say cannot format the drive. Since, the sector size specific
is too large. Any method able to format my drive to 512e?
My drive is Seagage Expansion Desktop 3TB Model:SRD00F2
Many Thanks

Hi Kuen,
I don't understand the above event log. However, you can try the below options and see if it helps.
1) Install the below hotfix. Run the backup. If it fails, then try formatting the drive with 512 bytes cluster.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982018
2) Check with HDD manufacturer for the tool to format the disk to 512 bytes sector.
Thanks,
Umesh.S.K

Backing up Exchange Server 2013 CU3 with Windows Server Backup Program

Looking at configuring Windows Server Backup Program to backup Exchange Server 2013 CU3 which is a member a DAG Group using a specific Backup Domain Account.
From my understanding from the following technet Article" Using Windows Server Backup to Backup and Restore Exchange Data" at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876851(v=exchg.150).aspx I cannot use wbadmin.exe has it uses an older
unsupported version of Powershell.
My question is what are the minimum AD rights required for an AD account needed to be able to backup/restore Exchange Datastore using Windows Server Backup Program in Windows Server 2012?
Thanks,
NIck

Hi Sathish,
After looking at your response, it all make sense except when I look at what exchange right assigned via RBAC. I understand that the backup service account will require access to the exchange databases
to be able to backing and restoring them. After looking at the different roles
I'm wondering if I require to assign both the Databases roles for Backing up the databases and the Disaster Recovery Role as well to be able to restore the databases has well as having a mailbox on the exchange
server for the backup service account?
Below is explanation of the roles via the ECP
Database Role
This role enables administrators to create, manage, mount and dismount mailbox and public folder databases on individual servers.
Disaster Recovery
This role enables administrators to restore mailboxes and database availability groups in an organization.
Thanks,
Nick

Scripting for Windows Server Backup for Exchange 2010

Hi,
I'm new to writing scripts and was wondering if anyone could assist with writing a script to backup an Exchange Server in a windows 2008 r2 environment. I currently use Windows Server Backup with a full VSS backup to run exchange backups, however,
each backup overwrites the previous one, and i would really like to have multiple backups. I would also like to specify backup log locations, and have emails sent upon successful backups or failed backups. I am trying to write this powershell
but cant seem to get things to work.
Thanks
Debbian

You can use PowerShell in conjunction with the Windows Backup command line utility, wbadmin.exe. The code below should help get you started. I have included the date in order to help maintain multiple back ups, but if you do more than one back up per day,
you will need to change the date format to include the time. You cannot control the built in logging of Windows Backup, but you could collect your own backup information and write that out to a text file. As far as sending emails, look into the Send-MailMessage
cmdlet including the -Attachment parameter that could send your log file with your mail message. Cheers.
$Date = Get-Date -Format 'MM-dd-yyyy'
$Path = "\\server\share\$Date"
New-Item -Path $Path -ItemType Directory | Out-Null
Start-Process wbadmin.exe -ArgumentList "start backup -backupTarget:$Path -allCritical -vssFull -quiet"

How to schedule multiple backup job through windows server backup in windows server 2008 R2

hi expert,
need your help, In my small environment I am using windows 2008 R2 as a domain controller. and installed windows server feature for backup.
Now i want to create backup at a different time.
1. System state backup at 5.00 PM on saturday only
2. finance and hr data backup on daily basis at 5.00 PM.
so how i create different job schedule through windows server backup.
Regards,
Triyambak
Regards, Triyambak

Scenario #1
The following command will create a Task Scheduler task named
DailyFolder1Backup with the start time of 23:00.
This task will run DAILY with the HIGHESTprivileges. It will run the Windows Server Backup CLI to backup
g:\folder1 to target volume
F:.
SCHTASKS /Create /SC DAILY /TN
DailyFolder1Backup /RL HIGHEST /ST 23:00/TR
"wbadmin start backup –backupTarget:F: -include:g\folder1
-vsscopy -quiet"
Scenario #2
The following command will create a Task Scheduler task named
DailyFolder2Backup with the start time of 24:00.
This task will run DAILY with the HIGHESTprivileges. It will run the Windows Server Backup CLI to backup
h:\folder2 to target volume
F:.
SCHTASKS /Create /SC DAILY /TN
DailyFolder2Backup/RL HIGHEST /ST 24:00/TR
"wbadmin start backup –backupTarget:F: -include:h:\folder2
-vsscopy -quiet"
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Can Windows Server Backup spread a single backup job across multiple disks if they are not set up as a virtual disk?

This may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find any definitive information after having done many, many searches. Short question is - can Windows Server Backup spread a single backup job across multiple disks if they are not in a storage
pool or some other RAID/JBOD structure?
Background:
I'm running Server 2012 Essentials with all Windows Updates installed. I have been backing up approx 2.8TB of data (Bare Metal Recovery, C:, S: (shared folders), and system reserved) for the past year+ onto a storage pool made up of two-2TB external
USB drives. Backup is slow (takes approx 1.5 days to complete), but generally works. Not surprisingly I was constantly getting capacity low messages so I decided to increase my backup storage pool by adding a 3TB drive and another spare 750GB drive
for a total of 7.75TB. Instead of having four separate external USB enclosures, I bot a 4-bay enclosure - Startech.com model #S3540BU33E to simplify this (or so I thought!).
The first problem I had was adding the two new drives to the existing storage pool. I think that is because the Startech uses a JMicron USB controller that reports identical uniqueid's for all drives so only one shows up in the GUI interface for creating storage
pools. After doing research on this, I set up a new storage pool and virtual disk using all four drives via Powershell and thought I was good. However, when the backup ran, it failed after filling the first drive, saying there was no remaining capacity. In
reality there were three remaining empty drives and there storage pool reported almost 5TB of avail capacity. I assumed this was due to the identical uniqueid issue so I decided to try a different tactic.
Instead of using a storage pool that combines all four disks into one virtual disk, I just added each of them to Windows Server Backup as individual drives thinking it would manage them collectively. I.e., when a drive filled up during a particular backup,
it would just start using the next drive and so on. Apparently this was a foolish assumption because the backup failed again as soon as the first disk filled up.
So now I don't know if this is still an issue with the identical uniqueid's or if Server Backup actually can't spread a single backup across multiple individual drives that aren't in a pool or other virtual disk implementation. Hence, my original question.
My guess is that it does *not* spread them across individual disks, but I just wanted to get confirmation.
Thanks

Mandy,
Thank you for following up on my question.
Unfortunately the article you referenced doesn't address what I am trying to accomplish.
The article focuses on saving the same backup job to multiple disks and rotating the disks between on and offsite for enhanced protection. However, it still requires that an individual backup job fits on a single disk.
What I am trying to determine is if a single backup job can span across more than one physical disk (during the backup process) without those physical disks being in some type of virtual disk implementation (e.g., storage pool, RAID, etc.).
Thanks,
Gerry

Server 2008 R2 Windows Server Backup. "Error in backup of Hyper-V.vhd during read: Error [0x80070001] Incorrect function.

Hello,
We are currently using Windows Server Backup to backup three Hyper-V guests running on a Windows 2008 R2 host. Two guests are running Server 2008 R2 and one is running Windows 7. I have the backups going to a dedicated external disk drive.
WSB backs up the two 2008 R2 Hyper-V guests just fine. However, when attempting to backup the Windows 7 Hyper-V guest, I receive the following error:
Error in backup of <Windows 7.vhd> during read: Error [0x80070001] Incorrect function.
I ran a "vssadmin list writers" and all the VSS writers showed "Stable" with no errors. I have plenty of space on the external drive as well. I've read this article:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/973455?wa=wsignin1.0#workaroundissue12 except that doesn't seem to be what I'm experiencing here.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Hi,
As the other 2 guests could be backed up correctly, the issue should not be the Windows Server Backup feature.
First please refer to this article:
Backing Up and Restoring Virtual Machines
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd405549(v=vs.85).aspx
Please check if all following requirements are met. Specifically please check if Integration Service is installed.
Backup (volume snapshot) Integration Service is installed and running in the child VM. The service name is "Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Requestor".
Windows 2000: Backup Integration Service is not supported.
The child VM must be in the running state.
The Snapshot File Location for the VM is set to be the same volume in the host operating system as the VHD files for the VM.
All volumes in the child VM are basic disks and there are no dynamic disks.
All disks in the child VM must use a file system that supports snapshots (for example, NTFS).
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Lost Windows Server Backup, historical backups. Backup seems to have restarted from a fresh full backup. How can I get to those old backups?

Scenario with very bad outlook:
Friday-16th, early AM. Win2008 SBS Server crashes due to RAID5 issues, bad disk. Found that server was NOT configured with hot spare and for some reason the controller had marked a 2nd disk bad..which turned out not to be the case.
Had a single external USB backup drive being fed by Windows Server Backup. Obtained support from vendor and was able to regain the RAID and start the server.
Soon became apparent that Exchange was having serious issues - edb was corrupt and not mountable. Restore edb from backup, repaired and was eventually able to mount. Then found it had Hub Transport issues. Researching that when it was noticed
NTFS events being logged at a high rate. Restarted system to repair the filesystem, which was successful.
After the FS repair, found the Exchange edb, new edb I had created to migrate mailboxes to, and public edb all 0k in size.
Restored the edb again and commenced repair, which eventually read Clean Shutdown again...but could not get it to mount. Exchange was having various issues seemingly with AD.
Changed backup time to avoid a backup that day, as did not want to back up while RAID was rebuilding - had inserted a replacement for the failed drive.
Monday/19th, was advised that much of the data was corrupt. This is an accounting firm and relies heavily on their data, especially since the last time their ext USB was rotated was Nov6 2013. They now have no year end backup, nor a backup from
post tax season 2014.
Is it possible to recover any of the historical backups prior to the full backup/restart?
Oh, and all Shadow Copies for the impacted volume/drive are gone.
Thank you.

Hi,
Please use the “Wbadmin get versions” command to check the backup versions on the server. If there is only latest shadow copy, you may not recover any of the historical backups prior to the full backup.
Backup Version and Space Management in Windows Server Backup
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/06/22/backup-version-and-space-management-in-windows-server-backup.aspx
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How are Windows Server Backup and Command Line Tools used in vCSHB installation?

How are Windows Server Backup and Command Line Tools used during the installation of vCSHB? Is it required in all types of deployments (PtoV, VtoV, PtoP)? Is it used to create the files that are put in the file share for the second node to use during vCSHB installation or is it only used during a vCSHB clone operation of a Physical to Physical deployment? Are these tools not used in some deployments?

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Check this blog entry for some more info about some problems in P2P deployment: http://www.vcoportal.de/2013/12/vmware-vcenter-server-heartbeat-restore-on-a-second-node-a-journey/

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