WSE 2012 R2 Backup keeps failing on new hardwware

Question

Greetings,
After completely rebuilding my WSE 2012 R2 with Update box on new hardware (server class this time) I find I am unable to get Windows Backup to run. It confiures just fine, but continuously fails when attempting the backup itself.
Any suggestions as to where to look or what may be wrong?  I am using the same external drive dock as before when everything worked fine, but now cannot backup the server.
Please help,
Bob Hessenauer

Answer 1

All,
Actually the issue came down to something so simple we seem to alwayy7s forget it (not that the error messages were helpful in this case).  The problem here was a bad USB cable going from the server to the external dock, once that was replaced with
a new cable everything flew and I am happy to report that backups are running without a hitch.
Let this be a lesson to all - check your cables and replace them if they are getting old or you start getting odd errors with the devices associated with them.  Had I done this in the beginning I would have saved myself and an MS Engineer several hours
of troubleshooting that was totally unnecessary7.
To Microsoft - Try the simple answers first,. See if a new cable is available and solves the problem when dealing with external devices and you can save a ton of time and effort.
Hope this helps,
Bob Hessenauer