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Proliant ML10 gen9 SSD upgrade
I have a proliant ML10 gen9 with windows server 2012 r2 foundation installed.
The system has a software raid 1 setup (intel rst) with two 1tb HP sata hdds and has started to run very slow.
I am ...
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Virtual Tape Libraries for Microsoft Data Protection Manager - Replacement for Crystalink Firestreamer?
What VTLs do you all use to allow DPM to store off-site?
My current environment uses Microsoft DPM for all of its backups. DPM stores the backups locally just fine, but to get it to store digital ...
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Windows Server 2022 does not perform incremental backup for source data volume
Windows Server 2022 is always doing full backup and not incremental backup.
I've checked this 10 year old question Windows Server Backup, drive is doing full backup instead of incremental but there ...
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Backup software that can split files to 3 separate disks [closed]
I have 3To of storage on a RAID5 configuration, and I want to setup a regular backup of these 3To of data on external disks that I would bring to a separate physical location (my office). I have 3 ...
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What happens if the only DC fails?
I recently started an internship in System Administration and I am currently tasked with researching and potentially setting up an on Premise Active Directory in our company.
Lets say, I am running ...
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Windows Server 2019 high round-trip time low transfer bandwidth
I have two Windows Servers 2019 with a round-trip time of 88 ms between them. When I try to measure bandwidth with iperf3 I get only around 16 Mbits/sec in both directions with a single stream. To get ...
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Error 0x800706BA Restoring Windows Server 2012 from System Image
We've been running Windows Server 2012 in a VMware virtual machine for a few years now. The VM has the OS, apps, and user data on one virtual disk and automated system image backups on another virtual ...
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rdiff-backup on Windows: source from volume root, ignore $recycle.bin and "System Volume Information"
I'm trying to use rdiff-backup in Windows, using the root of a local disk as a source and a local folder on a different local disk as a destination.
rdiff-backup keeps crashing when it tries reading ...
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windows backup server (windows server 2012 R2) difference in backup dates
Windows Backup Server is doing successful backups on a shared folder at QNAP NAS.
But dates of backups on the server and dates on NAS are different.
Last backup on the server was on 04.07.2021 and it ...
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Cannot mount Win10 virtual disk (VHD) with no volumes - DISKPART fail
I'm attempting to mount a Windows Image Backup .vhdx file and give it a drive letter so that I can retrieve a file or two out of the backup. It has worked fine in the past, but now I cannot make it ...
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Windows Server Backup - Please wait
I have an annoying issue with Windows Server Backup - Please wait...
I added one RAID 5 array and reconfigured some drives and changed letters of non system drives, after which I couldn't start Server ...
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NTFS + Windows Server Backup and detecting bitrot/silent corruption
A question has come up regarding how we deal with bitrot, and if we need to do more.
We have a very simple setup; a single 4TB HDD (NTFS formatted) which is backed up to another larger HDD using ...
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How to make backup for the Local Server
I have critical server that running the local company system, that have system backup and company files and business documents with critical and important severity.
I'm planning to create a Network ...
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File History Catalog and Restoring Backup Image ... What Will Happen?
The Windows 10 File History feature stores the configuration files and catalog files both on the local C: and the File History target drive (correct me if I'm wrong please) and keeps them in sync. Is ...
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Account permissions needed to change file ownership
I have an application that needs to be able to change the owner of certain files. The application runs under a domain service account (with local admin rights to the application server, but not the ...
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BackBlaze (B2) backup software recommendation [closed]
I am looking for software that I can use on Windows Servers for file backup tasks to BackBlaze (B2) cloud.
So far I have tried Duplicati, which runs OK on small(ish) data sets, but on larger I have ...
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How to name a folder with today's date and time?
So i have this lil .bat setup
@ECHO OFF
echo %date%
Copy D:\000Back\list.txt D:\111Back\
CD D:\111Back\
copy list.txt %date%_%time%.txt
ECHO done
PAUSE
The second copy command never goes through, ...
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DiskShadow dsh script spaces end of line
I've been reading some documentation about Diskshadow and made the following dsh script as an example.
Somehow on execution every line needs an extra space at the end, is there someone that can tell ...
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Bootable one-to-one backup clone of Windows Server 2019? [closed]
The ability to make backup clones of an OS link Linux and macOS (eg, Carbon Copy Cloner, Super Duper, ChronoSync, etc.) offers wonderful peace of mind.
For years I've struggled with this seeming to ...
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How to re-route traffic for web server DR when we don't control the domain
I'm trying to figure out how I can set up a disaster recovery for clients that manage their own domains.
I have a web server.
For DR purposes, I want to replicate this server and when/if disaster ...
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The provided share path is longer than Windows Backup can support
Previously I made a backup
wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\ftpback-rbxx-xxx.xxx.net\nsxxxxxxx.ip-xxx-xxx-xx.eu\C\20191210_071757 -allCritical -systemState -quiet
Trying to restore
wbadmin ...
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Does "wbengine" of Windows Server 2019 support incremental backups when targeting network shares?
This is a follow up to things I've written down in an answer to another question:
How does Windows Image Backup decide which files to backup?
Windows/NTFS manages change journals on each volume, ...
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Why is "wbengine" of Windows Server 2008 R2 always creating new VHD files when targeting network shares?
This is a follow up to things I've written down in an answer to another question:
I'm somewhat sure that wbengine of Windows Server 2008 R2 always creates new VHD files if targeting a network share. ...
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Windows backup operators and network access
I have a windows server 2019 hosting a shared folder I need to backup. My backup server is a linux machine and I always PULL the backups instead of PUSH.
I created a "backup_user" on my windows ...
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Fix Error "0x8078015B" when doing an image backup from win 10 on samba share
I'm trying setting up backups for my computer on a samba share and getting this error on windows 10: Windows Backup encountered an error when accessing the remote shared folder. Please retry the ...
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Storageworks DAT 40 Drive Stuck, All Lights On and Not Responsive on Boot
Let me start by stating that I'm something of an amateur forced to deal with an unfamiliar matter, so sorry in advance if there's something trivial I've missed that should've been done in my ...
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wbadmin: Does -allCritical include the system state?
From the Windows IT Pro Center documentation of the wbadmin start backup option -allCritical (italics by me):
Specifies that all critical volumes (volumes that contain operating
system's state) ...
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Hyper-V Replication failing sync
I have enabled Hyper-V replication for our ERP VM between 2 Windows Server 2012 R2. Every 2 months the master server runs out of space because the replication sync fails. It creates many .AVHDX files ...
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Is it important to backup and restore DFSR/Private folder for Windows DFS replication group?
Strangely, there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of direction on this and it doesn't seem that even the backup vendors can provide a straight answer.
In a Windows DFS replication group, each server ...
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BackupPC RSync job timing out
I have a BackupPC RSync job that is not completing on a new server. The job just times out after signal ALRM. I increased the time out to 288000, but it will still time out and doesn't appear to ever ...
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How we can have the ability to build a new sharepoint server which have the same sharepoint patches installed
we have couple of sharepoint 2013/2016 farms, and they all shared these architecture :-
one sharepoint application server which have sharepoint server installed.
one database server which have the ...
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How do I manage the backup process for a VPS?
I have a platform that I would like to offer for my client. It is a SaaS platform in which I need to host it. It sounds like VPS is one way to go but
I never owned/managed a VPS so not sure how to ...
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qnap backup without creating a network share
Idea behind my approach is that crypto virusses attack every network drive they can find, if we can keep the backup drive 'hidden' than the virus cannot get to it.
I have a small bash script that ...
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windows server backup. how to restore msssql database
it's theoretical question. If i have a window server 2012 r2 which have mssql server installed. I add role windows server backup.
So can restore the database which was backuped by windows server ...
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Backup of a computer's whole network configuration
I'm now working on a system that runs on Windows 7 PCs, and makes heavy use of several Ethernet interfaces.
This system becoming complex, we now need a Backup \ Restore solution. One of the issues I ...
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Backup HDD with multiple partitions and hardware ID licenses
There is an old computer in a production. It manages specific industrial automation device. It operates on a Windows XP SP1, maybe SP2. It's motherboard may not even support boot up from USB.
Now is ...
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Using Windows Server Backup to schedule a folder backup
Is there a way to schedule a backup using Windows Server backup to use a folder only on a separate drive as its backup location?
Here's a scenario :
Folder to backup : C:\temp\files\
Schedule : ...
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Using Robocopy to search and copy directories using pattern matching
I have tried to find an answer to this but most questions related to robocopy and pattern matching are focused on excluding folders whereas my intention is to include folders.
Assuming i have the ...
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Windows Server Backup: unable to create scheduled backup job because of disc formatting error
I am trying to setup a scheduled backup in Windows Server Backup on a server 2012 R2 box. I can run through the process of creating the backup. I choose "backup to hard disk that is dedicated for ...
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P2V with a single-server domain controller
I have a small domain in my office (7 PCs) with a single DC installed physically, on a desktop running Windows Server 2012R2. All the components in the domain have static IPs - both the DC and the PCs....
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Retrieve a file from guest OS with Hyper-V tools - possible?
I have a freshly installed Hyper-V server on Windows Server 2012R2 standard edition, and a VM inside with same OS version that hosts a domain and some file-based services. The host is NOT the member ...
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ADAM (MSExchange) VSS Writer - Non-retryable error (when backing up with DPM, or makinng Hyperv checkpoint)
I have Exchange EDGE ROLE installed as VM on Hyper-v (Win 2016 std).
When DPM 2016 tries to backup that VM I have an error that it is failing, I tracked the problem to inability to make VSS snapshot ...
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Is My Understanding of Windows Bare Metal System / Images Backups vs. File Backups Correct?
So my understanding of it is like this, there are two types of backups, and they are Image Backups and Data / User File backups...
Image Backups (System Backups / System State /Disaster Recovery ...
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Tracking the amount of change data on a server volume
Scenario: I am a new admin for my company and have a single volume of 30TB (28 used) that currently has no backup configured (must be why I have this job). I am looking to at DR/offsite backup ...
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Windows Backup - Backups Deleted but Disk is not Free
I have a windows 2008 r2 server box, where i have configured weekly backups using the windows backup software, the backup disk is a iscsi shared nas disk, we had 12 backups and the disk was full, so ...
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Can I restore SQL databases from full Windows server backup if needed
I have scheduled backup and every day copies of:
bare metal recovery
system state
system reserved
local disk C:\
Backup is stored on iscsi disk. On local disk C are databases mdf with logs. In ...
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Windows Server Backup Email Notification Powershell Script
I hope everything below makes sense, any help would be much appreciated.
I'm trying to create a script that will notify me if Windows Server Backup was successful or if it failed on a list of ...
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Restore SBS 2011 from RDX harddisk cartridge "The Parameter is Incorrect (0x80070057)"
Today i got a SBS 2011 with (malicous) encrypted files from a customer. That happens frequently. What was rare was the fact that he had a very recent backup (Windows Image Backup) on a Imation RDX ...
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Back up server with multiple types of databases on a nightly basis
I have a web server running Windows Server 2012, with three main things on it:
Web stuff (html, php, etc files)
a mySQL database
a solr database
It occurred to me today that I've been so busy with ...
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Windows Server 2012 won't backup to Netapp Filer
So I've been having a bit of an issue here, and I'm having a lot of trouble determining what it is; I'm trying to configure backups for one of our servers, and whenever I attempt to do one of said ...
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