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Unanswered Windows Server Backup - failing

  • Sunday, December 30, 2012 6:43 PM
     
     
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    SBS2008 SP2

    External 2 TB USB disk drive -> backup device

    My daily backup is failing. I removed the USB drive and mounted on another system and it gave drive letter and could open folders. Remounted on SBS2008 server

    I open system-> manage-> Disk management and saw the external USB drive but it dos have a drive letter assigned to it.

    I reran Server backup wizard from SBS console and it saw the external drive and I just changed the daily time. It ran to completion.

    Last night I got another failed backup. Details are Creation of the shared protection point timed out.

    What is occurring and how do I fix it? It was working for some time.

    THX

    John Lenz

     

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  • Monday, December 31, 2012 12:41 AM
     
     
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    What is the size of shadow copies area for each drive server has? Is it unlimited or set to certain value? If it's a value then set them all to unlimited and attempt backup again.
     
  • Tuesday, January 01, 2013 8:48 AM
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    Hi John,

    Please try a manually backup (with command line if possible) and see if there is any error occurs. If so, copy them in your reply for further discussion.

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  • Tuesday, January 01, 2013 3:57 PM
     
     
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    I will try tomorrow. Happy New Year

    John Lenz

     
  • Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:05 AM
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    Is there any progess? If any error occurs please just share with us.

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  • Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:29 PM
     
     
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    Here is my status:

    1. I checked the shadow settings and made unlimited

    2. ran manual backup -> failed

    I checked log and found Bad Block" on DRV0. Since New Years day was idle, I ran chkdsk on DRV0 (C Drive) and the external USB device (9 hours). The C drive had file system errors that were corrected.

    Yesterday, I performed a manual backup to successful completion.  This morning, the regularly scheduled back again failed. I am investigating the logs to see what happened. I found Volume Shadow Copy operation failed with error code '2155348075'.

    John Lenz


    • Edited by JohnLenz Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:33 PM
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  • Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:58 PM
     
     
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    I reviewed disk configuration and saw that I had shadow on the C drive. It has no shares. I removed C drive from shadow list. I now have had one cycle (daily) of successful backup of C Drive (the SBS O/S). I check the next few days to see if it is sustainable and post results.

    John Lenz