SBS 2008 Wizard Backup Fail

Article from Microsoft that explains in detail about how to edit the drive letters for Windows Backup.

However, and yes I know there are a lot of free backup programs out there.  I use Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 on my Servers and Acronis TrueImage Home 2011 Plus for my home PC's.

I know they cost, but I have found that my life is a lot easier with these programs and I love Acronis Support.  They have been amazing to me and this is a shameless plug, but I do not work for Acronis.

-Tribus

forgot the link....oops

MS Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925097

This key "Backup" is not in my registry

Your KB is for SBS 2003 not for SBS 2008

Thanks

Oops...sorry about that.

Try this article then: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2006/08/29/452501.aspx

And just because I feel like posting the pertinent info here for you...

"We've had a few customers that have purchased external storage devices as backup targets for their Small Business Server 2003 customers only to find that the new drive/device is not an option as a target for the Small Business Server 2003 Backup Configuration Wizard.  The SBS Backup Configuration Wizard will only expose physical drives/tape devices as valid targets for a backup, even though the external storage device has a drive letter assigned in My Computer.  Think of how Secure Digital cards (SD cards) or Compact Flash cards (CF cards) show up in Windows XP in My Computer.  Typically they show up under "Devices with Removable Storage".  You cannot select this type of media as a target for the SBS Backup Configuration Wizard.

The workaround is to run the SBS Backup Configuration Wizard and to select a physical drive as a target (the C: drive or D: drive for example, any physical disk will do).  If you select the C: drive (the system partition, where Windows is installed) make sure to click NO to "You have chosen to back up...Do you want to change the backup location?".  Once the Backup Configuration Wizard has completed, edit the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Backup\Backup Location Path

Change it from C:\Backups\Backup Files to X:\Backups\Backup Files where X: is the drive letter assigned in My Computer to the external storage device."

-Tribus

I realize that that the above also says 2003 but I did find a few more things for you: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440850%28WS.10%29.aspx

And I also found a "Supported backup drive list" too:

I had this same issue on a 2003 SBS server and the above helped me solve my issue but apparently 2008 SBS is completely different they must have gotten rid of that registry key "hack...?"

Link to the supported drive list I found though: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/small-business-server-2003-2008-2011-external-backup-drives-compatibility-list.aspx

Thanks for your response and sorry for my english!

This key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Backup" is not available en SBS2008 registry, create?

My Backup Wizar not run, crash inmediatly ando not is posible finish connfiguration.

Best regards

No do not create the key in 2008.

MS changed the behavior to backup in 2008 completely from 2003.

I have been really searching through a lot of resources though my MS partner sites and I am really not finding much.

Which leads me back to asking you if using a 3rd party backup software is out of the question.  If it is then you will probably have to go to the supported drive list and select one of those drives.

Or you could try this:

Create a share for the drive, map a drive letter to the share then backup to the shared drive letter.

Something else random I found that may or may not explain some things to you: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2008/11/03/introducing-sbs-2008-backup.aspx

Sorry for my english!

The question is very simple.

In the regisrtry ¿How does change the default letter of the backup unit?

In SBS2008 obviously

Best reagrds.

An exception of type 'Type: Microsoft.SnapIns.Backup.UI.Proxy.BlockLevelBackupException, blbproxycmdlet, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' has occurred.
Timestamp: 03/19/2011 20:28:41
Message: Scheduler::GetRegisteredTaskInfo failed due to error: El sistema no puede encontrar la ruta especificada, (0x80070003).
.
Stack:    en Microsoft.SnapIns.Backup.UI.Proxy.HResultHelper.HRToException(Int32 hr, String op)
         en Microsoft.SnapIns.Backup.UI.Proxy.ManagedProxy.GetSchedule(ArrayList backupTimesList)
         en Microsoft.Windows.ServerBackup.Commands.WBPolicy.GetCurrentPolicy(Boolean fEdit)
         en Microsoft.Windows.ServerBackup.Commands.GetWBPolicy.ProcessRecord()
         en System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()

[10736] 110319.202842.9878: Storage: Wizard cannot verify settings.

I think this has gone beyond my level of knowledge about SBS 2008.

I am sorry but, I can't seem to help any more at this point.

I hope another expert here knows something that I do not which is very likely.

Hang in there, man.  We'll help the best we can.

Something random that I found again trying to help still....

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/nb-NO/windowsbackup/thread/e9db58f2-6ae6-479f-80ca-f2831434262b

This relates to your specific issue that you posted in your last post and mentions a problem with the VSS service.  The solution was to call MS....