Backup Issues in SBS2011

We had a very similar issue, only that we use BackupAssist as we have a virtual server environment.

We also experienced a failure the first time it was run, however we simply re-ran it again and it succeeded on the second attempt.

We did it a time when there were very few users logged on.

I hope it works for you. Try it a few times in succession, just to be sure!!!

I have already  tried 7 x times.
Even after a fresh restart.
:(

Were they in succession, that is, while the PSConfig.exe window was still open and straight after the first failure? Was it 7 times, one after the other?

No diffrent days.
I'll do a couple one after the other.

Olaf

Try at least 3 or 4 times, to be totally sure. Seems ridiculous, but it worked for us!

5 times, only me logged on.
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I have been going over my notes on this issue, and I had a link bookmarked that I never bothered trying.

See if this helps: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/e883a0fc-2e0b-41f6-96c9-465d7fd1b48d/

There must be a solution!

Any progress on this issue? Did you manage to try the steps in the link I posted?

Regards.

Here is a link to a blog that discusses clearing the cache.ini file: http://lindachapman.blogspot.com/2011/07/sharepoint-2010-how-to-clear-cacheini.html

Here is another link that also discusses clearing the cache.ini file: http://latenightsp.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/sharepoint-config-cache/

Hopefully this will enable you to proceed with the inplace upgrade of Sharepoint, to get your backups working again.

Regards.

Hi Jaw,
Flushed the cache. Tried the in place Upgrade. Same result.
Olaf
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This SBS is an upgrade from my previous SBS2008.
Companyweb had a few sub sites called http://companyweb/IT. They are now present on the sbs2011. How can I delete them?
Can't be deleted from Sharepoint Central admin?
I am assuming these are the sites stopping e upgrade from succeeding.
I tried a manual delete. See attached.
Olaf
 

I doubt that this would be causing the upgrade to fail.

I am assuming that the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1 has been installed onto this server. Is this correct?

If so, as mentioned in the following article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/07/06/potential-issues-after-installing-sharepoint-foundation-2010-sp1.aspx you should determine if you need to complete the update process with PSCONFIG.

From the article:
If the result is True, then the update process with PSCONFIG is required.

If not, then it looks like there are other issues going on. What bothers me is that the errors you are getting are identical to the errors that we experienced. These were simply resolved by running the command twice, one immediately after the other.

This is given me the shhhhhhts.
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OK. Take a deep breath.

Has SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1been installed onto this server?

It has.
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What are the results when you follow the "Check upgrade status" link in the Central Administration console?

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Looks like at one point it succeeded!!!

What are the errors you are getting in the server application log when you say it "stopped backing up due to a VSS issue"?

Is it something like the following:
Could you provide further details about the backups that are failing?

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The backup operation that failed looks like it has occurred ~15 mins prior to the succeeded message in Central Administration > Upgrade status.

Were these the most recent errors in the application event log?

I found an article that may be helpful: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/7d6fd770-945c-4120-8607-f61813ba4fcd/

The SBS "diva", Susan Bradley has a fair bit of input in this article. I haven't had time to read the article in depth, but will get around to studying it shortly.

Going by the Upgrade status, and the False result from the SharePoint Management Shell command line, I think we can assume at this point that Sharepoint Foundation has been upgraded. Although, I don't know what impact running the PSCONFIG command has on SharePoint if it has already been upgraded???

Olaf,

Have you tried any backups since my last post?

I have studied the link in my last post and this is chiefly concerned about post installation errors. Our server application log is full of the VSS "Warnings" Event ID 8230, and as Microsoft points out here, they can be safely ignored.

Could you please have a look at the server application log and list the most recent errors, over the last 24 hours?

Hopefully, the Event ID 70 errors have cleared. If not, then you will need to check whether an upgrade is required. I know we've already done this, but let's just keep at it:
Post back with the results.

(You may be interested to know that I was checking our server, since I last posted, and an upgrade was required. Probably due to a whole list of patches that were installed last week. The upgrade went smoothly the first time.)

Hi Jaw,

Much appreciated.
I have about 10 x sbs2011 running out there and mine is he only one with isues.
I am thinking it might be a hardware issue. (This is a Dell...say no more).
Might have to start again.
Olaf
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If it is any comfort, others (although very few it would seem) have had persistent issues with the SharePoint SP1 upgrade command.

Would you be willing to work through the following article http://www.msprojectnow.com/DesktopModules/SunBlog/Handlers/Print.aspx?entryid=294 ???

There appears to some similarities with the errors in your original post.

Been there done that.
Even compared web config files with other servers. All seems OK.
Even read an article saying to copy web config to other dir before update...no go either.
It would be interesting to find out if there is any consistency in hardware regarding failed update?
Olaf

Just posted this on Technet.
Will see what happens.
Thanks for trying.
Olaf

Still no resolve but thanks for your time.
Olaf

Getting similar problems and gone through loads of documents and got nowhere.  Hoping someone can shed some light on this please.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN>PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force
SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard version 14.0.6009.1000. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2010. All rights reserved.

Performing configuration task 1 of 4
Initializing SharePoint Products upgrade...

Waiting to get a lock to upgrade the farm.

Successfully initialized SharePoint Products upgrade.

Performing configuration task 2 of 4
Initiating the upgrade sequence...

Successfully initiated the upgrade sequence.

Performing configuration task 3 of 4
Upgrading SharePoint Products...

100.00%

Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products.

An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException was thrown.
  Additional exception information: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Se
rver Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.

Total number of configuration settings run: 3
Total number of successful configuration settings: 2
Total number of unsuccessful configuration settings: 1
Successfully stopped the configuration of SharePoint Products.
Configuration of SharePoint Products failed.  Configuration must be performed be
fore you use SharePoint Products.  For further details, see the diagnostic log located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\1
4\LOGS\PSCDiagnostics_1_20_2013_23_53_35_708_63478246.log and the application event log.


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Begin trace logging for SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard.  Version 14.0.6009.1000

01/20/2013 23:54:05  9  WRN            Failed to add the service connection point for this farm
01/20/2013 23:54:05  9  WRN            Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The object LDAP://CN=Microsoft SharePoint Products,CN=System,DC=johnmhayes,DC=local doesn't exist in the directory.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPServiceConnectionPoint.Ensure(String serviceBindingInformation)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()

01/20/2013 23:54:33  9  ERR            Task upgrade has failed with an unknown exception
01/20/2013 23:54:33  9  ERR            Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.CheckPoint()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.LogEnd()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()
tion
01/20/2013 23:54:33  9  ERR            An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.CheckPoint()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.LogEnd()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

01/20/2013 23:54:33  9  ERR              Task upgrade has failed
01/20/2013 23:54:33  9  INF              friendlyMessage for task upgrade is An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
01/20/2013 23:54:33  9  INF              debugMessage for task upgrade is An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.CheckPoint()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.LogEnd()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

01/20/2013 23:54:33  1  ERR          Task upgrade SharePoint Products failed, so stopping execution of the engine

01/20/2013 23:54:33  1  ERR          Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products.
An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException was thrown.  Additional exception information: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException: Upgrade completed with errors.  Review the upgrade log file located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\Upgrade-20130120-235348-70.log.  The number of errors and warnings is listed at the end of the upgrade log file.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.CheckPoint()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeSession.LogEnd()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeTask.Run()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

01/20/2013 23:54:33  1  ERR          One or more configuration tasks has failed or some tasks were not run

01/20/2013 23:54:33  1  ERR        One or more configuration tasks has failed to execute

01/20/2013 23:54:33  1  ERR          Configuration of SharePoint Products failed.  Configuration must be performed in order for this product to operate properly.  To diagnose the problem, review the extended error information located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS\PSCDiagnostics_1_20_2013_23_53_35_708_63478246.log, fix the problem, and run this configuration wizard again.

01/20/2013 23:54:33  1  ERR      Post setup configuration was not run successfully when using the command line task driver module