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Server 2012 Hosting 2 VM's, backups fail
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• We have Windows 2012 Server hosting 2 VMs - Domain Controller & RDS. We have been doing Windows Server Backup incremental and have an ongoing issue with scheduled backups each night. The backup shows completed with warnings and generates 2 log files.
The first log files shows:
Backup of volume \\?\Volume{5d46f853-5db2-1
Backup of volume C: succeeded.
Backup of volume F: succeeded.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-F
Component: ACBCD71E-A8CA-4672-B951-52
Caption : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLRDS1
Logical Path:
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-F
Component: Host Component
Caption : Host Component
Logical Path:
The 2nd log file more often than not shows:
Backup of volume E: has failed. Backup failed as shadow copy on source volume got deleted. This might caused by high write activity on the volume. Please retry the backup. If the issue persists consider increasing shadow copy storage using 'VSSADMIN Resize ShadowStorage' command.
Error in backup of E:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-F
Component: 2B4A9541-C88B-442E-9A7A-6D
Caption : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLDC1
Logical Path:
Error : 8078010D
Error Message : Enumeration of the files failed.
Detailed Error : 80070003
Detailed Error Message : (null)
We had been getting a successful backup once or twice a week which showed completed (with no mentioned of warnings) but now it regularly shows completed with warnings as noted above.
We did a manual full backup of the DC to a different external drive a few days ago and that completed without warnings and the backup shows: E: Completed 63.38 Full - VSS Copy Backup Successful, 8/27/13 3:35 PM - 4:43 PM. Data Transferred 63.38
On a side note, we can view the logs in the windows/logs/windowsserver
Any idea as to why this is failing during the scheduled backups? This hosts a database that we need to have regular successful backups.
• We have Windows 2012 Server hosting 2 VMs - Domain Controller & RDS. We have been doing Windows Server Backup incremental and have an ongoing issue with scheduled backups each night. The backup shows completed with warnings and generates 2 log files.
The first log files shows:
Backup of volume \\?\Volume{5d46f853-5db2-1
Backup of volume C: succeeded.
Backup of volume F: succeeded.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-F
Component: ACBCD71E-A8CA-4672-B951-52
Caption : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLRDS1
Logical Path:
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-F
Component: Host Component
Caption : Host Component
Logical Path:
The 2nd log file more often than not shows:
Backup of volume E: has failed. Backup failed as shadow copy on source volume got deleted. This might caused by high write activity on the volume. Please retry the backup. If the issue persists consider increasing shadow copy storage using 'VSSADMIN Resize ShadowStorage' command.
Error in backup of E:\ during enumerate: Error [0x80070003] The system cannot find the path specified.
Application backup
Writer Id: {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-F
Component: 2B4A9541-C88B-442E-9A7A-6D
Caption : Backup Using Child Partition Snapshot\FMLDC1
Logical Path:
Error : 8078010D
Error Message : Enumeration of the files failed.
Detailed Error : 80070003
Detailed Error Message : (null)
We had been getting a successful backup once or twice a week which showed completed (with no mentioned of warnings) but now it regularly shows completed with warnings as noted above.
We did a manual full backup of the DC to a different external drive a few days ago and that completed without warnings and the backup shows: E: Completed 63.38 Full - VSS Copy Backup Successful, 8/27/13 3:35 PM - 4:43 PM. Data Transferred 63.38
On a side note, we can view the logs in the windows/logs/windowsserver
Any idea as to why this is failing during the scheduled backups? This hosts a database that we need to have regular successful backups.
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Unfortunately, this worked for about a week and then it started to fail again with the same error and it has been hit and miss since then. Once we found the time of the VM was off and corrected that and got a successful backup the following day. The very next day, it was back to failing. We continued to check the time and it has not been off again but the backups continue to fail on a regular basis. Have not had a successful backup in a week now. Anyone have any other ideas on what the problem might be?
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The final resolution was adding an additional hard drive for VSS copies during backup. Since we did that, the backups have been consistently successful.
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