Windows Image Restore Woes
Man it is hard to restore a computer backup from a Windows Backup image. Especially if you are trying to restore to a new Hyper-V virtual machine. Here are a …
Man it is hard to restore a computer backup from a Windows Backup image. Especially if you are trying to restore to a new Hyper-V virtual machine. Here are a …
I’m a big believer of getting image-based backups of all computers, including desktops. Unfortunately, after a full-system restore, it seems that more often than not, the machine fails to boot.
In testing an Essentials Client Restore under Hyper-V, the restore kept failing. It would show the server name, prompt for the username and password, but then it would fail with …
This is arguably the most boring post I’ve ever written. No graphics, lots of references to my own unique environment. But this is the real world of backup and recovery …
Once a year, I test restoring a server to a desktop. The server is backed up with standard Windows Backup. The idea is to confirm that if the server went …
I try to do a server restore test once a year. Previous tests are blogged in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 (which includes 2018). This year I …
If you rename a user under Windows 10 following a procedure like this, your Windows 7 backup may start failing, unable to find files from the previous username. In the …
I’m running Veeam Free 3.0.1.1039 on a Server 2016 running SQL Server 2016. Every time the backup runs, I see MSSQLSERVER event ID 3041 in the Application event log: “BACKUP …
I’m using SolarWinds backup at a client site. A few notes:
Windows Server 2016 backups are completing with the warning “There was a failure compacting the virtual hard disk on the backup location. Detailed error: A device attached to the system …