Questions tagged [wbadmin]

A Windows tool for doing Bare Metal system image backups.

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windows server backup using powershell

I want to test backups after completion by confirming that I can recover a sentinel file. We all know that a frequent backup, and later storage, copy in a different environment provides extra security. For that purpose, our backup storage server,…
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What does Virtual Disk Service error code "80070037@02000014" mean?

One of my customers has a Windows Server 2016 and uses wbadmin to do some bare metal recovery backup to some Synology NAS using SMB. This worked in the past, where "past" is some unspecified weeks/months back in time for various reasons, and doesn't…
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Do I really have to mount the external usb hdd on an SMB share to recover my Windows 10 system image?

I did a system image backup of my Windows 10 machine using a combination of wbadmin and Bareos. I wanted test restoring it, so I restored the wbadmin image files from the BareOS server to an external hdd; which restored to…
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When scheduling a backup on wbadmin the size on full server configuration is more than my internal HDD

When scheduling a wbadmin server backup on Windows Server 2019, the full server configuration option is bigger than my internal HDD, see below: I can't seem to find out why. I have been backing up without issues since December 2022. Kindly help…
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Windows Server Backup

I am under the impression that the automatic space managment for scheduled backups in Windows Server Backup (2012R2) does not delete backup sets created with "backup once". Is this impression correct?
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