Hi, I have a recurring issue when using Azure Backup client. I use it to backup 8 servers for a customer, file and system backup.

Almost everytime we have run windows updates on the servers (2 times a month), we get backup warnings on random servers. These warnings can last for a couple of days or weeks. The warning is usually "Data failure", and the issue is the c:\windows\winsxs folder, random areas in this folder.

I cannot really exclude the winsxs folder, since it is important if a restore is needed.

At the moment I have setup the backup notifications to be sent to my own email adress, I cannot setup the customer email adress as long as we keep getting all these random errors.

Anyone else having this issue, and maybe a solution for the issue?

I'm trying to reduce the amount of storage space used by some of our backups. As part of this, I've reduced the retention period on some from 12 months to 6. However, this has not made any difference to the total space consumed, presumably because backups already created will be retained for 12 months as previously configured.

I'd rather not delete the entire vault and start again, but that seems to be the only option available.

Is there any way of deleting restore points from retention?

Want to move file from Azure VM  to Azure storage Account.

Any file, using portal or script.

Hello,

I am using Veeam free edition to backup 3 physical servers (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter).  I am looking to find an off-site storage solution that I can add as a network location on my servers, so that Veeam can detect it.  If anyone could help me with this, that would be great.

Please don't suggest using Windows Backup with Azure, I did that in the past and was not a huge fan of it.

Edit: After looking a bit further and talking to Azure Support, I have decided to look into "Blob Blocks", however, I can not find where Blob Blocks is located in the Marketplace.  If anyone could point me in the direction of these blocks, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Joe

Hello,

I do full backups and diff backups with Ola Hallengren solution to blob storage. I get the following error message: 

Msg 3035, Sev 16, State 1, Line 1 : Cannot perform a differential backup for database "<database>", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option. [SQLSTATE 42000]

The first full backup fixes the issue. 
in the errorlog i see the following events:

/// azure managed backup stun (probably making snapshot in vm)
2020-02-02 20:42:09.77 spid168     I/O is frozen on database <database>. No user action is required. However, if I/O is not resumed promptly, you could cancel the backup.
/// end stun (snapshot is made)
2020-02-02 20:42:11.07 spid169     I/O was resumed on <database>. No user action is required.
/// managed backup starts
2020-02-02 20:42:11.10 Backup      Database backed up. Database: <database>, creation date(time): 2019/10/21(11:20:59), pages dumped: 20499, first LSN: 50653:1736:49, last LSN: 50653:1776:1, number of dump devices: 1, device information: (FILE=1, TYPE=VIRTUAL_DEVICE: {'{C1234567F-7AC6-1234-ABCD-073C7342FE96}10'}). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
/// managed backup starts
2020-02-02 20:42:11.29 Backup      BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 0 pages in 4.136 seconds (0.000 MB/sec).
/// regular backups fail:
2020-02-02 20:45:00.90 Backup      Error: 3041, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2020-02-02 20:45:00.90 Backup      BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE <database> WITH DIFFERENTIAL. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.
///subsequent differentials fail 
2020-02-03 01:45:00.40 Backup      Error: 3041, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2020-02-03 01:45:00.40 Backup      BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE <database> WITH DIFFERENTIAL. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.

/// errorlog from backupsolution (ola ahllengren)
Date and time: 2020-02-02 20:45:00 [SQLSTATE 01000]
Command: BACKUP DATABASE [<database>] TO URL = N'https://<name>.blob.core.windows.net/<folder>/<servername>/<database>/DIFF/<servername>_<database>_DIFF_20200202_204500.bak' WITH NO_CHECKSUM, COMPRESSION, DIFFERENTIAL, CREDENTIAL = N'<credentialname>' [SQLSTATE 01000]
Msg 3035, Sev 16, State 1, Line 1 : Cannot perform a differential backup for database "<database>", because a current database backup does not exist. Perform a full database backup by reissuing BACKUP DATABASE, omitting the WITH DIFFERENTIAL option. [SQLSTATE 42000]
Msg 3013, Sev 16, State 1, Line 1 : BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000]
Outcome: Failed [SQLSTATE 01000]

I tried to do the following

/// managed backup master switch (on/off)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/managed-backup-sp-backup-master-switch-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

/// result running query on production:
Use msdb;  
GO  
EXEC managed_backup.sp_backup_master_switch @new_state=0;  
Go 
/*
Msg 2812, Level 16, State 62, Line 4
Could not find stored procedure 'managed_backup.sp_backup_master_switch'.
*/

I looked into the portal to check automated backup settings:
there is starts with some graphs and used data storage, a message:
There was a problem getting the status of SQL Server on the VM. Please try again after a few minutes.
then 
Automated Backup is currently disabled due to a change in backup settings via SQL Server Managed Backup. When you enable automated backup, your managed backup settings will be overridden.
which makes me wonder if the vm is missing something. (hence the getting status error)

I did not find the missing managed_backup.* procedures in the msdb. 
(i can device several solutions that in the end fix my problem, but i want to understand what is gone wrong. )
any thoughts an where to start?

Paul Fijma

I wanted to add some new databases to the list of backed up objects by our MABS instance, however I've noticed something odd.

The console would display old, no longer existing databases in the databases available for backup on our SQL server. There's a "Refresh" button that should, potentially, clear some cache... but it's grayed out.

Just for testing I attempted to back up a non-existing database... and sure enough, I got an error when calculating the required disk space.

How do I force MABS to refresh the list of databases?

¿Is supported a backup snapshot of linux virtual machine(Debian 9) with OS in lvm?, currently is failing with the error: Some mount point is not accessible.

I used Azure Backup Agent (MARS) for backup on-premises Files and Folders. After testing i did „Stop a Scheduled Backup“ in the Azure Backup Agent. This was 3 weeks ago, so there are no Backup Items anymore. Now I can’t delete the Protected Server in the Recovery Service Vault! The Delete Button is greyed out. If i want to delete the Recovery Services vault there comes the error:

Hi all, 

Will azure advisor gives list of VM which is protected by Azure back up?

I know it gives list which are not protected, but just wondering, if they give protected vm list as well?

Regards

Saranya

How many VM's should be placed into a backup policy

I know we can have 1000 machines within a vault, but what about the policy

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I am doing a file & folder backup for my client on premises to Azure of about 1.7TB. the network is stable and the Job was started on Friday but till now we haven't been able to backup. was asking how can i see the amount of data that has been backed up?, how can i troubleshoot and know the problem?

after running the  az backup job list  --resource-group 

it said the job is in progress but 4 jobs after it failed, what can i do to see the status of that one Job how many data has it taken



Hello we are setting up to backup our O365 environment up to backup to our Microsoft Azure platform. We needed confirmation that when backing up O365 to Azure the data never travels over the internet, but only on microsofts backbone? Thus if we backed up locally to a device on our networker, would the data pass thru the internet?

https://twitter.com/Detroit_DID/status/1216804805773012995?s=20

Regards,

Ryan Moore

Backup and Recovery Enginner

AlixPartners LLP

Hi,

I'm using Azure VMs backup with encrypted disks but this point Azure backup do not support file/folder restore for encypted VMs. Restoring those VMs disks and then creating VM from those disks works fine.

Are there any prefered methods to restore file/folder using Azure backup while using encrypted disks that could be implemented easily to hundreds of VMs? Only thing that I could came up with is restore the disk and attach them to vm and then move files/folder from restored disk to existing vm. But IMO that is alot of work for just few files/folder.

Any thoughts? 

Hello Team

We got email from Microsoft Azure as 

Upgrade your AKS Kubernetes version before 27 February 2020

You're receiving this email because you are using the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

We detected that one or more AKS clusters for the Subscription ID(s) listed in theAccount Information section are using Kubernetes v1.13 or lower. AKS will be retiring v1.13 on 27 February 2020. To stay within supported versions and SLO please upgrade your clusters to 1.14 or higher.

How to Upgrade AKS Kubernetes version?

• Premium Azure Files storage account + File Share created
• Recovery Vault created
• Vault Backup policy created
• Attempt to create backup for Azure File share fails with "Microsoft Azure Backup encountered an internal error."
• Deployed to canadacentral + eastus - supports Premium Files + Backup
• Works successfully via the Portal - assume it has something to do with the Vault "registering" + refreshing itself according to the activity log

Find below - template:

Hello.

I'm using Azure Cloud now. 

I have VMs in my account.

But, from now the VMs must be operated in another account.

In other words, I would like to move my VMs to another account in the whole.

How can I do?

thx.

I am currently working on an Azure Powershell Script that retrieves the names of the Recovery Service Vaults, the protected VMs, as well as the current size of the vault.

However, I am unable to retrieve from Powershell the current size of the vault that stores the backups, which is available on the Azure portal 

Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesBackupProperty only gives the BackupStorageRedundancy Property, but not the size. Neither the vault data (Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVault), the storage context (Get-AzureRmRecoveryServicesVaultContext), the backup container (Get-AzureRmRecoveryBackupContainer), nor the backup item (Get-AzureRmRecoveryBackupItem) seems to have the size property I need.

Is this option implemented in Azure Powershell yet? If yes, which cmdlet gives me access to this data? If not, when will this be implemented?

A couple of days ago, we have set up MARS version 2.0.9170.0 on our new machine to back up folder D:\Data\Backup every night.

Every backup job so far has completed with warnings.

The LastBackupFailedFiles_{datetime}.txt file always contains a list of the same errors for a changing number of files:

DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.phaseroots
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.fncache
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.phaseroots
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.fncache
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.fncache
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.phaseroots
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\store\undo.backup.phaseroots
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
DATA FAILURE		0x80070002 	D:\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks

In the CBEngine{count}.errlog files, the lines containing 0x80070002 for one of the files above seem to be:

fsutils.cpp(4236)		WARNING	Hr: = [0x80070002] Unable to GetFileAttributes for \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
fsutils.cpp(4236)		WARNING	Hr: = [0x80070002] Unable to GetFileAttributes for \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
filerenamedeletewriter.cpp(78)	[0000000028A5A460]	WARNING	Parameter: [0x80070002], FilePath = \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks
filerenamedeletewriter.cpp(78)	[0000000028A5A460]	WARNING	Failed: Hr: = [0x80070002] : Encountered Failure: : lVal : OpenFileHandle(pstrFilePath, GetFileAccessFlagsForCreate() | ( 0x0100 ), 0x02000000 | 0x00200000, 3, pWriterOptions, pDefaultSecurityAttributes)
dsmfsenumerator.cpp(152)	[000000001EABE9A0]	WARNING	Failed: Hr: = [0x80070002] FindFirstFile failed For Dir:\\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede
metadatawriteriterator.cpp(415)	[000000001BAAE070]	NORMAL	Hr: = [0x80070002] DumpFileCatalogRecordsForRename failed, FilePath - \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede.
dsmfsenumerator.cpp(153)	[000000001EABE9A0]	WARNING	Failed: Hr: = [0x80070002] : FindFirstFile failed For Dir:\\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede
metadatawriteriterator.cpp(393)		WARNING	Failed: Hr: = [0x80070002] : Failed to find file: \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede
fsutils.cpp(4236)		WARNING	Hr: = [0x80070002] Unable to GetFileAttributes for \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede
fsutils.cpp(4236)		WARNING	Hr: = [0x80070002] Unable to GetFileAttributes for \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede
fsutils.cpp(4236)		WARNING	Hr: = [0x80070002] Unable to GetFileAttributes for \\?\Volume{...REDACTED...}\Data\Backup\HG\Clones\...REDACTED...\.hg\undo.backup.bookmarks-dd17cede

I have added exclusion rules for the MARS folders/files in Windows Defender as suggested here.

And I have manually started the script which creates the files to be backed up, and checked with ProcessExplorer that there is no process left having a lock or a handle on these files.

Also file access permissions should be no issue, as there are lots of other files in those specific subdirectories which MARS was able to backup.

Could you please help me fix this issue? Thank you.