calculating size of instances
I have a server with 6TB of disk space, but only 2 TB of data. Is this 4 instances or 12 instances? Jim
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I use Azure Backup to back up my wife's Windows 10 laptop to a recovery services vault in Azure (classic, because ARM wasn't available when this was set up). If I look in Azure, I can see the protected...
View ArticleAzure Backup Unable to to Create Snapshot 0X186C2
We are trying to backup a Physical Server using Azure Backup, We keep getting an error 0x186C2 unable to create snapshots. The Initial setup was clean no issues. We are able to to Normal Snapshots of...
View ArticleAzure IAAS VM Backup Hanging in Transfer Data to Vault Step
Hi,I've had backups running for now for over 8 hours for 2 VM's. Snapshot occurred in just a few mins, however, Transfer Step has been running much longer than expected. This happened a few days ago...
View ArticleHow to best calculate and predict data consumption for incremental backups...
We currently are studying Azure backup for some of our DEV servers, however some questions have remained.Currently our daily backups are set to a 7 days retention policy. Weekly backups, however, only...
View ArticleW2012R2 - Azure Backup - Its own Snapshot = high disk usage
Hi,we installed the Agent and then start the first Backup after schedule it, users complain slow network performance, looking from Resources Monitor we found 'system' process doing snapshot for...
View Articlebackup finished with errors
Hello Azure ExpertsRunning Azure BAckup on a 2012 server. It was working fine until I installed a required patch/update. Now I'm getting the following message in Azure Backup:"Job completed with...
View ArticleWAImportExport - Close files prior to initial backup
I wish to use the import/export tool to create an initial backup of our server for physical transport and upload to the Azure servers.The application reports that it cannot backup some files (client...
View ArticleChange simultaneous Online Recovery Point jobs ?
Within MABS, is it possible to change the # of simultaneous Online Recovery Point jobs? Right now it appears to be set at 8, which mirrors HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection...
View ArticleHelp Please !!! - Hit by DMA Locker before uploading Blobs to Azure Console
I have a client who has been hit by !DMA Locker 3.0 , all the data has been locked.I was in the process of getting his data to Azure Cloud Backup when he got hit.I was mid process , as in I had an...
View ArticleAzure Backup Error -2145124329 Upon Installing Azure Backup Agent
Hi,We were hoping to get some clarity as to whether or not SBS 2011 server standard will be support with Azure Backup.Currently we are unable to install the Azure Backup Agent on said server, with the...
View ArticleHow to integrate Symantec Netbackup (On-premises) backup to Microsoft Azure...
Hi,I am using Netbackup solution in On-Premises. Is there a way to integrate with Azure Backup Service to Netbackup. I know that only SCDPM supports Azure Backup. Whether we have any integration tools...
View ArticleBackup with Uranium Backup
Hello I'm trying Uranium Backup to make a cloud backup in Azure. In Azure I created a storage account LRS BLOB and the backup works properly. My question is: at each backup the old files are replaced,...
View ArticleError 812 when installing Azure Backup Server
I can’t install Azure Backup server. After install the SQL and the Azure agent the installation failed with this error: Report configuration failed. Verify that SQL Server Reporting Services is...
View ArticleUnregister Backup Management Servers in new Azure Portal
I'm trying to delete an Azure Recovery Services vault (new portal), but there is still a Backup Management Server registered with it. How can I unregister this server, or delete the vault? I have no...
View ArticleAzure backup scheduled with windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
I Have a windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with azure agent backup installed. I have scheduled a daily backup for 8:00hrs but it seems that it's not working. The manual backup run correctly.How can I to look...
View ArticleBackup Fails : 0x08174
We are trying to backup a volume but the job fails. Volume is 10TB, used 7TB.Error: Microsoft Azure Backup failed to access the shadow copy because of inadequate disk space on the volume. Retry the...
View ArticleAzure Recovery Services Agent won't start
After completing several successful backups over a couple of weeks, two servers stopped backing up a day apart from each other. When trying to startup the Azure Recovery application on each server to...
View ArticleBackup on premise running VM
Azure backup service provides two agents: VM agent and backup agent. Backup agent is used to backup "files and folders" and not really a running VM.VM agent can backup a running VM too BUT it can be...
View ArticleOn Premise Virtual Machine backup to Azure
We have a 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster and we use System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 update rollup 10 for backups. I would like to backup some on premise virtual machines to our Azure backup...
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