{"id":129602,"date":"2009-12-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1652419620964346731.post-5898899188589104724"},"modified":"2009-12-11T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:00:00","slug":"getting-backup-exec-to-work-with-windows-server-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129602","title":{"rendered":"Getting Backup Exec To Work with Windows Server 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read yesterday\u2019s article you know I am working to get the kinks out of our Backup Exec deployment. My goal is to have a smooth, self sufficient backup server running, that I only need to look at when an alert tells me something is wrong rather than daily. I know daily checks are a good thing, but I would rather stare at a bunch of successes than failures.<\/p>\n<p>One of the errors I was seeing was on our Windows Server 2008 R2 servers. In fact, when you install the agent you get a warning about compatibility problems. Does that mean Backup Exec won\u2019t back up Windows Server 2008 R2? Not in this case.<\/p>\n<p>The error I was seeing was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">V-79-57344-65225 &#8211; A failure occurred accessing the Writer metadata. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">V-79-57344-65225 &#8211; AOFO: Initialization failure on: &quot;System?State&quot;. Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Snapshot provider error (0xE000FEC9): A failure occurred accessing the Writer metadata. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Check the Windows Event Viewer for details.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At first I thought that maybe it was related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bauer-power.net\/2009\/10\/error-backing-up-shadow-copy-and-system_02.html\" >VSS issues I blogged about a few months ago<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t related at all as the writer status was fine. No the problem is with the 100MB System Reserved partition windows creates when you install it. <\/p>\n<p>To get the error to go away all you have to do is assign that partition a drive letter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_jLaEIqL6T8Y\/SyF_OI8vNtI\/AAAAAAAACOA\/QVA-VpmS5Qk\/s1600-h\/driveletter%5B8%5D.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"drive letter system reserved\" border=\"0\" alt=\"drive letter system reserved\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_jLaEIqL6T8Y\/SyF_OntBxkI\/AAAAAAAACOE\/nxnrk2lUTro\/driveletter_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800\" width=\"420\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>I know! So simple it almost makes you want to puke right? What? Am I the only one? Okay, sorry then. Still, it is pretty awesome how easy it is to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Know of any other 2008 R2 tricks for backup exec? 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My goal is to have a smooth, self sufficient backup server running, that I only need to look at when an alert tells me something is wrong rather than daily. 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