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WBAdmin is a Windows command-line utility used to perform backups and restores of operating systems, drive volumes, files, folders, and applications.

WBAdmin is a command-line utility built into Windows since Windows Vista / Server 2008. The command is used to perform backups and restores of operating systems, drive volumes, files, folders, and applications from a command-line interface.

WBAdmin replaces the previous Microsoft Windows Backup command-line utility, NTBackup, which came built into Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It is the command-line version of Backup and Restore.

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Multiple USB backup targets with Windows Server Backup

I'm trying to add multiple USB external disk targets to a Windows Server 2012 Backup schedule. Having gone through the steps in the GUI to add an additional target, the process fails with the error The system cannot find the path specified. I…
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How to restart automatically the server after the backup is done

I would like to restart my server once the backup job is done. I launch the backup job at the commande line using wbadmin start backup [options] This command only starts backup and exits. Therefore it is not possible to use something like this,…
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Windows Server wbadmin recover with commas

I want to do a recovery of files with commas in their names from the command line, ala: wbadmin start recovery -version:10/01/2013-12:00 -itemType:File -overwite:Overwrite -quiet "-Items:C:\Path\To\File, With Comma.txt,C:\Path\To\File 2, With…
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server 2008 r2 - wbadmin systemstatebackup - system writer not found in the backup

I am trying to manually run a systemstatebackup command on my server 2008 r2 box and I am getting an error code '2155347997' when I view the backup event log details. The command line tells me that I have log files written to the…
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Tidy up old Windows Server Backup snapshots

I'm running wbadmin from a scheduled job, backing up my C: and D: drives to my E: and (I believe!) including the system state: wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:e: -include:c:,d: -allCritical -noVerify -quiet I'd like to delete old backups, but…
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Windows 2016 incremental backup to network share

I`m new to Windows 2016 Server. Is there a way to make an incremental backup to network share using native backup software? I found only one way to do this - create a virtual hard drive file. Is this a good idea? I'm afraid that the file will break
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Windows Server Backup not working on scheduled task but working with the "Backup Once"

I'm trying to create Backup Schedule from my local drive on a network share but Windows Server 2012 won't let me. I get the error "The parameters are incorrect". When I try the "Backup Once" with all the same settings it just works... After a few…
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VSS DHCP Jet Writer Experiences Errors During Backup with WBADMIN

Summary My standalone physical server is running Server 2012 R2 Foundation. Two separate backup schedules exist, both using Windows Server Backup. I'm getting VSS errors from the DHCP Jet Writer during a weekly backup created with the WBADMIN…
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Backup Hyper-V VMs using wbadmin and iSCSI on Windows Server 2012

I am trying to setup a backup system at my work. We have an Windows 2012 environment with some VMs. We have a SAN and I tried do backups on a shared folder but, because of some incompatibilities with Samba versions, I changed this to iSCSI…
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Tell Wbadmin to never delete backups?

Quote from the article "Backup Version and Space Management in Windows Server Backup" on Microsoft TechNet: If the backup storage location is full, Windows Server Backup automatically deletes the oldest backup version to make space for the current…
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Scripting Windows 2008 R2 restore of files using wbadmin

The problem I am running into is the restoration of files using wbadmin; specifically with the -recoverytarget flag set. The line that I am running is : e:>WBADMIN START RECOVERY -version:09/19/2013-10:00 -itemType:File…
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wbadmin system state backup fails

When trying to backup the system state to shared drive the backup fails. This share is a samba share. The samba server is not on AD but I mapped a network drive so the credentials would be saved (Can't actually backup to the network drive, wbamin…
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Does "wbengine" of Windows Server 2019 support incremental backups when targeting network shares?

This is a follow up to things I've written down in an answer to another question: How does Windows Image Backup decide which files to backup? Windows/NTFS manages change journals on each volume, keeping track of which file has changed, how it has…
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Windows Backup / wbadmin errors | Source: SPP | Event id: 16389 | Increase SPP CreateTimeout?

After a reboot we encounter while the first backup (wbadmin) on a Windows Server 2016 these errors in the eventlog: Source: SPP Event ID 16389 Details: The writer's timeout expired between the Freeze and Thaw events (0x800423f2) Weak hardware…
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Windows Server Backup (WSB) on iSCSI Disk - space not freed after Backup deletion

I'm at a loss here and wanted to ask for your help. I take care of the IT infrastructures and backups of some external companies. This week, I've already had the same issue of no more space on the backup target disk, with two different clients. The…
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