Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

George Perkins — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:16:13 GMT

Between steps 10 and 11 you leave out very critical steps necessary to establish network connectivity. I don't know how you did it without.

10a. Open a command window.

10b. WPEINIT

10c. netsh int ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection" static 172.21.254.172 255.255.255.0 172.21.254.1 1 (replace with your IP addresses)

See social.technet.microsoft.com/.../e0e7e4b6-dd54-40e8-87df-076890ef12f6

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

Hairyyak — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:08:25 GMT

A couple of pointers:

For Hyper-V you have to use the Legacy Adapter to make this work.

You have use Netsh to set the IP address, the key, is to place the WindowsImageBackup folder in the root of the share that you connect too. Then its discovered and off it goes.

This will work through the UI or command line, but CLI, allows you to alter the machine config prior to first boot so you can remove the Legacy Adapter.

I've just used this to P2V an Exchange Edge Transport server and it works great.

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

Maz — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:58:06 GMT

Use the command prompt to initiate the backup rather then UI. CMD works for me most of time whereas the UI doesnt. The steps mentioned above work a treat for CMD restore.

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

Salis — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:52:17 GMT

Same Error

An internal error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error:

The format of the specificed computer name is invalid (0x800704BA).

I've tried using IP addresses instead of the name of the machine in the share, and can't seem to get around this. Any tips?

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

Salis — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:52:16 GMT

Same Error

An internal error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error:

The format of the specificed computer name is invalid (0x800704BA).

I've tried using IP addresses instead of the name of the machine in the share, and can't seem to get around this. Any tips?

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

LongTimeWindowsUser — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:11:32 GMT

Right on Rand, we have the same problem. Have a backup on a network share, but can't use it. I had the same problem with my laptop - had a network backup and couldn't access it.

The best part is that it doesn't even help to copy the backup to a local USB drive, it just won't accept it. So unfortunately you're best off with an expensive 3rd party backup solution, or attach local USB drives to all of your server you want to back up :-)

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

Rand — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:18:20 GMT

Nice job MS goldplating a looking up a SIMPLE back up set on a share. I'll add this (yet) as another feature that almost worked. I've got backup sets... but the UI cannot find them. Nice!

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

ichi — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:47:37 GMT

This didn't work for me with a 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM. I kept getting "An internal error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error:

The network path was not found. (0x80070035)", until I did this...

https://secure.backupassist.com/blog/support/how-to-restore-a-server-2008-image-backup-to-a-new-hyper-v-vm-from-nas/

I didn't remove the existing NIC, just added a Legacy one in the VM Settings.

re: Windows Server Backup 2008 Restore from Network Location

vo243 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:33:50 GMT

Question: I'm testing this restore capability and I keep getting an error after putting in the share path.

An internal error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the error:

The format of the specificed computer name is invalid (0x800704BA).

I've tried using IP addresses instead of the name of the machine in the share, and can't seem to get around this. Any tips?

Windows Backup/Restore from a network location

News — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:47:21 GMT

The Core Team has posted really helpful information on how to use Windows Server backup to run a complete