If your drive doesn't emulate 512 byte sectors look like it won't work at the present time. Hard to believe there's no solution yet from Microsoft at this late date.
See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsbackup/thread/889b01be-d333-4fc7-b005-e12b7b236ad7 and use the fsutil as shown there to see how your drives are formatted. There are certainly other online drive imaging alternatives that are free for home use but you may have to pay for something that works on a server. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: W2K8 R2 failing to backup to external USB HD I have 2 servers at home running W2K8 R2. 1 has a 3TB Buffalo Ext USB connected to it and the other has 3TB WD My Book Ext USB connected. I try having the built-in Windows Backup software backup each server to it's connected USB drive. Both servers fail with the error: The backup operation that started at '2011-06-20T14:29:53.105029300Z' has failed with following error code '2155348010' (One of the backup files could not be created.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved. >From the little amount of research I've done, Windows Backup seems to have an >issue with 4k sector drives. I haven't been able to verify yet if my 2 USB >drives have 4k sectors. I'm just wondering if anyone has run into this issue and have any solutions. Maybe a HD utility or free/cheap backup software to use in place of the built-in? Thanks, Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
