Homer-S Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hello, I try to explain it in English what I already placed in a German forum without any answer for weeks. When I first installed my WHS2011 with Server Backup it ran fine. After a while (some month) I checked the status and the backup was not done for several approaches. I deleted the backup plan and changed the external drive. (from 320GB to 320 GB). Than I tried to setup the server backup plan again. I give all my details in and when I click start for setting it up I receive an error message which is similar to "A file can not be created if it is already existing" To be on a little save side I did a single backup which was running fine. Do you have any Idea which file could already exist or how to solve this? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Does the old drive still show in Disk Management? If so, you need to remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer-S Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 The external drive does not appear in Disk Manager anyway. But when I setup the backup plan it is apprearing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drashna Jaelre Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Did you configure it from the dashboard? If so, try running "wbadmin.msc" on the server, or use "Windows Server Backup" from Administrative Tools. That may give you a more meaningful error, if it errors out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer-S Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 I did it first via dashboard and tried after that with wbadmin.msc. Both times the same "Error" Message appears with not more info. I am really totally lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Is the backup service running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer-S Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 I will check later back at home. Is this service called only Backup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Windows Server Server Backup Service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer-S Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 Yes it is running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 So a manual backup runs fine but scheduled backups do not run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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