Thread: I Don't Have System Reserved Partition !?

Dear guys ,
recently i installed Backup Exec For Server From Symantec
my server is windows 2008 enterprise sp1

Everything is done when i will create backup jobs to do backup from local server disk drives and folders BUT ,
When i want to backup specified client's folder or disk after job start i will get this error

V-79-57344-65225 - A failure occurred accessing the Writer metadata.

I use the Partition Magic disc utility. The first step would be a 'merge' operation, recovering the entire hard drive capacity in a single primary 'volume'. Once that is accomplished, you can repartition the HD, allocating whatever space you wish to a 2nd 'logical' drive. I have never lost any files doing repartitioning with Partition Magic, but you should still back up your files. The safest way to back up everything is with Norton Ghost (Symantec), which creates a 'mirror' copy to an external HD or spanned CDs. You might be able to download Partition Magic as 'trial ware', and only purchase if you like the way it works.

Hope this helps.

Resource: partition-magic.org/res/create-delete-format-partition.html.html

Actually I had written a post on our official knowledgebase blog, where I mentioned different types network backup solutions. Anyway, as you are using Windows Server so I would recommend you to use R1Soft for a backup solution. R1Soft is a CDP backup software that provides data protection and disaster recovery for Windows and Linux Servers in the cloud environment. It has developed highly specialized drivers that find out what data blocks need to be copied before the backup process starts. That’s the reason it reduces typical server backup time from hours to minutes and even there is no matter whether database is large.


And if you are looking free solution, then try Abakt. Personally, I don't any experience with it, but it is free backup tool for windows. It is using a combination of advanced filters so you can select files and directories to compress, copy or move. You can pick files by creating filters that based on the properties of files and these file properties include file name, directory, attributes, size, age, and modification date. In order to take backup it creates a standard PKZIP archive using built in Zip library or you can call the external command line tool 7-zip to create compressed archives. Additionally, you can copy, move, or delete the chosen files. Automation is yet another facility of Abakt that allows to accepts command line arguments. You can use command line options to feed a task scheduler, and in batch scripts.


For more details you should consider below links

http://www.tucows.com/preview/318415


http://www.r1soft.com/

This sounds impressive, but a backup solution that only takes minutes?

If you use Windows Server 2008 enterprise SP1, it is normal that the system reserved partition doesn't exist even if you re-install the OS. The installation process of Windows Server 2008 doesn't create system reserved partition.