Windows Server 2012 R2 UEFI Restore Impossible?
I'm trying to do something that is dead simple, but frustratingly it's killing me... One little thing, just trying to backup and restore Windows Server 2012 R2 on an Intel i7 PC that's in UEFI mode with GPT partitions on a SATA SSD drive. Symantec System Recovery 2013 SP2 x64 v11.0.2.49853 has no problem going through the paces of restoring the backup, but afterward Windows fails to boot. I even went to the extent of wiping the C drive (and all the partitions), reinstalled WS2012 R2 Data Center GUI (nothing else except a network driver and SSR), backed up freshly installed WS2012 R2 to an external USB drive using SSR installed inside Windows, wiped the C drive (and all the partitions) and restored the backup, but all that effort didn't matter. PC still won't boot Windows. I also tried restoring the 100MB EFI Partition first, followed by the operating system and Recovery partitions, still no help. The only odd thing I see is inside the WinPE SRD, About - Symantec System Recovery Disk shows versions that seem old even though it was just extracted from the latest v11.0.2.49853 download zip file (although the SRD .iso file date of 12/15/13 is older than the SSR SP2 11.0.2 update that supposedly fixed UEFI problems). Symantec System Recovery Disk Symantec Recovery Toolkit 11.0.0 Version 11.0.0.49496 Copyright 1994-2012 Please scroll down to access my troubleshooting documentation "Symantec System Recovery 2013 x64 SP2 v11.0.2.49853 UEFI Restore Problem.pdf" with a detailed collection of photos showing the entire backup and restore process. Do you see anything usual or something that I'm doing wrong?Please help because obviously I am unhealthily obsessed with this problem! ;-) Thanks! FWIW, I have reviewed these articles, comments and tips about SSR and restoring UEFI partitions: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO84141 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH177792 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH128386 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH207176 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200291 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200293 https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/ssr-201020112013-and-restore-anyware-uefi And, tried these suggestions too: https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc0000225/
System Recovery vs. Backup Exec
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Error EBAB0013: A test that safeguards the integrity of the program failed unexpectedly.
I will try to make this short: Brand new installadtion of BESR 8.5.1 on a 64-bit Windows 2008 Server (Standard); I'm using the BESR Manager to manage 13 Windows servers, with Windows 2008, 2000 and 2003 "clients. Here's the deal: I have new backups created once a week (Sunday) and recovery points created four times a day; once a day (I'll explain a little later), one of the jobs, on every Windows 2003 server, fails. The Windows 2000 and 2008 Servers always work, but the 2003 jobs will fail 25% of the time. There doesn't seem to be a pattern, a couple of days ago I was backing up at 8am, 11am, 1pm and 5pm; the 8am job would fail (five days in a row), but all the others would work, no problem. So, I removed the 8am job and guess what? Now the 11am job has failed (again, for all Windows 2003 servers) for two days in a row. I just installed BESR- this is not an upgrade for the management server or the clients. I've called Symantec support, didn't get much help. They've said to run checkdisk, defrag, which I have, but I still get this error. They say to stagger the jobs, which I haven't, because I don't see the point; these work 75% of the time and I've monitored the network traffic (this is all being done over a dedicated backup network, not an issue) and that's not the problem. Please help. Thanks!Former Ghost 15 user - Getting trapped in the SSR 2013 Trial
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I am gathering information about this error and trying to find similarities using this forum. If you are experiencing this error, will you please add your comment about how you are attempting to create and/or restore an image when you get this error, what you have done to troubleshoot it and/or get around the error, and if you have solved the problem, what the solution is. Any data you provide will be invaluable in determining the nature of this error.
BESR 2010 - EBAB0013 - Anyone seen this before?
Date: 1/14/2010 4:04:26 AM Notification Type: Error Priority: High Description: Error EC8F17B7: Cannot create recovery points for job: Recovery point of E:\, D:\, C:\. Error EC8F040B: Cannot create incremental recovery point of E:\ drive. Error E0BB0083: Unable to create incremental recovery point. Error EBAB0013: A test that safeguards the integrity of the program failed unexpectedly. CHECK failed, BitmapInternal::RunListBase<unsigned long>::RunListBase: d:\ComponentReleases\Base_Main\ws\Base/Dev/Bitmap/RunListBase.inl(158): mRunListCount < maxRuns. Error E0BB0083: Unable to create incremental recovery point. Details: 0xE0BB0083 FYI... next night's incremental ran without incident.