Error while creating windows server 2012r2 backup?

Question

Windows Server

Hello! When trying to back up Windows server 2012r2, I get the error "Volumes larger than 16,777,216 MB cannot be protected." Nobody can help solve this problem?

Answer 1

An old shabby MSDN blog post says that the problem is the number of NTFS clusters on the source volume, it exceeds 2^32, and this jamb was not cut by microsoft in 2012R2. A workaround is to create a new volume (is it a VM? If not, you will have to make a volume on a SAN or similar storage), format it in NTFS with a larger cluster size (64Kb ceiling), transfer data from the old volume to it and then backup the new volume.

Answer 2

Thank you! The server is physical, it is in a domain in which we do not have administrative rights. A month ago, everything worked fine, then MS SQL crashed, we transferred the database to a backup PC. 2 weeks ago everything was returned to the server and when trying to set up a backup using Windows, it began to give out such an error. You will probably have to resort to third-party programs. I installed Urbackup on one server, but I didn’t like that when copying an archive over the network, although I set a speed limit of 1MB / s, for some reason it did not comply with the limit and planted the network. Has anyone used this tool?