Once RDP’ing in to the server, I noticed the “Safe Mode” branding on each corner of the display, this was very odd. This specific server was installed using Server Core mode, so it has no GUI and is administered via command prompt over RDP, or via remote management utilities. Upon restarting, she came back up, was pingable, and appeared to be running fine, however the backup kept failing with new errors, the event log was looking very strange on the server, and numerous services that were set to automatic were not starting up. Now I know that VSS can be a little picky at times, so I decided to restart the guest VM. I woke up to a notification that the backup failed due to a VSS snapshot issue. It’s a fantastic product, and it’s working great, however today I had a little bit of an issue with a DC running Windows Server 2016 Server Core. Running Veeam Backup and Replication, a Microsoft Windows Server Domain Controller may boot in to safe mode and directory services restore mode.Ībout a week ago, I loaded up Veeam Backup and Replication in to my test environment.
