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Brilliant!! This post made my day; same cause here... :-)

Thx, Nick

Looks like SBS backup Wiz does not like the FAT32 drive as a SOURCE so fails creating the schedule.  

Any idea what the 2GB partition is on the Dell server? We just ran into this as well and during setup it established itself as the boot partition. I would like to get rid of it but don't think I can.

I've got the same issue as Tim, Dell 2GB partion that's rocking the boat for native backup. Anyone tackled this yet? It does contain data, and it's labelled 'Boot'. Got a sneaking suspision I'll be rebuilding a server if I mess with it

I'll post this on Experts Exchange under ' Cannot Configure Backup Schedule on SBS 2008' if anyone needs to track it.

This 2gb FAT32 partition is actually only present from the factory on Poweredge Servers that were ordered with no OS.  The partition breakdown on the "no OS" configured server is:

partition 1: ~70mb Dell Utility Partition (type 0xDE)

partition 2:  2gb Fat32

During installation of SBS2008 at the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen, you can see the pre-configured 2 gb partition.  (NOTE: the actual ~71mb utility partition is not present on this screen; this is because the installer will not display partitions of type 0xDE.) You will want to delete the 2gb partition by clicking on "Drive options" from this screen.

This partition layout is only present on servers shipped with no OS pre-installed.

I hope this helps.

Aaaahhh! Thanks Nick! Exactly what I was looking for... Nothing like "Cannot Configure Backup Schedule on SBS 2008" to ruin a perfectly smooth new server setup... ;)

Wish I would of found this before I ordered that 1TB USB drive. Thanks Dell!

I have experienced the same issue and discovered that if you re-configure/configure the backup using the Windows Server Backup console instead of the SBS console the backup configuration works fine.

I would suspect that the issue is that the SBS console widget cannot handle the FAT32 partition but the Windows Server Backup console can (also more configuration options are available).

Thanks Rit!  I was about to install Server 2008 R2 RC and came up on the 70Mb partition (which I'm assuming is dell diagnostics and what not) but then saw the 2Gb FAT32 partition and was stumped.  Now I know I can wipe it clean (we'll at least that's what I'm about to do...)

I had this also on about 30 servers, each shipped without the OS.  I researched and found the steps and posted them at the link.  To date I have only 3 servers left and everything is good with the backups.  You'll also notice that it really isn't the ability not to backup it's an issue with the VSS writers attempting to be found on this 2GB FAT partition which aren't there.  We found that by deselecting the System State that the backups would run successfully.  Our backup solution is Commvault 8.0

www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm

Hope this helps.

TH, your tip helped me! It does work from the Windows Server Backup console. It just tells me that it cannot backup the FAT32 partition (which is fine with me) and then all works fine.

After configuring the Backup from the Backup Console, it is also visible and monitored from the SBS Console.

Great, you guys saved my night, i can go home now (-:

Thank you so much Nick ! Worked for me too, awesome !

Thanks!

Microsoft should update the support KB.

Dell is a relatively large manufacturer of servers and it seems that any "no os" server that comes from them will have this issue.