WHS Backup

zom247 · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:17

I back up my WHS with an external drive connected by esata. I started it last night through the connector software, turned off my normal pc and went to bed. When I got up this morning no backup had been done. I tried it again before going out this morning and it started ok. I then put my pc in sleep mode and went out. Just got back and started my pc to check the backup status and again the backup has not been completed.

I started it again and left my pc on and it's backing up fine now. It never used to do this before so no idea what's happening now. Why should I have to leave my pc on when the backup is going? Any ideas?

SiriusB · 7 Oct 2010 at 11:28

Just to be clear, you are backing up files on the WHS. But when your PC is switched off, the WHS backup fails?

PhillyDee · 7 Oct 2010 at 11:33

I am reading it as backing up the WHS, which only requires that the WHS is switched on.

SiriusB · 7 Oct 2010 at 11:35

As I thought, he just made his post a little wordy!

Not really used WHS, so purely guessing here, but perhaps you have accidentally included your PC in the WHS backup?

zom247 · 7 Oct 2010 at 11:50

SiriusB said:
As I thought, he just made his post a little wordy!

Not really used WHS, so purely guessing here, but perhaps you have accidentally included your PC in the WHS backup?

Too much info I think!

The PC is not included as it's a manual backup. I've done it many times before where I set it off and then shut down my PC and in the morning the WHS backup is complete. For some reason the backup now fails if I turn off or put my PC to sleep.