Windows Home Server

...Looks like nobody uses this thread anymore. I'll post just in case anyone reads this and has an answer.

Cloned the 'c' drive to another drive and also changed the sata cable.
Still getting very very slow backup, 11% in 40 or so hours.

Other 4 drives back up fine still.

No idea what can affect a backup even after the drive is a cloned copy.

Puzzled!
 
Well I'm still subscribed to this thread but didn't have any great ideas I'm afraid...

If you've narrowed it down to a single hard drive it rules out a network problem. Have you checked that c: drive on the offending machine is running normally otherwise. E.g. if windows dropped to PIO mode because of disk io errors I'm not sure if swapping to a cloned drive would reset it back to normal.
 
...Nope not running anything called networx.
I have removed the machine and re added it to no avail.

Still don't quite know what can stop one particular drive in a machine from backing up when others are not affected. Apparently 35% is when its about to start copying data across to the server.

Haven't gone as far as deleting the whole database yet.
 
Really odd problem has cropped up - WHS seems to have stopped backing up my computers. It seems to no longer recognise them on the network. In the computers and Backup tab, all machines are greyed out - as though they aren't connected, and no backup has been performed for ages. I tried renaming my laptop and reconnecting to see if it appeared as a new machine, but nothing. I can't find any way to get any of my machines to backup :confused:
 
I didn't notice this thread so posted the questions in the home server thread instead of here, but feel they are better posted in here.

Have bought one of the hp microservers and whs2011 and have the following questions:

* What AV are people reccomending, same as my win 7 Pcs - probably a daft question but...

* I am going to be using 4 *2 TB hard disks and was originally thinking of mirroring them, but as pointed out previously if the system backs itself upto a seperate disk then what benefits / pitfalls are there in doing either?

* I want to setup an email server and then have all the client pcs connect to this to retrieve their mail etc, is this possible with free software or do I need to buy something if so what??

* Do I need to do any planning with installing WHS or is it just the same as win 7?

Thanks for your help.

Matt
 
Right - a quick re-install of the client software on my laptop and it's back up and backing up! Phew - will do that with my Media machine as well - odd, but at least they are working again.

Matt - a lot of people don't both with AV for their server as it tends to be apart from normal use, I'll be going with Nod32 (eset) when I can swallow the cost of their server package. I'm still on the original WHS so can't comment on the deployment strategy for 2011, but I'd personally have gone for Raid 5 if it's supported as you get the best of speed and safely.
 
So one of my HDDs was marked as unhealthy. WHS console repaired it, but is it time to can it and buy a new one? Shame as its my largest drive (2TB) and actually the newest :(.
 
platypus said:
So one of my HDDs was marked as unhealthy. WHS console repaired it, but is it time to can it and buy a new one? Shame as its my largest drive (2TB) and actually the newest :(.
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Out of warranty?

I'm just moving my current WHS 2011 build from the HP Proliant server it's in to a new i5 2500k rig that I've built. On powering up one of my 2TB samsung drives is "clunking" and not detected!

Have managed to put it back into the old server and it's booting so am taking the data off it before I give it a good test to see if there is a fault. At least mine is in warranty until July 2013 if there is a fault!
 
It could be on the way out, and whilst it's repaired it now, it may find other errors - if it does I'd remove it from the pool and chkdsk it and/or use the manufacturers health test tools, with a view to RMA/replacing it.

Have a look at the event log on your WHS, IIRC it does a chkdsk every day at midnight. Are you seeing errors on the same disk regularly?
 
Quite a few ntfs errors in eventvwr since the date I moved my server to a new case, so I've obviously done something to the disk physically by mistake, or not plugged in a cable properly.

Running a chkdsk after a repair returns no errors.
 
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