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[ACraigL]

Hi,

I have an acer easystore 341 that I upgraded to WHS 2011. I also have drivebender installed. I get regular database corrutption on my backups, usually every other day or so, and not necessarily on the same machine (I am backing up 4 pcs). I've gone through drivebender support, but they said they don't usually deal with corruption issues. Not sure what else to do at this point except to revert back to Whs v1.

Any suggestions?

[Garry]

ACraigL, on 02 February 2012 - 06:54 PM, said:

Hi,

I have an acer easystore 341 that I upgraded to WHS 2011. I also have drivebender installed. I get regular database corrutption on my backups, usually every other day or so, and not necessarily on the same machine (I am backing up 4 pcs). I've gone through drivebender support, but they said they don't usually deal with corruption issues. Not sure what else to do at this point except to revert back to Whs v1.

Any suggestions?

Have you ran a chkdsk/r on all your disks?

[ACraigL]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I have. Both on the server, and various clients as well. I can't say for sure that I did so for the last failed client machine prior to the last error, but I did run it after the fact. I ususally see failures within a day or two, so I'll know tomorrow if this is the last culprit in the mix.

I'm wondering if WHS 1.0 was simply more tolerant? I don't recall having this many issues (any, actually) with the old version; 2011 seems more cranky.

[bobbyc]

Are your client backups stored on a standard partition or a DriveBender partition?

If your backup is stored on the latter, try moving the client backup folder/share to a non-DB partition.

Then run the repair utility. I'm not saying this is the answer, just something to try.

Good luck....

[ACraigL]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ultimately reverted back to WHS v1. I have no idea if the issue was with the unsupported WHS install on the Acer Aspire Easystore H341, the DriveBender service or some combination of both. All I know is I never had an issue with V1 and could not go 2 days without 2011 corrupting (and worse, not notifying me it was even happening).

I'm back to v1 and so far I've gotten 2 days of good backups. I'll let it roll through the weekend before I call it a win. Or a waste of time and money, if you want to look at it like that.

Two other observations on the revert...

• 2 of my clients (one Win7 laptop and 1 Vista desktop mysteriously started sleeping properly again. Seems the WHS 2011 client caused some issues there, at least for these machines. I have another desktop that never had the insomia issue, though.
  
• My HTPC blue-screen shortly after the install of the v1 client. I can't say that's because I uninstalled/reinstalled these versions without rebooting, or it's a result of a CPU upgrade I made about 3 weeks ago (which has NOT faulted until this client software change) but I will continue to watch it. No issues since, however, for the 2 days it's been running this way.

[ACraigL]

I'm officially calling this a win. 4 straight backups, no issues whatsoever. As much as I liked the 2011 UI, I like consistent backups better.