Re: Windows Home Server - jesus!

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Random test of my google-fu

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whssoftware/thread/da811c7a-1526-413f-bcaf-4b7cc82eb722/


http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/whssoftware/thread/04a5d1aa-b48d-403e-9b2d-8c97a4601469/


Bon chance, et bon soir!


2008/12/15 Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxx>

> :-(
>
> Hope the forums come up good for you - I can only begin to imagine
> how..disgruntled...I'd be if it happened to me!
>
> Sounds like you need some sort of backup server....oh wait.... :s
>
> Probably the last thing on your mind - - but WHEN you get it sorted,
I'd be
> interested to know how - I'm getting ready for a WHS setup at home,
and this
> is the 1st horror story I've come across.
>
> All the best
>
>
> R.
>
> 2008/12/15 Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>
>
>>   Yup - t'was one of the first things I tried...
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:
>> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
>> > Of Rob Iles
>> > Sent: 15 December 2008 23:28
>> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Windows Home Server - jesus!
>> >
>> > OUCH!
>> >
>> > Daft Q, but have you tried removing the 2 new sata drives?
>> >
>> > 'fraid I've not played with WHS enough to be of any help here
- but I
>> > do
>> > wish you luck!
>> >
>> > R.
>> >
>> > 2008/12/15 Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx
<phil%40avaddict.tv>>
>> >
>> > > Well, Rebuilt my server with Windows Home Server at the
weekend,
>> > have
>> > > been
>> > > copying data to it and adding new drives since Saturday
and I have to
>> > say
>> > > that it has right royally f*ck*d up this evening .
>> > >
>> > > I have 4 x 1Tb drives set up on it so far with about 3Tb
of data
>> > copied
>> > > over
>> > > and for some reason this evening it has decided that two
of the
>> > drives are
>> > > now to be labeled as "Missing" from the
storage pool (but listed as
>> > > available but "Not Added"), a third 1Tb drive
is still listed as a
>> > member
>> > > of
>> > > the storage pool but its status is listed as "Not
Added" even though
>> > it is
>> > > still shown as part of the storage pool. All the data
that had been
>> > copied
>> > > to the server is now showing as having "file
conflicts" and there
>> > appears
>> > > to
>> > > be no way of getting WHS to re-add the drives (which it
can still
>> > see) back
>> > > to the storage pool without erasing the drives first .
>> > >
>> > > . so as far as I can see that's about 350 movies gone as
well as a
>> > load of
>> > > documents that *SHOULD* have been "safe"
because they were set up in
>> > a
>> > > duplicated share under WHS and no obvious way to try to
recover the
>> > data
>> > > from the drives. The drives don't appear to be in any
sort of
>> > standard
>> > > format so the chances of recovery using the usual
suspects in the
>> > data
>> > > recovery world are probably pretty slim and of course
the file
>> > structures
>> > > are held separate to the files themselves so aside from
still
>> > appearing
>> > > teasingly intact if you browse the network shares from a
PC on the
>> > network
>> > > (but of course if you try to access anything it comes
back with
>> > "Access
>> > > denied" because the file contents no longer exist)
there's nothing to
>> > work
>> > > with on the supposedly "failed" drives in the
way of a roadmap of
>> > what
>> > > files
>> > > are what.
>> > >
>> > > As far as I can tell the catalyst for this event was my
adding
>> > another 2 x
>> > > 1Tb SATA drives to the server earlier this evening (not
to the
>> > storage
>> > > pool,
>> > > just to the server itself) which should be OK to do as
they're in hot
>> > swap
>> > > caddies.
>> > >
>> > > Well, I guess I'm now at the mercy of the WHS forums to
see if I can
>> > find
>> > > anything that will help get WHS to play game and
re-import the drives
>> > that
>> > > I
>> > > know are there still otherwise I'm going to be *MIGHTY*
p*ss*d off at
>> > the
>> > > loss of the documents which should have been safe and ye
appear to
>> > have
>> > > been
>> > > lost from drives which WHS seems to think have failed
but that it
>> > still
>> > > sees!
>> > >
>> > > Grrrrrr.
>> > >
>> > > Phil
>> > >
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>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rob Iles
>> >
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> Rob Iles
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