WHS

[Perryg114]

For some reason my WHS (older version) won't backup one of my hard drives. One of my hard drives is showing and smart drive error and I need to back it up. However, WHS says there is a communication failure and it can't backup. It says the network connection has failed which is total BS. This is a big 1T hard drive and WHS has not been able to back up C or D drive for 54 days. D drive is the one with the smart drive error. I can open the last good backup and my other machines on the network are backing up just fine.

Perry

 

[Binky]

I saw a similar problem on WHS v1. My SSD was going bad and the WHS box refused to back it up due to errors. The drive was replaced and all was well again.

 

[Perryg114]

Yes I had errors on the drive. Windows is a dick about not backing anything up that has errors. If there is one file with errors on a 1T hard disk it won't back up anything. I scanned the drive and it worked. If you have a failing drive you need to be able to move files to a safe location. If there are one or two bad files who cares.

Perry

 

[ControlD]

This is one of the reasons I finally abandoned WHS in favor of another solution. I guess I can perhaps understand not being able to make a backup if there are errors present, but the diagnostics (if you can even call it that) for why WHS decides to stop backing up a particular client are almost non existent.

Then again, I suppose if WHS did actually make a backup of a drive with errors then the database would probably contain errors as well and then none of your client bakcups would be useable until you "repaired" (a fancy word for delete) the database and started over. Of course, you wouldn't know that the backups had stopped working until two weeks later when WHS decided to finally send you a message about it.

 

[Perryg114]

Well just using file explorer does the same thing if you are copying large amounts of data from one place to another. The first file it can't read it stops.

Perry