WHS issue, not enough space, wtf

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Modred189

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So, given the recent news that Vail would be DE-less, I finally installed WHS on my franken-puter with the following specs:


C2D E4400
2gb ram
4HDs totalling ~1.5tb
Over wireless (ew I know)

ALL updates are installed for WHS.

So i installed everything and it was running according to plan. I installed the connector software onto my mainrig (see sig), and began the update process. It was going to be a large update (~350gb), as expected. However, it got to 20%, and kicked a warning out of the taskbar saying disk space is low.
Looks like the backup was falling onto one hard drive, the main drive wit the OS on it, but not the others. i.e., it's landing on the C: SYS drive, but none to the D: Data drive pool.


Any ideas?
I have searched the web, and saw the WHS FAQ above, but the link to the proposed solution is broken.
 
Yea. In MyComputer, it lists C as 20gb and theD Data drive as 1.44tb
 
I may have discovered part of the issue (playing around with running a VM on it), but after deleting 5gigs of data, it is still filling back up...
 
Yes, it looks like it. In the console, it shows the pie chart being 1.5 tb, 1.4 tb free. BUT none of it is blue (backups), all is white (free) and grey (system).
 
How about some screenshots of the console page that shows the drives and the one that shows the shared folders? Just so we can verify.
 
I have no idea what this setup is all about exactly, but if C fills up, does it just start diverting to D?
 
serverss1.png

Sorry for the crappy res. I'm accessing the server (res 1680X105) via teamviewer on my 11in. m11x.
 
What Update are you running (screenshot would help). Before the update 2 (I think it was 2) WHS used to first transfer all data to the OS drive, then re-transfer it to the other drives. This often caused the error you are getting, and thus all the (now) incorrect information about the OS drive needing to be your largest drive.
 
Your lost screen shot shows 129 GB total size and 1.43 Tb free.. so someting is abit messed up somewhere...
 
Angus said:
Your lost screen shot shows 129 GB total size and 1.43 Tb free.. so someting is abit messed up somewhere...
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No, that's normal. D: is part of the main drive and that's how much physical space that drive has. What's reported as free is for th entire pool. You don't actually write data to D: or at least you shouldn't. Instead you send data directly to your shares.
 
Check for large *.log files. It probibly a chkdsk.log file that continues to grow due to a problem with one of the drives. best way to solve if drives are known to be good is to remove the bad drive from the storage pool and re add the drive. Then keep an eye on the log files and see if the problem happens again.

Richard
 
Unfortunately it looks like a reinstall is in your future.

I had a weird problem where WHS was throwing an error that the console wasnt loading fast enough ( my words, forget the exact error) . Saw a lot of people online say it would be ok ( its a backup server for my main so I dont care if all the bells and whistles work)

About a month later it manifested into a huge problem. Reinstall now, dont wait like I did and do it after you transfer all your data to it.

As much as I love WHS, I really really really hate how MS's answer to everything is to just reinstall ( but, meh, its a watered down server so who knows, probably easier to just reinstall than to trey to fix)
 
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