WHS Issues; Network at Risk

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I've had a new WHS build recently, about a week old so far, installed WHS and PP1 right away, as well as all the available updates/patches.

Intel BOXD945GCLF Intel Atom processor 230 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard
Rosewill Silicon Image RC-209-EX PCI External e-SATA x2/ Internal SATA x4 1.5G HDD Controller Card
4 WD 1TB GP Drives (2 Drives onboard, 2 drives on the Rosewill)

I just finished transferring my movie collection and photos as well as backing up one of my computers. This was working fine all the way until yesterday. Today I just turned on the web feature and as I'm tooling around in the WHS Console, I notice the Network at Risk icon.

Two issues, both are file conflicts, one in the Photos folder, and one in the backup folder. There is about a dozen files listed under each section and they either have "file or directory is corrupted" error message or "invalid path to file" errors.

I rebooted twice just now and each time I rebooted, CHKDSK came on and "fixed" some issues.

But the file conflicts are still there each time and in fact, it looks like the files that were in conflict are now gone and replaced with more files. I'm afraid that it's going through all my files and slowly corrupting the whole batch.

Luckily the Photos are still on my comp, but some of the files affected by the file conflicts in the backup folder is going on in a folder that I have completely removed from my machine- if they truly are corrupt, then WHS is really screwing me over.

Backup indeed- any help? what should I do to resolve the file conflict issues? The links to the help for it does not list any resolutions. :mad:
 
I did low level HDD diagnostics prior to putting them in the server- all passed with flying colors.
 
Just remember that turning file duplication on in WHS is not a backup! Have all of your photos and other critical data backed up in some other manner.
 
Well, isn't the wholepoint of WHS to act as a backup repository? I'm not asking for much,but sheesh more corruption bugs?

[LYL]Homer- Are you advocating PC backed up to WHS backed up to something else? How many layers should we go around on this? Like I said,some of the stuff I have on there I have deleted off the main PC, but the factthat its spreading to my photos as well (which I still have another copy of) is disconcerting.

I waited until PP1 came out specifically to avoid a corruption bug and now this. In retrospect, I would rather have the first corruption bug as it is avoidable.
 
[LYL]Homer- Are you advocating PC backed up to WHS backed up to something else? How many layers should we go around on this? Like I said,some of the stuff I have on there I have deleted off the main PC, but the factthat its spreading to my photos as well (which I still have another copy of) is disconcerting.
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I thought the same as you until I started investigating Homer's answer.

Check out this article.

I waded thru it, and it looks to me like he's correct.

I'll hafta investigate further, but it doesn't look like the do-all-end-all program that I thought it was.
 
Well, I'm not even using the backup feature of WHS. I'm only copying data to the share volumes manually at this time. In fact,I have the backup turned off for the only PC thathas the connector installed.

The fact that it was fine for almost a week then it started to corrupt data without my intervention is the dissapointing part. And it looks like based on the links above that I'm not the only one.
 
Wow,

A drive just went "missing."

I'm in the process of removing it from the WHS span, but from a glance of the files "cannot be found" I'm looking at a loss of approximately 20GB of non-recoverable data. Most of it is old stuff, but I'm really pissed.

As soon as it's "removed" I'll connect it to a another machine and see if the data is still on there. But isn't duplication supposed to avoid this?

*&^&$) Microsoft. What a POS.
 
For the record, i have been having some "network at risk" warnings popping up in my WHS console every so often since the PP1 update, but i wasnt to concerned as it said it was only affecting one specific file. Subscribbed to see how this pans out. OP, mabye you should move this discussion to the We Got Served forums?
 
Update:

Removed the "missing" drive. Windows sees it fine and reports as good. Ran checkdisk and also some other utilities- reported as good. Checked to see if there was any good files on the disk- it was all corrupted. Clean formatted and the SMART as well as disk utilities reported the drive as good.

Re-added to the WHS span- the status went to critical as soon as the process was done. It formatted the drive, but could not add to the span and asked me to remove it again.

Removed the drive form the span. Drive is still installed in the WHS machine, but not used for anything. Now there are approximately a dozen corrupt file errors, across 2 share volumes. Much much less than before and of course, reporting a different subset of the files I have on there.

Although it looks like the rest of the files made it out unscathed, I have no faith on the files left in WHS. I tested several random files including some "corrupted" files, and they look and work fine.

Recap:

Placed ~500GB of irreplaceable DVD rips and lost approximately 25GB.
Placed 4.7GB of music (partial collection from a machine) - lost it all.
Approximately 25GB of other backed up files.
Luckily all my music, data, and photos are safely still on their respective machines. I only used WHS as a backup for them and not a repository(like the DVD rips). It looks like I'm eating my DVD rips.

So total lost in a day- 30GB of data and no explanation why WHS rejects that one drive- even works fine in another machine.

And of course I have no confidence in the data on the WHS. I better get started on re-ripping my DVDs.
 
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