Windows Home server main disk failure?

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What happens if the main disk fails on windows home server? If i have a 3 disk storage pool and a fourth disk as the main OS drive and the os drive fails completely and i have to put in a new one, does my storage pool need to be setup again?
 
There is a reinstallation option that will recognize your storage pool.
 
its not always smooth sailing to do a reinstall and keep the storage pool alive and active.

i have had my OS drive fail 3 times now....

i know i must have walked under a ladder and saw a black cat... ( i am no longer using GP drives for OS on my WHS)

of the 3 time, 2 times the reinstall worked.... 1 time it did not, for whatever reason it errored out and told me the reinstallation failed and to do a new install.... which sucked!

alway have a good backup solution for your data
 
yeah, i just did a RAID 1 for my WHS build... with 2x 320gb RE3 drives...

and i have a full backup as Vail allows server OS backups also.


I completely agree
 
Adidas4275 said:
yeah, i just did a RAID 1 for my WHS build... with 2x 320gb RE3 drives...

and i have a full backup as Vail allows server OS backups also.


I completely agree
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Wow you are using VAIL Preview refresh in production? You are a brave soul since they still have not fixed all of the data corruption issues.
 
RAID 1 might work, but I don't think a full disk backup of the OS drive would be of much use. From everything I've read about WHS, if the OS drive gets even the slightest bit out of sync with the drive pool, you are toast.
 
Metaluna said:
RAID 1 might work, but I don't think a full disk backup of the OS drive would be of much use. From everything I've read about WHS, if the OS drive gets even the slightest bit out of sync with the drive pool, you are toast.
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This.

pjkenned said:
Wow you are using VAIL Preview refresh in production? You are a brave soul since they still have not fixed all of the data corruption issues.
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And this.
 
yeah, no worried about it

I have offsite backup for all important data and I have offline backups of all data that I do weekly...

so the max i lose is 1 weeks worth of server data....

most of my weekly data is inputed on my notebook and then synced to my WHS via dropbox...

i am using vail b2 refresh and I will let you know when i see data corruption.

I have RAID 1 OS, data duplication, rotating offline HDD base backup and crashplan offsite backup and all data but my 600 movies are on a min of 2 other PCs in the house.

I really like Vail.... it works great with ACHI, RAID and such. it didnt even need drivers for my RAID 1 AMD/ATI 785g chipset array to install...

which is crazy coming from 2003 based WHS V1
 
I'm not 100% sold on the new DE tech yet. It will be better for sure, but after running WHS v1 in Hyper-V with 2008 R2 underneath, I am not sure if I will upgrade (OK let's face it, I know I will, but it is not overly compelling right now). Plus, I want at least one cycle of WHS v1 style data corruption issues to work its way through before using Vail in production. I may run it parallel with 10-20TB or so in the meantime... which I am already doing.
 
I had the drive fail to boot on my HP WHS and I could not get it to reinstall and recognize my drives. I spent a week rebuilding the folder structure and then dumped it back into the server. I wish there was a way I could specify which drives to duplicate data to. such as pictures on drive 1 &2 ISOs on drive 3&4

the good thing was I could just boot up windows or linux and copy the files over
 
yeah, i have thought about running 2008 R2 with hyper-V and vail but honestly... i have too much to do currently and just need something simple.

I have found Beta 2 to be fairly stable and I have not seen data loss or corruption (i am sure the bug is there, just havent seen it)

and i have no need for an AD or exchange and i really like the remote access and the concept of DE is great...

it is just such a PITA to slipstream controller card drivers into the XP/2003 WHS system or use a damn floppy....

i may have seen some data corruption in Vail B1 with some of my larger Blu-Ray rips... 10gb a larger
 
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