Just inherited a WS2003 server, running AD but with no second server on the network, which crashed hard a few months ago during an extended power failure. The former out-house consulting company sent a tech who was clueless, and the formerly-mirrored (software RAID1) boot disks (dual 80gb SATA drives) are now configured as "Basic" disks so mirroring is broken. The data drives are hardware-RAIDed SCSI drives (the F: drive). The system boots from G:, the first partition on Drive 1, while C: (1st partition on Drive 0) is labelled "Windows Swap". Drives D: and H: are labelled "spare". I need to re-establish the software mirrors for the OS, but before I do that, I want to get at least two good backups "just in case".
System is running BackupExec 11d to an external Dell RD1000 120-gb USB cartridge drive, so BE11d is configured to use "Removable Backup to Disk" folders. BE11d is problematic with this drive, lots of tech notes on Symantec's KB and forums suggest that BE11d doesn't detect when you change cartridges on any USB drive (that's another problem, to be dealt with later). However, most of the time when the backup kicks off, the OS wants us to reinstall VSS (Volume Shadow Service), once for each volume we're backing up. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Ideas welcome ... Client is going on vacation for a couple of weeks starting tomorrow, so I won't be able to go onsite to troubleshoot this at all; I'm in the info gathering stage. I can probably get more info today if anyone has any ideas. TIA! Angus ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
