Folks, I need some help..... Our SBS 2008 server (Dell Poweredge t 300) is configured with RAID 10, 4x250GB drives on a PERC 6 i controller. It appears we have one drive that is on it's way out, it started producing errors earlier in the week and on Wednesday about 2 PM it took the RAID off line and would not restore with all 4 drives in a foreign state. After clearing the preserved cache, it would not allow the foreign config to be imported, the RAID came back with 3 of the 4 on and one rebuilding. After the server was restarted a chkdsk was ran and the process found quite a few error that it appeared to correct on the OS partition. The server came up online with users able to log in and get to the Church Management software but not able to connect to the Exchange server. I have not parsed through all the error events but there were several stating registry problems and we also do not have DHCP any more. I can not seem to get DHCP running at all.
The next bump on this road is the most recent known good backup is about 2 months old and there has of course been quite a bit of activity in the CMS over the 2 months, as well as some other stuff, but that data is stored on the data partition which had very few errors on chkdsk. The CMS data seems to be ok, and I can use it's backup utility to to recover it over it's data up to last week or early this week so if I had to use the 2 month old system backup to recover the OS partition. My real question is.... what are my recovery options? (1) A system state restore? (2) OS partition restore? (3) OS partition and system state restore? (4) other? As a volunteer server admin hack, I am turning to you guys for some assistance to help my overtaxed brain. -- Gary Sanderson Sound Volunteer Southmont Baptist Church Denton, TX "Good stewardship is less about how much money is saved than it is about how much money is wasted." - Anthony Coppedge ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
