On 3/29/2011 10:50 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > Who knows how long a chkdsk of a SAN (or any) volume might take? If > someone tells you before it ends, and they're right, please ask them if > VCU will make it to the championship game next Monday. (I don't want to > know if they're going to win it all. I want to watch that much live.)
Yeah, I figured as much. :-) > I'm a bit late to this party. Did you ever state what the conditions > were that led to running chkdsk in the first place? My backup program is EMC Networker, and it writes the backup to this drive, and then clones to tape. The write to disk part has been failing. EMC Tech Support suggested running CHKDSK on the target volume, to see if the problem is a corrupt drive. So this volume is just a target for the backup software; it's not the boot volume, nor has any programs installed to it. It's just storage of the backup, so that if we need to restore, it's available from disk immediately, rather than waiting for tapes. And a daily script deletes the backups from previous days, so the drive doesn't fill up. We do this with a dozen other servers, including nodes in clusters. It's just this one server that has started having problems in the last week. Backing up directly to tape works fine. So the problem seems to be with the drive. ~ 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 [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
