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Restart your server. If it's only a problem on the SAN LUN, then your boot volume should be OK. I don't have any experience with Networker, but does the backup service run on the same physical server we're talking about? On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ~ 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
